June/July 2012 Issue
Taking Batteries Outside the Box
CITRIS' New i-Lab: Investing in an Inventive Environment

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Dear Friends of CITRIS, 

 

CITRIS is a prolific generator of great ideas. From the students whose innovations fuel our Big Ideas competition each spring to the faculty and staff applying IT to California's most pressing urban, medical, and resource-management challenges, I am humbled by the caliber of the minds I have the pleasure to work with. But CITRIS is about more than just cranking out brilliant ideas; our mission is to see those ideas bear fruit in the real world.  

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Taking Batteries Outside the Box

by Gordy Slack

 

Efforts to create an inexpensive sticker that can monitor temperature will likely employ battery technology developed by Christine Ho and incubated at CITRIS's Marvell Lab. The device could be stuck on the side of a package of perishable food or pharmaceuticals to record the product's temperature over time so consumers can be assured they are buying a safe product.   Read the full article >> 

 


by Gordy Slack

 

The 1,300-square-foot room on the first floor of Sutardja Dai Hall smells of fresh paint and possibility. It is empty now, except for two large crates containing heavy equipment destined for the Marvell Nanolab, three stories above. But listening to Dan Chapman, Curator of the Tech Museum and Senior Artist at CITRIS, describe plans for the space, it is easy to picture the room, the future site of the CITRIS Invention Lab, or i-Lab, humming with busy engineers and the devices they have dreamed up. The future will unfold here as those dreams take shape in resin, wood, and molded plastic.

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