In the Media

Sprinkle Guns, Egg Washers, and Other Food Contraptions - The Atlantic runs an article on this year's 2.009 product design course at MIT, which is taught by David Wallace.

"To build such a cloak you need a material that will bend the incoming and outgoing light rays by different amounts — determined by the dimensions of the object underneath, explains Baile Zhang, an optical engineer at the Singapore–MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Centre in Singapore, who designed one of the cloaks."

"Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are providing an early look at what they describe as groundbreaking work -- the first lifecycle assessments of building and paving materials to consider economic as well as environmental factors." - This article originally ran in Greener World Media.

"Photography can perform many tricks. Until now, though, looking round corners has not been one of them. Ramesh Raskar of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology plans to change that. He and his students, Ahmed Kirmani and Andreas Velten, have developed a camera that can see what other cameras cannot."

"Ryuma Niiyama of MIT's Robot Locomotion Group wants to build a bot that runs as much like a human as possible, right down to the black nylon running shorts."

"Social networks could provide the key to redrawing the regional map of Britain, producing areas with strong social cohesion." - Research led by the MIT Senseable City Lab

Planet in the Sky With Diamonds - "This surprise invites new theories for how planets form, says astrophysicist Nikku Madhusudhan, a Princeton University astrophysicist who participated in the research while at MIT."

"Arizona State University's Judd Bowman and Alan Rogers of Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a small-scale radio astronomy experiment designed to detect a never-before-seen signal from the early universe during this period of time, a development that has the potential to revolutionize the understanding of how the first galaxies formed and evolved."

Economists Weigh In On Tax Compromise - MIT economist and professor Simon Johnson is a guest on NPR's All Things Considered, speaking about the tax compromise.

"Led by the SENSEable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it analysed billions of phone calls within Britain to find out whether the country’s internal administrative borders are drawn in a way that corresponds with how people actually interact."

"Luckily for spendthrifts, Kestner and his colleagues have come up with a solution: a wallet that warns you when you're getting dangerously carried away with your shopping."

"Convinced that consumers aren't in touch with their financial realities, an MIT designer has created a series of wallets to help you control what you spend."

"MIT researcher Mark Bear thinks that some forms of autism and mental retardation may be treatable with drugs already on laboratory shelves."

Blue Sky Thinking - MIT professor Moshe Ben-Akiva is profiled as one of The Wall Street Journal's list of five innovative thinkers working in the transport industry today.

"The study, by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Joseph Ferreira, Jr. and Eric Minikel, a recent MIT grad, is the first to link real miles driven with actual claims filed – the insurance claims the two examined totaled 34 billion miles." - Report on a study about pay-as-you-drive car insurance