MIT Winner Thinks Out of the Bag by Mark K. Anderson 2:00 a.m. Feb. 16, 2001 PST CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts -- At a press conference Thursday at MIT's Faculty Club, Brian Hubert held up an emptied bag of potato chips. To the rest of the world, this is what gets tossed into the trash can at the end of the lunch hour. To him, this is a waste of perfectly good computer hardware. In the quest to make computer memory as cheaply and efficiently as possible, Hubert discovered that aluminized substrate, like what lines most bags of snack food, can work as a substitute silicon, while a carbon polymer like the toner one finds in photocopy machines can serve as the circuitry. It's that kind of out-of-the-bag thinking that earned Hubert the 2001 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Inventiveness. More at: http://www.wired.com/news/gizmos/0%2C1452%2C41492%2C00.html "The kaboom! Where's the kaboom?! There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!" - Marvin Martian
