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← Older postsMIT students develop Soft Rocker outdoor seating that charges your devices
May 11, 2011Relaxing in the outdoors now gets a lot more productive, with the MIT Soft Rocker outdoor seating arrangement. These cleverly and ingeniously designed seats use the human power of balance to create an interactive 1.5 axis 35 watt solar tracking … Continue reading3
Posted in Gadgets and Tech | Tagged MIT, Outdoor_Seating | Leave a commentJust 10% of a battery’s life is lost, after 1,500 recharges according to MIT
January 6, 2011Skeptics always try searching for the tiniest black dots on a white surface. And mostly, their doubts confirmed positively. And so was the case with skeptics challenging the battery lives of electric cars. These cars that will be the dawn … Continue reading3
Posted in Transport | Tagged MIT | Leave a commentThe winner of MIT’s SENSEable City Lab, the Copenhagen Wheel turns your cycle hybrid!
August 16, 2010The 2010 James Dyson Award has been hooked up by a team of students at MIT’s SENSEable City Lab who came up with the Copenhagen Wheel, an innovation created to convert existing full sized bikes into a human / electric … Continue reading3
Posted in Transport | Tagged Bicycle, Copenhagen, MIT | Leave a commentEco-friendly aircrafts, with 70% less fuel consumption than present day Boeings by MIT
May 18, 2010The skies above us go greener by the day as the aviation industry constantly upgrades to cleaner and more eco-friendly and environment-friendly means to have its passengers flying. The guys at MIT have come up with designs for a green … Continue reading3
Posted in Transport | Tagged Aircraft, Eco-Friendly, Fuel_Consumption, MIT | Leave a commentSolar panels thin as a sheet of paper being developed by MIT
May 6, 2010If this sheet looks like a piece of paper to you and you’re itching to write on it, do not be mistaken! The sheet of “paper” is actually a solar panel! The guys at MIT after loads of brain-wrecking and … Continue reading3
Posted in Alternative Energy | Tagged MIT, Solar_panel | Leave a commentMechanical muscles, shape-memory actuators, being developed by MIT
April 8, 2010Technological developments boasting better efficiency are springing up everywhere. The guys at MIT have come up with an innovation to “muscle up” electronic devices in the future. These shape-memory alloys on heating change shape, acting as mechanical muscles that produce … Continue reading3
Posted in Gadgets and Tech | Tagged Mechanical, MIT | Leave a commentMIT develops solar powered portable desalination unit
March 24, 2010Though water is abundantly available on our planet, drinking water is still short in supply. This is due to the fact that current desalination techniques are not feasible to be used on a large scale. However, a new approach called … Continue reading3
Posted in Other Stuff | Tagged MIT | Leave a commentMIT to encourage unfit people into cycling with new motor wheels
December 17, 2009Copenhagen is not hyped when you say that the number of cyclists here outnumber he car owners. The big environmental conferences take place here, and yet this conscious city still takes measures to go even more environment friendly. Here, where … Continue reading3
Posted in Transport | Tagged Bicycle, Copenhagen, Eco-Friendly, MIT | Leave a commentMIT Lab Finds Way to Make Gadgets More Efficient by Tapping Waste Heat energy
November 27, 2009Right from power plants to cars to cell phones much of coveted energy tapped from burning fossil fuels gets wasted as heat energy that is released from them all. MIT labs are working to tap this very heat energy and … Continue reading3
Posted in Gadgets and Tech | Tagged "carbon footprint", "energy saving", "fossil fuels", "heat energy recycle", "heat energy", "quantum dot semiconductor", "thermal diodes", efficiency, Gadgets, MIT, research, technology | Leave a commentPanasonic in deal with MIT for Australia’s Global Green Challenge
August 5, 2009See this is what I call a green marketing campaign. It is sure to win you bills and support and you are also doing a good deed for the environment. Panasonic has taken lead to support a Solar Electric Vehicle … Continue reading3
Posted in Awareness and Hype | Tagged Australia, MIT, Panasonic | Leave a comment ← Older posts