The Upload

Our Eye on Innovation column this month features a diverse roundup of notable game-changing trends, products, and technology.

As football season kicks off, 3D-printed helmets, other equipment may help prevent injuries.

Wearable technology grows as new markets and uses emerge, though challenges remain.

Augmented reality means business as companies like Apple apply the technology to commercial use.

3D printing is now combined with CNC machining in a multi-tasking tool system now offered by Hybrid Manufacturing Technologies.

Virtual reality may be garnering a lot of media buzz these days, but augmented reality is gaining traction as a technology for product design.

iBackPack connects to the internet, charges your devices, tracks your location.

Lidar, a laser-based sensing technology, enables autonomous cars to sense nearby objects.

Fashion and technology mixed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual gala.

NCAA Final Four games last year, for the first time ever, were live-streamed in virtual reality.