HARD knocks to the head are a constant concern in contact sports — and not just in football or boxing, where recent attention has focused. Millions of girls and boys play hockey, soccer, lacrosse and ... Read more
ESTHER BERNSTEIN, 6 years old with long blond hair, pulled on a pair of blue slippers with a gray tassel over the toe. She grinned. “Look, Mom! I like these princess slippers!” ... Read more
I’VE always been interested in gadgets and building things. When I was 12, I got my first camera and built a darkroom under a staircase in my family’s house in a Detroit suburb. We ... Read more
ESTHER BERNSTEIN, 6 years old with long blond hair, pulled on a pair of blue slippers with a gray tassel over the toe. She grinned. “Look, Mom! I like these princess slippers!” ... Read more
SAN FRANCISCO — Companies from Silicon Valley to Detroit to Germany are developing cars that park, steer and even drive themselves. Now the federal agency for traffic safety has said it wants to come ... Read more
AS a 14-year-old Boy Scout who went on backpacking trips in western Massachusetts, Gihan Amarasiriwardena couldn’t find a fleece jacket that would protect him from the wind. His solution was to make his ... Read more
LAST week, I glimpsed the future. I tried on Google Glass, the much-anticipated computer eyewear that lets you skim e-mail and shoot video. After some awkward fiddling, I managed to make the ... Read more
In March 2012, a video promoting a razor-blade business called Dollar Shave Club took YouTube by storm. It featured the company’s founder, Michael Dubin, who had spent the bulk of his career in digital ... Read more
TOKYO — As a small boy, Teruaki Kawai watched wide-eyed as American DC-3s took off and landed at a small airport across an inlet from his home on the Hiroshima coast. Japan’s golden ... Read more
“WE need some gray hair” once referred to needing someone with more experience. But I haven’t heard that expression in a very long time. In fact, many companies are intentionally ... Read more