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MIT Course Puts Tech on the Brain

Apr 02, 2013 | It used to be that passwords were just that—a word. Then they had to include a number, and many sites now require a special character like an asterisk or exclamation point as well. But as websites require increasingly complex passwords, they become increasingly difficult to users remember, creating a problem all of its own—a problem MIT believes neurotechnology can solve.
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Tesla Expects First-Ever Profit

Apr 01, 2013 | Despite today's news of the U.S. manufacturing sector's slowing growth, electric car pioneer Tesla Motors is expecting to post its first-ever quarterly profit after sales of its Model S exceeded expectations. The company anticipated selling 4,500 units its Model S this quarter, but sales over this past weekend have pushed that figure beyond the 4,750-unit mark.
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Google Glass to Be "Made in America"

Mar 29, 2013 | In a consumer market where the smallest computers such as tablets and smartphones are rapidly becoming must-have items, Google's new eyeglass-sized “Glass” is the talk of the town. But unlike most other computer manufacturers, Google will not be looking overseas to produce its bold new eyewear, according to a Financial Times report issued on Wednesday.
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Creating the Google of 3D Search

Mar 27, 2013 | What do you get when you combine 3D modeling with Google? According to manufacturing startup 3D Industri.es (3DI), the answer is 3dpartsource.com, their 3D geometric shape-based search engine. 3DI's tool will allow users to upload a 3D design to the search engine, where it will then be matched corresponding parts and their suppliers.
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Will Around-the-Clock Support Come in with the Reshoring Tide?

Mar 26, 2013 | Whether you're dealing with millions of dollars' worth of automation equipment or you've had to call customer support for a new laptop, chances are you've had to deal with off-shore support centers. While it may feel like none of these support centers are in the U.S. anymore, one recent study has indicated what may be a desire across the industry to reverse this trend.
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MIT Sets Robot Collision Course

Mar 25, 2013 | When we task a robot with moving its arm from one point in space to another, it is governed by only a few simple equations. But real-world physics applications are anything but simple, which has led MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to develop a new mathematical framework to unify collision with free space movement analysis.
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The Future of Driving Comes to GTC

Mar 22, 2013 | In the past decade, in-car electronics have evolved from cigarette lighter-powered TomTom to sophisticated infotainment systems that integrate your phone, GPS and even your iPod. But based on the automotive seminars that took place at this week's GPU Technology Conference, navigation and hands-free calling may be considered downright primitive compared to what is in store.
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Building a Better Hog

Mar 22, 2013 | Harley-Davidson is using both the film and gaming industries to help speed up their design time. By repurposing the GPUs that both industries rely on to power Harley-Davidson's design process, the motorcycle company has shaved months off of their design process.
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Graphene Comes to Flash Memory

Mar 21, 2013 | The single-atom thick material known has graphene has been at the center of both research and the Nobel Prize recently thanks to its ultra-thin build and unique electronic properties, spanning applications from water desalination to solar cells. But graphene's usefulness is not exclusive to these applications, as demonstrated by a new type of flash storage being developed with graphene at its core.
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From Weapons Production to Water Purification

Mar 20, 2013 | Branching out from its reputation for jet fighters and missiles, defense contractor Lockheed Martin has discovered a means for desalinating seawater that requires a fraction of the energy needed for current systems. The process works by filtering water through nanometer-sized holes in graphene – carbon membranes that measure in with a thickness of about one atom.
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Has Boeing Extinguished its Dreamliner Woes?

Mar 18, 2013 | A little over a week after Boeing began testing its new battery system for its 787 Dreamliner with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the company has announced that it expects to complete certifications within a matter of weeks, not months.
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Good-bye Gas Tanks, Hello Hydrogen Fuel Cells

Mar 15, 2013 | Considered to be a cleaner, more efficient way to power vehicles, carmakers have been working for years to bring hydrogen fuel cells to the public, but so far little progress has been made. However, Suzuki may be reversing this trend with the unveiling of a new hydrogen fuel facility.
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Proteus Offers Modeling Hub for Engineering Students

