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Timothy Gifford and Anjana Bhat on Using Robots to Help Autistic Children

Movia Robotics CEO Gifford, and Bhat, an assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of Connecticut, use robots to help autistic children develop social and physical skills.READ»

SAGE's Latest Knockout: $95,000 Lab Rats

St. Louis's SAGE Labs has a radical new way to build a better rat for scientific study.READ»

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The History of Personal, Portable Music: Home Taping Is Never Not Killing Music

At this year's Pop Conference, Tim Quirk delivered a speech on the history of the Walkman, and how it informed our personal listening behavior up to the modern day. Just remember: home taping is killing music.READ»

Puzzle Piece: The Laptop for Autistic Kids

Teaching a child with autism can be an exercise in frustration--for both teacher and child. But designers at the Boston office of the design firm Continuum have developed a teaching aid--still in the concept stage--that could go a ...READ»