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Tech Innovation on Display at South By Southwest Festival
The South By Southwest Festival (SXSW), held annually in March, focuses on innovative cultural breakthroughs in music, film, and interactive technologies. As a haven for burgeoning creators and...
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Liquid Metal Battery: TED Talk Offers the Missing Energy Link
MIT Professor Don Sadoway, an expert in materials chemistry, brought his astonishing battery idea to the recent talks at TED 2012: Full Spectrum. While most new battery inventions target spaces inside...
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Is There Room In Your Garage For A Flying Car?
Credit: Terrafugia Are you thinking about purchasing the Transition® Roadable Aircraft, the two-seat flying car developed by a group of MIT alumni? If so, it’s important to remember one thing: retract...
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Students with Energy, Meet Alumni in Energy
Energy research has become an increasingly important part of the MIT culture, and with students now pursuing minors in energy studies, they are often on the lookout for practical ways to use what...
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MIT Nets Five of Time’s Influential People
Time magazine’s annual list of the “100 Most Influential People in the World” is a heady group—and five MIT folks are sharing this stage with the likes of President Barack Obama, Comedy Channel...
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Power to the Powerless
The ReadySet Solar Kit Most vacation packing ends the same way: Cell phone…check. iPod…check. iPad…check. Wait…the chargers! In the U.S., charging electronic devices is an afterthought. So imagine an...
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Eleven with MIT Ties Make TR’s Prestigious List
Ken Endo PhD '12. Technology Review recently named its 35 Innovators Under 35, a list that honors some of the most compelling young minds working in their fields who have, as TR says, “the greatest...
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[Video]: Stephen Colbert vs. Professor Donald Sadoway
In case you missed it, here’s Professor Donald Sadoway’s Monday-night appearance on The Colbert Report, where he discussed his liquid metal battery, an invention he thinks could help bring about world...
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A Shade for the Earth, Tablets in Ethiopia, and More from EmTech 2012
The EmTech Conference, MIT Technology Review’s annual gathering of researchers and leaders in emerging technologies, took place on Oct. 24-26, 2012. The conference focused on innovative ideas with...
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MIT Fracking Study—and More Energy News
Fracking is a war cry of sorts, illuminating an environmentally dubious way to harvest natural gas for some or, for others, heralding lower-cost energy by more efficient extraction. MIT scientists have...
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President Obama Nominates MIT Professor as Next Secretary of Energy
Ernest J. Moniz (left) is recognized as an honorary member of the MIT Alumni Association in 2011. President Barack Obama has announced that he will nominate Ernest J. Moniz HM, a Cecil and Ida Green...
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Alumni Ingenuity—Now in Public Restrooms!
Have you noticed how hand dryers in public bathrooms have gotten more high tech lately? Super concentrated bursts of dry air that promise to work quickly and actually are noticeably faster than their...
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Local Warming Project Offers Smart Heat
The Local Warming installation above the door leading to Lobby 7. Walking up the steps to 77 Mass. Ave. on the evening of April 4, I encountered three strange circles above the doorway. Two were...
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“I’m A Nuke”: MIT’s Rising Generation of Nuclear Engineers
Guest blogger: Peter Dunn The phrase “young nuclear engineer” has been something of an oxymoron in recent decades, with the nuclear energy industry offering few openings for newcomers. Yet a new crop...
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A Woman, a Mountain, a Quest to Map Climate Change
On the slopes of Mt. Karisimbi, a 4,500-meter volcano in northwestern Rwanda, a lone MIT researcher is working this year to add new data to climate change research. She is Katherine Potter PhD ’11, the...
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Of Space Needles and Lasers: Alums Dreaming Big in Seattle
What if you could deliver power to villages after a tsunami or earthquake by shooting lasers from a drone? Or circulate small drones above a festival site so people could recharge their cell phone...
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Which Alumni Were Named to the TR35?
MIT Technology Review recently announced its annual TR35—the Top 35 Innovators Under 35. And similar to past years, the MIT community has a strong presence on the always-anticipated list. Christine...
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Crowdsourcing Philanthropy, and Reinventing How Millennials Give
Mix one part water, one part web 2.0, one part Madison Avenue, and one part celebrity dazzle. The result is charity:water, a New-York nonprofit that’s found success mixing these components to get water...
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Two Alums Dream of Tethered Aerostat Wind Farms
Benjamin Glass ’07, SM ’10 and Adam Rein MBA ’10 combined their research savvy in aeronautical engineering and business to launch Altaeros Energies, Inc. in 2010, a company whose first prototype fit...
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Can We Capture Energy from Speed Bumps?
Guest Post from the Ask an Engineer series, published by MIT’s School of Engineering Photo: Theen Moy “If you want to capture energy and use it to power something, it’s true that you can get energy out...
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