A Geek’s Guide to the Weather: 10 Questions for Jeff Renner

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Jeff Renner is the ultimate weather man — best known for predicting our rainy weeks on KING 5 News. Some may think he is no more than a friendly face grabbing his notes from an intern and effortlessly delivering his forecast to the camera. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Jeff is a true… Read More…

Geek of the Week: Archana Somasegar, 15-year-old advocate for girls in developing nations

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Archana Somasegar is an engaging  and energetic teenager with a passion — helping girls in developing nations get the education they need to be successful in the world. She may be only 15, but for two years she’s been running the Seattle chapter of Circle of Women, a non-profit group that establishes schools for girls… Read More…

Geek Made: Squirt-gun robot, electromagnetic fish tank and more from Mini Maker Faire

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The makers were out in force this weekend at Seattle Center, sharing their squirt-gun-shooting robots, laser-cut dollhouses, and the crazy powers of Microsoft Kinect at the Seattle Mini Maker Faire. The rise of Make magazine has helped to fuel the trend, and DIY clubs around Seattle have been growing steadily over the past five years. It’s… Read More…

Geek Made: Matthew Parker’s Amazing 10,000 Straw Project

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Visitors to the Viking Union Gallery at Western Washington University are greeted with a dazzling display of 10,000 black and pink straws creating a geometric mural that will make your head spin. The person behind the project is Matthew Parker — graphic designer and tactile designer of props, interiors and photo booths. He often uses paper or… Read More…

Gallery: Scenes from the Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards

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Editor’s Note: We a great time celebrating last night with more than 600 of you at the fourth annual Seattle 2.0 Startup Awards, presented by GeekWire at the EMP in Seattle. Photographer Annie Laurie Malarkey captured dozens of pictures of the evening, below. Click on any image to open a larger version as part of a… Read More…

The Next 50: Earth Portal takes you on a breathtaking trip into the depths of space

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The Next 50 at the Seattle Center started yesterday with events, live music, food trucks, and children flipping through the air (literally). The Next 50 is a six-month-long extravaganza that aligns with the 50th anniversary of the 1962 World‘s Fair in Seattle — the event that brought us the Space Needle — and aims to… Read More…

Photo Gallery: The Heroines of Sakura-Con

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On the first warm weekend of Spring, more than 14,000 costumed characters flooded the Convention Center in Seattle for Sakura-Con, the biggest Japanese anime convention in the Pacific Northwest. There was plenty to do including karaoke, cosplay contests, games and dance parties. While the action was going on inside, I couldn’t take my eyes of… Read More…

Where’s your #geekspace? Show us your work zone

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I am fascinated by our connected culture, watching the way communities grow and change online.  As a photographer with a background in sociology, one of my favorite ways of soaking up cultural and visual information is on the Instagram photo sharing platform. Amazing clusters of inspiring photos have sprung up from Instagram in the form of hashtags, one… Read More…

Photo Gallery: Weird scenes from Emerald City Comicon

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It’s always the pleasantly strange things at Emerald City Comicon that catch my eye. A wizard eating a burrito.  Darth Vader in a bright yellow kilt. A pterodactyl talking on his cell phone. Saturday drew quite a crowd, and the fun continued with a costume party and nerd rock concert at the Hard Rock Cafe. There… Read More…

Geek Made: Graypants creates intricate design products with your garbage

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The silver lining in a slow economy is that smart people get scrappy. With a knack for design and access to dumpsters full of cardboard, architects Seth Grizzle and Jonathan Junker created the booming startup, Graypants. They use a laser cutter to cut the cardboard scraps and assemble each product by hand.  The lights work… Read More…