Seamus Blackley with his Feynman Van.
Seamus Blackley with his Feynman Van.
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Xbox co-creator wants a home in the Smithsonian for physicist Richard Feynman’s van

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Seamus Blackley, the co-creator of the Xbox, is on a new mission. And this one takes him back to the days of his first love, theoretical physics. Blackley has started a petition to have the 1974 Dodge van of Nobel-winning theoretical physicist Richard Feynman displayed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

Blackley is a video game designer and physicist, and he combined those skills in creating more realistic video games. He feels a debt to Feynman because he inspired so many physicists, including Blackley.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.