MIT Shock Absorbers Harness Speed Bump Energy For Better Fuel Economy. While prices still haven’t been revealed for the GenShocks, they’re estimated to cost more than usual shock absorbers, ...

A team of undergraduate students at MIT have developed a shock absorber that actually generates electricity from bumps in the road. This results in up to a 10 percent improvement in overall ...

When you hit a bump, your shock absorbers damp the wheel’s motion by converting its kinetic energy into heat via the shearing of fluid in the shocks. That heat gets expelled into the air and is ...

Zack Anderson, the 21-year-old MIT student who has been the subject of a recent controversial lawsuit and restraining order, is putting transit card hacking behind him. The electrical engineering ...