tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/219230500 2008-07-16 15:09:09 -0400 Lemelson-MIT Program <p>Martin Fisher is co-founder of the non-profit social enterprise KickStart. To date, Fisher’s low-cost irrigation pumps and innovative business model have helped to lift nearly 80 percent of his customers – poor African farmers – out of poverty. </p><p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/invent/a-winners/a-fisher.html" target="_blank">Biography</a> | <a href="http://web.mit.edu/invent/n-pressreleases/n-press-08LMA.html" target="_blank">Press Release</a> </p><p><img alt="Martin Fisher" src="http://web.mit.edu/invent/images/awards/fisher_160.jpg" width="160" /></p> 333 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/219209260 2008-07-16 14:01:20 -0400 Lemelson-MIT Program <p>Joseph DeSimone, Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry at of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a polymer expert who has inventions in green manufacturing, nanomedicine and medical devices. His lab-to-market entrepreneurship and commitment to mentorship are hallmarks of his career.</p><p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/invent/a-winners/a-desimone.html" target="_blank">Biography</a></p><p><a href="http://mit.edu/invent/n-pressreleases/n-press-08LMP.html" target="_blank">Press Release</a></p><p><img alt="DeSimone" src="http://mit.edu/invent/n-pressreleases/downloads/desimonesmall.jpg" width="180" /></p><p>?</p> 327 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/219190000 2007-04-18 21:09:59 -0400 MIT Video Productions Clinical trials have already shown that an MIT robotic arm can help stroke patients regain movement faster. Now MIT pioneers in the field of robotic therapy, Professor Neville Hogan and researcher Hermano "Igo" Krebs, are hoping a robotic gym full of machines targeted at different parts of the body will significantly improve stroke patients' movement in arms, wrists, hands, legs and ankles.This video produced by MIT Video Productions for the MIT News Office in 2005 documents MANUS, the MIT Robotic Rehabilitation Project and the recently developed Anklebot<br />. 304 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/219168940 2008-01-27 14:29:02 -0500 chosetec This video describes a small project by Brian Chan and Theresa Guo at the Hatsopoulos Microfluids Laboratory (Building 3, 2nd floor). It is a machine that flaps its wings and indicates the amount of lift generated. The data will be useful to determine how the force varies with a changing wing stroke angle, and thus help us design better flying machines. <p>Music by Seth Friedman </p><p>Advisor: Anette Hosoi </p><p> Animator, Director, Writer, Brian Chan <br />Engineers/Researchers: Brian Chan, Theresa Guo <br />The Hoverbot designed by Brian Chan, <br />built by Theresa Guo and Brian Chan. </p><p>To learn more about fluid dynamics research at MIT, please visit: </p><p>http://web.mit.edu/fluids/www/ <br />http://scripts.mit.edu/~pekowiki/blaise/index.php?title=Main_Page </p> 277 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/219147780 2007-08-08 10:50:13 -0400 Lemelson-MIT Program Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams are teams of high school students, teachers, and mentors that receive grants up to $10,000 each to invent technological solutions to real-world problems. The InvenTeam initiative aims to excite high school students about invention through science, technology, engineering, and math; empower students to problem solve; and encourage an inventive culture in schools and communities.<br><br>The 2007 InvenTeams Odyssey was hosted at MIT by the Lemelson-MIT Program during June 20-22.<br><br>Visit http://web.mit.edu/inventeams/ for more information.<br><br>Music by Sbbrucey, available at http://www.sectionz.com. This video complies with the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license, viewable at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ . 202 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/219128420 2007-08-08 10:41:27 -0400 Lemelson-MIT Program Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams are teams of high school students, teachers, and mentors that receive grants up to $10,000 each to invent technological solutions to real-world problems. The InvenTeam initiative aims to excite high school students about invention through science, technology, engineering, and math; empower students to problem solve; and encourage an inventive culture in schools and communities.<br><br>The 2007 InvenTeams Odyssey was hosted at MIT by the Lemelson-MIT Program during June 20-22.<br><br>Visit http://web.mit.edu/inventeams/ for more information.<br><br>Music by STE316, available at http://www.sectionz.com. This video complies with the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license, viewable at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ . 142 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/219109420 2008-12-20 13:33:11 -0500 MIT Museum Arthur Ganson's Machine with Wishbone sculpture. 97 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/219087080 2007-07-03 14:59:36 -0400 Lemelson-MIT Program The <a href="http://web.mit.edu/inventeams/teams/2007/acton.html" target="_blank">Acton-Boxborough Regional High School</a> from Acton-Boxborough, Mass., received a 2007 <a href="http://web.mit.edu/inventeams/" target="_blank">InvenTeam</a> grant from the Lemelson-MIT Program to invent a resuable fire-fighting grenade, dubbed the DeCombuster, to supress fires. The InvenTeam presented its invention at MIT in June 2007. 784 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/219068040 2008-07-28 09:59:51 -0400 Lemelson-MIT Program The <a href="http://web.mit.edu/inventeams/teams/2007/bromfield.html" target="_blank">Bromfield School</a> from Harvard, Mass., received a 2007 <a href="http://web.mit.edu/inventeams/" target="_blank">InvenTeam</a> grant from the Lemelson-MIT Program to create a memory-assist device for people with Alzheimer's, dementia, and other memory-related illnesses. The InvenTeam exhibited its invention at a showcase held at MIT in June 2007. 221 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/219048960 2008-07-24 16:49:30 -0400 Lemelson-MIT Program <a href="http://web.mit.edu/inventeams/teams/2007/merrimack.html" target="_blank">Merrimack High School</a> from Merrimack, N.H., received a 2007 <a href="http://web.mit.edu/inventeams/" target="_blank">InvenTeam</a> grant from the Lemelson-MIT Program to invent a solar-powered biodiesel processor, which it used and tested as fuel in an old Air Force bus that the InvenTeam acquired. The InvenTeam exhibited its invention at a showcase held at MIT in June 2007. 252