Autism Glass Takes Top Student Health Tech Prize

Kids diagnosed with autism often struggle with making eye contact as well as recognizing emotions and social cues exchanged with other people. A handful of tech entrepreneurs hope Google Glass could become a tool to help these children better identify conversational nuances in real time—and one such entrepreneur received a vote of confidence in his work Tuesday, taking home the $15,000 “Cure it!” 2016 Lemelson–MIT Student Prize, which rewards technology-based health care inventions. Stanford University graduate student Catalin Voss’s Autism Glass project certainly fits the bill. The 20-year-old inventor, working in the lab . . .