♪ emily: i'm emily chang and this is a special edition of bloomberg west from the storied m.i.t. media lab in cambridge, massachusetts. it's the birthplace of so many innovations like touchscreen devices and gps. we have spent the last few days speaking to the entrepreneurs and investors driving the startup scene and heard from the cities established layers in robotics and i/o tech. now we spend the next hour going behind the scenes to where the ideas are conceived. the media lab specializes in anti-disciplinary thinking, looking for misfits and rebels, working on ground breaking products no one else would take a risk on. other ideas that got their start here, the precursor to google street view and one narrow by all it is here just one mark zuckerberg's breakthrough price. the media lab is pioneering research in biology, agriculture, urban living and more.