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JULY 7, 2023

OurVision is a low-cost wearable that reads text out loud to users and helps them navigate their surroundings. The team built 11 devices, which currently are stored in the NAB library. The goal is to help blind people advance their educational and career opportunities, as well as to help them live independently.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

The cathode and electrolyte chemistries elucidated here propel the development of magnesium batteries and would accelerate the adoption of this low-cost and safe battery technology. The other circumvents the difficulties by storing magnesium cation in its complex forms. —Dong et al. Neither approach is practical.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This article was first published as “Of Mice and menus: designing the user-friendly interface.” In 1984, the low-cost Macintosh from Apple Computer Inc., But the increase stuck, Verplank said, because they had already decided to store 72 bits per side to allow for white space around each icon. Cupertino, Calif.,

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JULY 2, 2023

make a low-cost “appliance”-type computer that would be as easy to use as a toaster. This article was first published as “Design case history: Apple’s Macintosh.” In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc.

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OCTOBER 8, 2022

This article was first published as “Marcian E Hoff.” His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye.

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APRIL 2, 2022

This article was first published as "Design case history: the Commodore 64." We also examined the Texas Instruments 99/4A and the Atari 800. When the design of the Commodore 64 began, the overriding goals were simplicity and low cost. It appeared in the March 1985 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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