Mar 14, 2013 | Manufacturers may have already moved their modeling to the cloud, but in academia, the cloud has been largely overlooked, preventing the type of collaboration many professionals already take advantage of. This problem prompted a team of researchers from Nanyang Technological Institute to develop Proteus – an academic hub for for modeling and simulation.
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The Dawn of Virtual Factories

Mar 13, 2013 | From long-distance communication to virtual business meetings, the evolution of digital connectedness has not only saved business untold funds and resources, they have also fundamentally changed the business model of many companies. Now, as 3D virtualization comes within manufacturers' grasps, we are beginning to see a similar process transform factories.
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Microsoft Demos 3D Scanning Systems

Mar 12, 2013 | Although 3D scanning technology has been available for some time, high costs, cumbersome equipment and sluggish processing time has kept in from winning consumer popularity. So when Microsoft previewed its fast and potentially inexpensive 3D scanning research at last week's TechFest, the demonstrations were a quick hit.
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'Robot Brain' Goes Live in the Cloud

Mar 11, 2013 | European scientists have turned on the first part of a web-based database to help robots learn about what they encounter in the human world. The database, known as Rapyuta, is an online “brain” that describes objects robots have come across and is capable of performing complicated computation for the robot.
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MIT Cultivates Artificial Leaf

Mar 11, 2013 | Nature may have long ago captured the power of the sun through photosynthesis, but, with the help of MIT, man is one step closer to bridging that gap. With the recent publishing of a new paper addressing potential design flaws of an artificial leaf, researchers are helping to bring the artificial photosynthesis one step closer to becoming a reality.
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Creating Cranial Implants with CAD

Mar 08, 2013 | After suffering an accidental blow to the head during a soccer match, Jiahone Guo's brain began to swell. The odds of surviving such a trauma were about 50-50, but traditional skull grafts can lower these odds further by increasing the risk of infection. But new implants created through 3D imaging and modeling software are helping to improve those odds.
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Exploring CAE as a Service in the UberCloud Experiment

Mar 06, 2013 | The cloud-based experiment seeks participants from the HPC, CAE, life sciences, and big data communities, where we will jointly apply the cloud computing services model to compute intensive workloads on remote cluster computing resources.
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Beating the High Cost of 3D Printing

Mar 05, 2013 | If traditional inkjet printers have taught us anything, it's that the true expense of a printer is in the ink. Its cost per unit volume surpasses that of gold, oil, perfume and even human blood in most cases, making it the most expensive liquid many of us will ever purchase. In the case of 3D printing, pricey ink cartridges are replaced by spools of plastic filament.
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Additive Manufacturing Takes to the Highway

Feb 28, 2013 | For decades the automotive industry has designed every facet of its cars' inner workings around a heavy steel body. But as four-cylinder options become more powerful, bigger engines have fallen by the wayside, ushering in an age of smaller, more efficient vehicles. Helping this movement along its way is Jim Kor and his urban runabout, the 3D-printed Urbee 2.
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Location and Innovation Intersect on MIT's Manufacturing Map

Feb 27, 2013 | In the wake President Obama calling for the creation of 15 manufacturing innovation hubs in his State of the Union Address earlier this month, MIT has announced the results of a two-year-long study investigating how manufacturing and innovation can build upon one another in the United States.
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From 3D Printing to 3D Pens

Feb 26, 2013 |

New technology in its earliest stages remains the domain of the scientists and inventors. Traditionally, the stumbling block has been finding a manufacturer to invest in its production, but thanks to crowd-based funding initiatives such as Kickstarter, a new model may supplement or even supplant the investor setup.
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Stocking Tractor-Trailers with MPGs

Feb 22, 2013 |

According to an informational video produced by HPC for Energy, these trucks constitute 12 percent of the fuel consumption in the United States. Work done by the Navistar in concert with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory showed that a significant portion of that fuel consumption could be reduced by simple changes to the structure of the tractor-trailer.
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Manufacturing Meat: 24th Century Style

Feb 21, 2013 |

Characters in Star Trek frequently complain that replicated food just simply is not the genuine article. Soon, we may understand what they are talking about. Modern Meadow, a United States-based startup founded by father-son team Gabor and Andras Forgacs, is in the planning stages of a project that will provide meat, specifically beef, through additive manufacturing instead of the traditional raising and slaughtering cattle.
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