Though it has been up for a couple months, we thought we would urge any and all who have not yet visited to be sure they catch this excellent exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.  Paola Antonelli and the Department of Architecture and Design curated this sweeping survey of design from the perspective of time, selecting pieces that represent both the short and long views.

Make sure you check it out, as well as the other great exhibitions at MoMA.

Last week a feature article on Inhabitat: Six Inspiring Examples of Groundbreaking Green Technology.  Solar Ivy appears on that list alongside several other excellent innovations.  Thanks to Yuka Yoneda and Inhabitat for the acknowledgement.

Co-founder Sam Cochran directed design for an award-winning diagnostic tool for use by doctors in underdeveloped regions where access to laboratory facilities is inconsistent or nonexistent.  The device, designed under Prof. Samuel Sia of Columbia University, uses microfluidics to test for an array of diseases, including sexually-transmitted infections and was field-tested in cooperation with the Rwandan Government.

(image via MIT Technology Review)

On December 22, 2009 they returned to SMIT’s offices for another video segment on SMIT’s “fashionable” solar panels.

Grow and Solar Ivy were featured in the exhibit Kitchen Ecology at Dwell on Design in Los Angeles, 2009.

(image via designboom)

FOX Business News visited to SMIT’s studio in Brooklyn to talk to co-founders Sam and Sita during their Start-Up Summeron August 4, 2009.

Green Diary, on July 3, 2009 did a feature piece about GROW’s photo-piezo-electricity-generating panels.

April 2009, Leeser Architecture’s competition-winning designfor a five-star hotel in Zayed Bay, Abu Dhabi includes GROW as a key facade feature.(image via bustler)

Maison a Part, a French architecture and design magazine and database featured SMIT in December 2008.

Discovery.com’s Planet Green interviewed SMIT co-founder, Teresita Cochran in December of 2008 about the origins of the company and the inspiration behind GROW and Solar Ivy.