Heather Trickett, left, and Jill Soucy of the MIT Public Service Center take a break while sorting through 850 gifts collected for the MIT Giving Tree. Over 550 MIT community members participated in this year's program, which provides gifts to needy children in the Cambridge and Boston area each holiday season. Photo / Joshua Velasquez
MIT spinout Electrified Thermal Solutions has developed an electrically conductive firebrick that stores heat at high enough temperatures to power industrial processes.