Technology - general
`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
New solar power material converts 90% of captured light into heat
03 Nov 2014
One of the technology’s attractions is that it can be used to retrofit existing power plants that use coal or fossil fuels because it uses the same process to generate electricity from steam