Link About It: This Week’s Picks
Challenging the male gaze, an oral history of house music, an AR headset that locates hidden items and more
Tag: MIT
Find all stories on MIT in this tag archive.
Via news.mit.edu
Ultra-Thin Solar Cells Turn Any Surface Into a Power Source
Researchers at MIT have developed lightweight yet durable solar cells that can be applied to any surface to create a power source. Thinner than a strand of human hair and one-hundredth the …
Via fastcompany.com
New Portable Device Can Turn Saltwater Into Drinking Water
Only 0.5% of Earth’s 326 million trillion gallons of water is safe to drink. To make water more accessible and consumable, researchers at MIT developed a portable device that converts saltwater into …
Via designboom.com
The Ionic Wind Aircraft Flies Without Moving Parts
A team of MIT engineers, led by Steven Barrett (an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the academic institution), have invented the Ionic Wind Aircraft—a first-of-its-kind flying vessel that employs no …
Link About It: This Week’s Picks
Insect-like drones, clear nuclear fusion, cosmic collisions and more from around the web
Via news.mit.edu
Flying Microrobots Are Upgraded With New Artificial Muscles
Over the years, researchers at MIT have been developing aerial microrobots—tiny, insect-sized robots that can fly around and perform tasks—and have just revealed a big upgrade. The latest version utilizes a new …
Best of CH 2020: Link About It
Space news, sonic time capsules, shapeshifting material, people-powered initiatives and more
Link About It: This Week’s Picks
Spectacular space images, a flying car, tech advances in healthcare and more in our look around the web
Via designboom.com
MIT’s AI Detects Asymptomatic COVID-19 Coughs Through Sound
“There’s, in fact, sentiment embedded in how you cough,” Brian Subirana, a research scientist at MIT, tells designboom. This knowledge informs a new AI that Subirana’s lab is currently developing for use …
Link About It: This Week’s Picks
Japan's 1,000-year-old cherry tree, Shel Silverstein's houseboat, NASA's remote teams and more from around the web