
The mission of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the world in the 21st century.
So it goes without saying that MIT's pavilion at the Expo Zaragoza 2008 in Spain is highly anticipated because it features digital water walls. They are created by closely spaced solenoid controlled valves that are accurate enough to "produce a curtain of falling water with gaps at specified locations" says MIT's Carlo Ratti, "a pattern of pixels created from air and water instead of illuminated points on a screen."
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