The MIT Media Lab was launched in 1985 to bring together experts from different academic fields, founded on the idea that mixing and matching researchers and students, and encouraging people to draw on their unique experiences and perspectives, would yield previously unimaginable technological breakthroughs.

Andrew Lippman, senior research scientist and associate director of the MIT Media Lab, calls it a “bubbling brew of differentiation.”

Out of that bubbling brew has emerged the predecessor to Google Glass, the technology behind e-readers, the video game Guitar Hero and a bionic prosthetic leg.

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