Ralph H. Baer (1922–2014) was one of America’s leading inventors, whose legacy comprises more than 150 patents, dozens of electronic toys and games...
Superbowl commercials can be funny, quirky, downright weird, and even inspiring. The Monday after the 2019 Superbowl, one of my colleagues asked me if...
Pokémon Go is arguably the most sweeping video-game phenomenon of 2016. Days after its launch in the United States on July 7, the game had broken...
Fifty years ago, in September 1966, an unassuming engineer heading a research group at the defense contractor Sanders Associates in New Hampshire hand...
I love being around inventors. I love the quality of their imaginations, but most of all, I love the kind of people they are, their personalities...
In 1966, Baer transformed people’s relationship to home television by inventing a way for them to interact with their sets, playing games like Ping...
Students all over the country have just headed back to school. But what to go to school for? ...
Video from the GameFest! program at Smithsonian American Art Museum. Watch musical group 8 Bit Weapon demonstrate their skills in using video game...
Inventor of the home video game, Ralph Baer and his co-worker Bill Harrison reenact their original ping pong game on a replica of his "brown box"...
