Demo Highlights

Techfair 2012 promises to bring to MIT some fascinating demos! Below are a sampling of booths we're particularly excited for. For a complete list of exhibitors, check out this page.

Company Demo Highlights

• Oblong Bringing gesture-based interfaces, a la Iron Man, ubiquitous in every home. Look for their futuristic Kinect setup!
• Kiva Featuring their autonomous warehouse robot, one of hundreds that coordinate as an army to revolutionize the way inventory moves around warehouses.
• Fitbit Showcasing Fitbit devices that measure and upload health metrics wirelessly for easy access anywhere.
• Aurora Flight Sciences Observe a mini Skate drone fly and maneuver around Aurora’s booth.
• Nyx Devices Presenting novel, thin-film, respiration sensor that can be applied to any fabric to diagnose and treat sleep disorders.
• Motion Math Bringing several iPads with their latest, award-winning and addicting math education games. Come play!
• Under Armour See the E39 performance shirt that tracks and records wearer’s movements and biometrics to make training more effective.
• Nest This next-generation “Learning Thermostat” learns what temperatures you like and when you like them. It adapts to your lifestyle and keeps you comfortable while lowering your energy bill.
• Lytro See for yourself the camera that’s set to revolutionize photography by letting users focus a photo after it’s taken.
• Texas Instruments (TI) Presenting their new Me-D technology that revolutionizes mobile-user interaction by creating three dimensions of interaction-- a natural gesturing dimension, a glasses-free 3D dimension, and a projected and interactive dimension.
• Microsoft Try out the highly anticipated Windows 8 tablets.

MIT Exhibitor Demo Highlights

• Swyp Transfer files between Apple devices by literally swiping one file across the screen in the direction of the other. File-sharing has never been so easy.
• Servo Subwoofer Precision bass that maximizes euphony by measuring velocity and adjust accordingly.
• Electric violin Handcrafted electric violins made from acrylic.
• Bullet Self-balancing electric unicycle that can travel up to six miles on a single charge.
• DDR Tetris Control a life-sized Tetris game with your DDR skills!