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Jeri Ellsworth Keeps Bringing the Future Back to the Table
She built race cars, taught herself chip design, survived one startup’s collapse, and returned with a stranger, more sociable idea for augmented reality: keep the people, the pizza, and the table in view.
Hasbro
How a Rhode Island textile-scraps business became the house that Monopoly, Nerf and Magic: The Gathering built - and why its future increasingly runs on dice, decks and download codes.
Board
Board is a New York startup building the first face-to-face game console: a 24-inch touchscreen in a wood-finish frame that recognizes physical game pieces, merging the tactile feel of board games with the interactivity of video games. Founded by Brynn Putnam, who previously sold connected-fitness company Mirror to Lululemon for $500M, Board makes 'together tech' meant to bring people back into the same room. Priced at $399, it ships with included games and is already in tens of thousands of homes, schools, hospitals and restaurants across all 50 states.