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Students unveil eco-product prototypes
12-18-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)The MIT course assignment was wide open: Design something based on the principles of reduce, reuse and recycle, and develop it into a prototype product. The results ranged from simple mechanical devices to complex electronic machines.
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