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UW’s Sustainable Vehicle to Compete in EcoCar2
Photo courtesy of General Motors.OVERTHENEXT couple of years, the University of Washington will house a little bit of Detroit. That’s because 40 grads and undergrads have thrown their Crescent wrenches...
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Amazon and the 1,000 Genomes Project Make DNA Searchable
Image: Chris SkilesThe 1,000 Genomes Project, the world’s largest database of genetic sequences, is a modern marvel. But in the amount of time it would take to download the database’s 200 terabytes of...
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Seattle Startup ChorePay Drags Childhood Allowance Into the Digital Age
Image: Matthew HollisterGone are the days of filling piggy banks with nickels earned via allowance. Now kids make serious cash—an average of $20 a week, according to Jeremy Jacola, chief operating...
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Disbanded: No Broadband Utility for Seattle
Image: Chris SkilesFor Seattleites desperately in need of a break on their Internet bill, it had to be a drag to discover in early May that their last best hope was fizzling. “Seattle Pulls Plug on its...
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Seattle’s Space Elevator Man
Among the myriad out-there ideas for hurling humans into the final frontier, the space elevator most resembles science fiction: Conceived more than 50 years ago by Russian engineer Yuri Artsutanov, the...
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UW Professors Rescue Moore’s Law
Here’s a factoid to put modern electronics inperspective: Intel’s first microprocessor in 1971 had the same computing power as the first computer, 1946’s room-size, steampunkish ENAC. Another measly...
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Pay Phones as Wi-Fi Hot Spots
Image: Chris Skiles, R. Formidable/Shutterstock“There’s no such thing as too muchWi-Fi,” says Peter Izzo. An exec at New York City advertising firm Van Wagner, Izzo points to the eight phone booths his...
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A Belltown Tech Firm Makes an E-Pill Possible
Image: Matthew HollisterHere’s a medical breakthrough you may not have seen coming: Prescriptions that are physicians. In August, Proteus Digital Health scored approval from the FDA for its ingestible...
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Seattle’s Biggest Buzz Dealer Isn’t Starbucks
We all know that tired joke about a Starbucks on every city block. But get this: As of early September, the java giant wasn’t the storefront leader in Seattle. The new king in town? Marijuana...
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3D Printing Goes Green
What’s for dinner? Upload “steak,” press print, voila: 24-ounce rib eye. Or maybe you need a liver transplant? That’s on its way, too. The business of 3D printing, manufacturers predict, will be the...
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Fight a Traffic Ticket Online
Image: ShutterstockA 2am text message from a guy who Raanan Schnitzer didn’t even know—a friend of a friend of a friend—convinced the paralegal to cofound eTicketbuster.com late last year. As a legal...
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Inside Gabe Newell’s Downloadable Software Empire
Image: Darren GeersThis February, Gabe Newell will become just the 17th person inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences’ hall of fame, and it’ll be on the strength of his geek cred:...
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SideCar Connects Riders in Need with Drivers, Indeed
Image: ShutterstockSunil Paul believes social media is displacing the car as the most valuable tool in life’s tool kit, and the San Francisco–based entrepreneur has taken that idea to its logical...
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Tarah Wheeler Van Vlack Fights for Women in Tech
Image: Michael ClinardHate the game, not the player. That’s the message behind LadyCoders, an initiative launched in fall 2012 by Tarah Wheeler Van Vlack, Liz Dahlstrom, and Lorraine Sawicki to help...
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Inside the Super-Green Bullitt Center
Image: Robin SteinImage: Courtesy Miller Hull Partnership When it opens in Capitol Hill on Earth Day, the Bullitt Center will be the most energy-efficient office building in the world. Denis Hayes,...
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The Big Idea: Information Society
Image: ShutterstockEd Lazowska explains it as an embarrassment of information riches. A decade deep into the twenty-first century, we’re slathered in data—from traffic cams, sensors on the ocean floor,...
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Basel Action Network Turns Back the Toxic E-Waste Tide
Brandon Richter was so busted. It was fall 2008, and as 60 Minutes cameras rolled, journalist Scott Pelley confronted the baseball cap–wearing CEO of Executive Recycling with evidence that his company...
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PopCap Makes Games They Like
Image: Getty Images/Eric ThayerDeath Becomes Him John Vechey livens up the E3 crowd.It was quiet backstage at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on June 10, an edgy kind of quiet born out of the...
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Ground Control to Mr. Meline
Down on Earth, the crowd had dispersed: The awestruck military attaché. The 62nd Airlift Wing captain in combat fatigues. The radio producer, mike in hand, headphones parenthetically gripped over his...
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Porch Takes On Angie’s List
Frustrated with the lack of information available while planning his Laurelhurst home remodel in 2011, Matt Ehrlichman did what any entrepreneur might do. He started his own company.Ehrlichman—who...
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