Guitar Hero is a massively popular video game interface and the Kindle is a book reader. For the most part the 2 target markets are pretty different. So what do these two entities have in common? MIT. You know… the highly prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
My father, Thomas Tahan, went to MIT. My perception of MIT has always been that it was a stuffy, techy school in Boston that bred a whole quirky, insanely genius populous of people that were beyond my comprehension. That still may be but I just learned something else. They have a Media Lab that is pumping out some of the world’s most popular technology for the everyday world. I just assumed all that is MIT was too high level for my cognizant faculties but Guitar Hero and the E-Ink of Kindle are just a few of the inventions created at the MIT Media Lab.
Read more details at Mental Floss. (My new favorite website. check out their Amazing Facts Generator)
