MIT D-Lab featured at MIT Museum in Essential MIT exhibit

MIT Museum visitors viewing the D-Lab exhibits, which include a clay pot cooler, a Saathi pad, biomass briquetting technlogies, and the SurgiBox. Photo: MIT D-Lab
MIT Museum visitors viewing the D-Lab exhibits, which include a clay pot cooler, a Saathi pad, biomass briquetting technlogies, and the SurgiBox. Photo: MIT D-Lab

News | Oct 19, 2022 | MIT D-Lab

MIT D-Lab

Earlier this month, the new MIT Museum opened in Cambridge's Kendall Square. The first exhibit as you enter the main galleries on the second floor is Essential MIT and the first display, "Designing Involvement," features four MIT D-Lab projects along with texts and videos.

Following, is a peek at the exhibits.

Display case with clay pot cooler and Saathi menstrual pad
Left: Clay pot cooler for fruits and vegetables for use in arid climates from the D-Lab Evaporative Cooling Research Group. Right: D-Lab spinout Saath's biodegradable sanitary pad made from banana fiber. Photo: MIT D-Lab
An assortment of hand tools and materials for charcoal briquette making and a backpace with a SurgiBox inflatable surgical environment.
Left: Materials and devices for the production of biomass charcoal briquettes from the D-Lab Biomass Fuels and Cookstoves Research Group. Right: The SurgiBox inflatable surgical theater. Photos: MIT D-Lab

 

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Nancy Adams, MIT D-Lab Communications Officer

Topics
Biomass Fuels & Cookstoves
Evaporative Cooling for Vegetable Preservation
SurgiBox
MIT D-Lab students & alumni
Saathi Pads