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Self-Assembling Sand Kicks 3-D Printing Back to the Future

By on 3 april, 2012 in In English, Innovation, Material, Research, The Future/Framtid

3-D Printing Is So Last Year: MIT’s “Self-Assembling Sand” Builds Objects Instantly IT SOUNDS LIKE SCI-FI, AND IT COULD EVENTUALLY MAKE RAPID-PROTOTYPING SEEM QUAINT. If Terminator 2 taught us anything, it was that a properly timed thumbs-up can make us cry. Also, autonomous, self-shaping blobs are a must-have on our checklist for the future. Now, MIT professor [...]

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Gammal gåta inom produktutveckling löst? Hur förvara solenergi

By on 29 november, 2010 in Research

Idea Peter Arndt. If solar power had a sound bite, a tagline, a motto, it would be ”use it or lose it.” That’s because technologies designed to harness solar energy — for example, photovoltaics that capture photons or solar-thermal collectors that harvest heat — are not designed to store it. The sun comes out and the electricity is [...]

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Brain Control – Just Scary, or an essential Innovation?

By on 22 november, 2010 in Inspiration, Research

Idea Peter Arndt. Ed Boyden is learning how to alter behavior by using light to turn neurons on and off. This by study how photosensitive proteins can be used to affect the workings of the brain. The equipment in Ed Boyden’s lab at MIT is nothing if not eclectic. There are machines for analyzing and assembling [...]

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Rosalind Picard

Ditt ansikte visar vad du tycker – inte dina ord!

By on 19 november, 2010 in Kvinnliga innovatörer, Research

En av talarna på Innovation in Mind i Lund 11-12 nov 2010 var Rosalind W. Picard, som bl a grundat Affectiva och forskar på MIT inom området Affective Computing. Hennes forskning har bl a lett till utveckling av programvara som mäter din puls via webcam, och nedan ser ni en film om hur ansiktsuttrycket visar [...]

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Transformers

By on 19 november, 2010 in Inspiration, Material, Research

Idea Peter Arndt. Programmable matter is a material whose properties can be programmed to achieve specific shapes or stiffness upon command. Here Erik Demaine explains this process. Från MIT. Learn more.

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The 6-percent solution: How corporations can reduce greenhouse-gas emissions through better planning

By on 9 november, 2010 in Boktips, Research

Idea Peter Arndt. Nearly 6 percent of greenhouse gases generated by humans are due to the flow of products to consumers. The good news is that corporations could significantly lower these emissions by systematically analyzing their supply chain logistics, suggests David Simchi-Levi, a professor in MIT’s Engineering Systems Division and Department of Civil and Environmental [...]

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