Your Doc’s Newest Gadget: a Veggie-Detecting-Laser
Soon, a veggie-detecting-laser will be able to tell whether you’ve been eating your peas and carrots. Are you ready for the truth? Read more
Back to the Future: Predicting 2012 in 1987
In 1987, as part of a contest, a dozen highly regarded science fiction authors were asked to envision what our world would be like in a quarter-century: 2012. How did their predictions fare? Read more
From Birds to Broadband: a History of Olympic Communication
How did the non-Olympia-dwelling plebes find out who had won the coveted wreaths of laurel leaves without YouTube replays or Facebook updates? It all began with pigeons. Read more
High-Tech Holiday: Ramadan Goes Digital
This year, for the first time, Ramadan is coming to a wireless connection near you. Read more
This Is What the Internet Looks Like
This is truly what the World Wide Web looks like – it’s not ethereal, existing in a cloud (or “the cloud”); it’s buried beneath our feet, connecting us to one another in an intricate web of cables that hum and buzz beneath the oceans. Read more
Barbie’s Social Media ‘Glam-paign’ to The Pink House
Who is the most web-savvy, underdog candidate in the 2012 presidential election? Hint: she’s eleven inches tall, drives a Corvette convertible, and loves the color pink. Read more
Battle of the Sexes: Who’s Winning the Social Media War?
Women are from Pinterest; men are from Reddit. But when it comes to the industry as a whole, which sex is more actively tweeting, posting, tagging, and friending? Read more
In a Brazilian Prison, Pedaling Towards Freedom
One Brazilian prison is experimenting with a new form of alternative energy: the prisoners themselves. Could this approach work in the U.S.? Read more
Cartoon Robots, Teenage Aliens, and Kung-Fu
We put DARPA’s question, “What technology from science fiction would you most like to see as science fact?” to the WaPo Labs team. How did they respond? Read more
Technology Behind Bars at San Quentin State Prison
The @thelastmilesq tweets are a fascinating window onto the day-to-day thoughts and experiences of San Quentin’s inmates. The prisoners waver between hope and despair, alternately dreaming about the future and lamenting the mistakes of the past. Read more