An award-winning app, courtesy of the folks behind Khan Academy, Draw and Tell boasts a whole bunch of digital tools—crayons, paint brushes, stencils stickers and more—that encourage kids to ...

In 1896, Bombay (now Mumbai) battled an outbreak of bubonic plague. For many months, life in the Indian city was defined by quarantines, travel restrictions, emergency hospitals and ongoing inequality ...

SEATTLE and REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 12, 2008 — Sabi Inc., a Seattle-based startup company, and Microsoft Corp. announce the launch of ItzaBitza, a unique, engaging interactive drawing and reading game ...

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All art is interactive — at least, in a sense. When you observe, consider, even dismiss a work, you have engaged with it on some level. Interactive art, however, is different — a notion made all the ...

The “Senseless Drawing Bot,” by Japanese designers So Kanno and Takahiro Yamaguchi, uses a double pendulum mounted on a modified electric skateboard to create an ingenious spray-painting machine that ...

As educators struggle to motivate more students to take up technology-related majors, breakout online education startup, Khan Academy, has a novel approach. “Computer Science is an intensely creative ...