Technology - general
Scientists build a better eye on our world
18 Nov 2014
Bacteria become “genomic tape recorders”
By Anne Trafton | MIT News Office | 17 Nov 2014
MIT engineers have transformed the genome of the bacterium E. coli into a long-term storage device for memory. They envision that this stable, erasable, and easy-to-retrieve memory will be well suited for applications such as sensors for environmental and medical monitoring
TV sound system for the hard of hearing
15 Nov 2014
Acoustical radiators send a boosted version of the TV audio towards one location, where a hearing impaired TV listener is present. Other listeners with healthy hearing are placed at positions where they do not listen to the amplification provided by the array
Robotic ocean gliders aid study of melting Polar Ice
15 Nov 2014
Using robotic ocean gliders, researchers have discovered that swirling ocean eddies, similar to atmospheric storms, play an important role in transporting warm waters to the Antarctic coast, perhaps causing Polar melt and rising ocean levels
`Eye in the sky' to bypass internet traffic jams
15 Nov 2014
New way to make batteries safer
By By Anne Trafton | MIT News Office | 11 Nov 2014
Cockroach cyborgs with microphones may help locate survivors after disasters
11 Nov 2014
Designed to help emergency personnel find and rescue survivors in the aftermath of a disaster, researchers have developed technology that allows cyborg cockroaches to trace sounds of survivors with small microphones attached to them
Engineers demonstrate how heat can transmit data
07 Nov 2014
Researchers behind the technology believe it could provide a new form of secure communication that could be concealed in background noise, making it harder to intercept or jam using conventional technology
Innovative thinker prints in 3D everything from nanoscale chips to houses
By By Julia Sklar | MIT News correspondent | 04 Nov 2014
3-D printing has two extremes — at one end is rapid prototyping, which allows researchers to design, print, and experiment many times faster than traditional manufacturing. On the other end is express, large-scale construction of single objects
Harnessing error-prone chips
By By Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office | 03 Nov 2014
New system would allow programmers to easily trade computational accuracy for energy savings