Here is a list of “idea labs” around the country/world. It is a list of places where they carry out work very similar to what is done at MIT Media Lab – lots of engineering, design and rapid prototyping/fabrication for projects that push the envelope of technology and its application to our lives.

USA – ACADEMIC

D-Lab/Media-X/CDR, Stanford, http://mediax.stanford.edu/

Infolab, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, http://infolab.northwestern.edu/

Information Sciences Institute/Institute for Creative Technologies, Los Angeles, http://ict.usc.edu/

Georgia Tech GVU, Atlanta, GA, http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/

Human-Computer Interaction Institute, CMU, Pittsburgh, http://www.hcii.cmu.edu/

CMU Entertainment Technology Center, CMU, Pittsburgh, http://www.etc.cmu.edu/

NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYC, http://itp.nyu.edu/itp/flash/Home

Berkeley Institute of Design, Berkeley, CA,  http://bid.berkeley.edu/

Four Eyes Lab, UCSB, CA,  http://ilab.cs.ucsb.edu/

USA – COMMERCIAL



MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, http://www.media.mit.edu/

MERL – Mistubishi Electric Research Laboratories – http://www.merl.com/

Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA, http://www.parc.com/

Eyebeam, NYC,  www.eyebeam.org.

Applied Minds in L.A., http://www.appliedminds.com/

Yahoo! Design Innovation Team, design.yahoo.com

Idea Lab, http://www.idealab.com/

Willow Garage, Menlo Park, CA, http://www.willowgarage.com/

Squid Labs, Berkely, CA, http://www.squid-labs.com/

Institute for Human- and Machine Cognition, Pensacola, FL, http://www.ihmc.us/

Accenture Technology Labs, http://www.accenture.com/Global/Services/Accenture_Technology_Labs/default.htm

IBM Research, http://www.almaden.ibm.com/software/disciplines/user/

Docomo Communications Labs, http://www.docomolabs-usa.com/

EUROPE / ASIA



Innovation Lab, Denmark,  http://innovationlab.dk

medialab prado madrid, spain, http://medialab-prado.es/

v2 rotterdam, holland, http://www.v2.nl/

interactive institutes, sweden, http://www.tii.se/

ars electroncia futurelab, linz, austria, http://www.aec.at/en/futurelab/index.asp

fabrica, treviso, italy, http://www.fabrica.it/

c3, budapest, hungary, http://www.c3.hu/

distance lab, scotland (former ML europe staff), http://www.distancelab.org/

art+com, berlin, germany, http://www.artcom.de/

meso, frankfurt, germany, http://www.meso.net/

Knowledge Media Institute, Milton Keynes, UK, http://kmi.open.ac.uk/

HumLab Blog, Sweden, http://blog.humlab.umu.se/

ITRI Creativity Lab, Taiwan, http://www.itri.org.tw/eng/

Sony Computer Science Lab, Paris and Tokyo, http://www.sonycsl.co.jp/

DFKI, Saarbrucken, Germany, http://www.dfki.de/web

Creativity & Cognition Studios, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, http://www.creativityandcognition.com/

Mobile Life, Stockholm, Sweden, http://www.mobile-life.org/index.php

Studio Creatif, France Telecom, France, http://www.studio-creatif.com/

HITLabNZ, New Zealand,  http://www.hitlabnz.org/

Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea, http://www.sait.samsung.co.kr/eng/main.jsp