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 honed by their creative interests and life experiences ...

A video game pioneer who created both the precursor to "Pong" and the electronic memory game "Simon" has died. Ralph Baer also was leader of the team that developed the Magnavox Odyssey, the first ...

There is a controversial theory shared by scholars which suggests that technological progress is inevitable. Had Steve Jobs and Apple not created the iPhone, the theory suggests, then someone else ...

The 92-year-old was working as a military contractor in 1971 when he patented a piece of equipment that could create and control dots on a TV screen. Ralph Baer, The Man Who Thought Up Video Games, ...

Video games have become a ubiquitous, billion-dollar industry, but all of the Playstations, Xboxes and Wiis can be traced back to the work of... Ralph H. Baer, the man widely acknowledged as the ...

MANCHESTER — When Jamie Coughlin took over as CEO of the abi Innovation Hub in 2010, he made a pilgrimage to one of New Hampshire’s great inventors. As director of the Manchester-based organization ...

Ralph Baer invented video games in 1967 — here’s the dramatic tale of a refugee who reimagined home entertainment “Father of the Video Game” Ralph Baer escaped Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany as a ...

The first person to create a video game system for the television was an engineer who loved watching movies, but was disappointed the outcome of his favourite pastime - movie battles, did not always ...

In a moderated conversation about his life and work, Baer reenacts, with his partner William Harrison, the first time he played "Oddyssey", the first home video game for the consumer market, which he ...

MANCHESTER — The longtime Queen City resident who invented the home video game could soon be commemorated in the Millyard with a bench and sculpture of his likeness, thanks to his son and a group of ...