Sanitation Solution Wins Innovation Prize

A group of MIT business students’ plan to help solve the global sanitation crisis by converting human waste into energy, fertilizer and profit wins $100,000 entrepreneurship award.

Entire program – January 5, 2011

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MIT students launch a project to help Haitains find work with NGOs in their country;Also, why a vulture caught in Saudi Arabia ended up under suspicion of spying for Israel;Plus, new European music that harks back to the heyday of Motown in America. Download MP3

A new plan for job growth in Haiti

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Not many people in Haiti can find jobs with relief organizations. A group of MIT students have started a project to change that. The World’s technology correspondent, Clark Boyd, reports. Download MP3

MIT’s Konbit

MIT develops smartphone-based eye exam

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MIT’s Media Lab is working on a project that could help people in poor countries get their eyes tested using a cellphone. Anchor Marco Werman travelled to the Media Lab to interview researcher Ramesh Raskar and get his eyes checked using the new technology. Download MP3

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Tech Podcast: M-PESA, Y2K10, and Call of Duty

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And…we’re back, ready for a whole new year of fun and frolics on the Tech Podcast. The centerpiece for this episode is a conversation with Tavneet Suri of MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Suri, a Kenyan herself, has been studying the impact of the mobile money transfer system called M-PESA on her native country. We’ve also got two items on tech and Iran, some news about a Y2K10 bug in Germany, and some Russians who are riled about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II.

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Tech Podcast 271: Drones, tech in crisis, and the Copenhagen Wheel

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It’s a nice line-up for the last podcast of 2009. We’ve got an item on the MIT SENSEable City Lab’s Copenhagen Wheel project. Turn your ordinary bike into an e-bike. Cool. Also, we revisit drones, and we hear all about the pluses and minuses of technologies in times of crisis, political and otherwise. PHOTO: Max Tomasinelli

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