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SideCar Connects Riders in Need with Drivers, Indeed

The mobile app is part ride-share program and part conservationist compromise with our car-based culture.

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Tarah Wheeler Van Vlack Fights for Women in Tech

The cofounder of LadyCoders wants to even the playing field for female programmers.

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Fight a Traffic Ticket Online

eTicketbuster allows drivers to contest tickets without ever having to see a judge or a lawyer.

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3D Printing Goes Green

University of Washington leads the way for environmentally minded additive manufacturing.

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Seattle’s Biggest Buzz Dealer Isn’t Starbucks

A mobile app shows there are more medical marijuana shacks than Starbucks in town.

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A Belltown Tech Firm Makes an E-Pill Possible

The battery-free “e-pill” uses stomach acid as its power source and emits a signal to a body patch designed by Stratos Product Development in Belltown.

09/19/2012 By Derek Tsang

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Pay Phones as Wi-Fi Hot Spots

Would It Work in Seattle? A New York ad firm reconfigures old, unused phone booths to pulse with free Wi-Fi.

08/21/2012 By Sarah Gambles

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UW Professors Rescue Moore’s Law

Fusion experts develop a cheap, efficient source of extreme ultraviolet light to make your smart phone faster.

08/20/2012 By Derek Tsang

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Seattle’s Space Elevator Man

After a decade of disappointment, could there be new life for the space elevator?

07/17/2012 By Matthew Halverson

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Disbanded: No Broadband Utility for Seattle

For years Seattle has welched on its promise to build a municipal broadband network. We may have Tacoma to blame—and thank—for that.

06/20/2012 By Matthew Halverson

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Seattle Startup ChorePay Drags Childhood Allowance Into the Digital Age

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Amazon and the 1,000 Genomes Project Make DNA Searchable

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UW’s Sustainable Vehicle to Compete in EcoCar2

04/23/2012

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Picnik Crashers

Why did Google kill Seattle’s prized picture-editing site?

03/23/2012 By Matthew Halverson

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Gaming, for Your Health

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Vioguard’s Self-Sanitizing Keyboard

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Romotive Turns Your iPhone into a Robot

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Visionaries Imagine Seattle in 2062

01/20/2012 By James Ross Gardner and Brian Colella

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Tech Education for the Masses

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Wikispeed’s 100 Mile Per Gallon Car

With a background in software, Joe Justice is the last guy you’d expect to make cars. But if his geeky, hard-to-believe, 100-mile-per-gallon car is as awesome as he says it is, he may just revolutionize the way Detroit does business.

12/23/2011 By Matthew Halverson