Wired Storyboard Audio Podcast

Crash avoidance and automatic parking are just the start; our future automobiles could redefine the term “smart car” and our understanding of artificial intelligence to boot. In this episode, podcast host Adam Rogers sits down with Gizmodo features editor (and former Wired staffer) Joe Brown to talk about Joe’s story on intelligent cars from the January issue. Fasten your seat belts, sit back, and enjoy the ride.

On a recent visit to California, FEMA chief Craig Fugate's agenda read like an all-star roster of tech companies: Start the day at Twitter and Craigslist, drop by Wired at lunch, then on to visit Apple and Facebook. Why is this bureaucrat, head of the oft-maligned Federal Emergency Management Agency, on a tour of the techno-elite's offices? Because he's seen that when all hell breaks loose, disaster survivors turn to social networks -- both in their neighborhoods and online. Even in the rubble of Haiti's 2010 earthquake text messaging still worked. "We're there to support the survivors," Fugate says. "They shouldn't have to fit our system, we should fit how they communicate, the tools they're using." Fugate wants to harness the power of the digital world to help the U.S. government and citizens respond to disasters. He's pushing government agencies to make their websites and their data streams freely available for whatever mashups coders can cook up. And the sharing goes both ways: When a gas pipeline exploded near San Francisco last fall, Fugate watched the situation develop on Twitter. "We don't want to innovate at the speed of government, or we'll never get there," he says.During Fugate's visit, we sat him down with Storyboard podcast host Adam Rogers to discuss FEMA's social media strategy, emergency management's coolest hashtag, and why you should be prepared at home for anything from zombies to earthquakes. "Think of yourself as part of a team," says Fugate. "Don't mooch off the weak. Do feel free to tweet about it.

The glasses are goofy and the prices are still high, but Wired products editor John Bradley bets that your living room will soon feature the 3D experience. Why? One word: sports. Bradley is fresh off the floor of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where every January, tens of thousands of tech industry insiders descend on Sin City for four days of gadget geekery. This week on the podcast Bradley sits down with senior editor Adam Rogers to share his stories from the trenches. Tune in to hear more about why you need a 3D TV, the future of tablets, the phone that could kill the netbook, and what CES is really like behind the scenes.

Unless you've been living in an isolation chamber, you might have heard about this new movie, Tron:Legacy. It's hard to ignore the deluge of hype. There was a scavenger-hunt like viral campaign, a dead-on recreation of Flynn’s Arcade at Comic-con, an attraction at Disneyland and an old Jeff Bridges battling a young Jeff Bridges thanks to a computer-magic. How many Tron soundtrack fake-outs have you downloaded? The first Tron, never got this much love. Will the Tron re-boot make up for the mainstream flop of the first one? Who cares? It has lightcycles. And according to Senior Editor and Storyboard Host, Adam Rogers, you are going to love this movie. Why? Well, all of this is written up in our December cover story penned by Adam.. The article delves into the cultural importance of the old flick, reveals how Disney even came to take a risk on a weird movie like Tron and why every geek out there should care. Adam sits down with Senior Editor, Chris Baker to talk about the story, on newsstands now.

The cover story of the November issue takes a good hard look at breast augmentation, that’s right, boob jobs. But this is more than just a superficial read, this article takes a look at an ambitious new method of breast enhancement is a less controversial way to introduce stem cells usage to the mass market. The pursuit of the perfect breast could be the key to a major breakthrough in regenerative medicine. Filling in for Adam Rogers is Senior Editor, Jason Tanz. He sits down with ace science writer, Sharon Begley who is known for explaining complex subject matter to the masses She's at it once again in All Natural, as she explores the first practical application of stem cell enriched fat tissue, that in this case, it allows women to grow a new pair of breasts but can eventually be used to enhance, heal and rebuild damaged organs.

We at Wired love a good cocktail, not just a good cocktail, a great cocktail. And making a great cocktail is more than just art, it’s a science. You have to consider flavor combinations and liquor to mixer to ice ratios. And bar patrons pallets have expanded — vodka tonic or a Cosmo just doesn’t cut it anymore. What you imbibe has become a sophisticated blend of ingredients like infused syrups and egg whites. In this bonus podcast, host Adam Rogers geeks-out with San Francisco-based bartender Jennifer Colliau. Jennifer tends some of the city's greatest bar. Recently, she began handcrafting pre-prohibition era cocktail ingredients with her business Small Hands Foods. Hoist a glass to and find out why orgeat is not usually made with bitter almonds and what bartenders drink when nobody is looking.

Forget about other EV's, Elon Musk might have the sexiest electric vehicle out there. The Tesla Roadster, is a sleek, fast, high-performance electric car that almost didn't make it. The company, Tesla Motors was about to stall out but is now slated to win the race. (Yes, car puns) This dramatic rise, fall, rise, fall and rise again, is the topic of Wired's October cover story by Contributing Editor Josh Davis. On this week's Storyboard podcast, Josh takes us for a ride as he talks Tesla with Features Editor, Mark Robinson. Since 2002, Josh has chronicled diamond heists and waterless urinals in the pages of Wired. In this episode, Senior Editor and host Adam Rogers gets the untold stories you won't read in the magazine and is privy to a master class on brilliant storytelling.

The much beloved Supersoaker (and Storyboard host Adam Rogers' college prank instrument of choice) started out as PVC piping and a 2-liter coke bottle. Some of our favorite inventions had the very humblest of origins — a few of which were photographed in this month's issue. This week on Storyboard, Adam interviews Special Projects Editor Mark McClusky to get the story on the coolest gadget prototypes of all time. If you want to hear the hidden history of the touch tone phone, listen in as McClusky reveals the development of the prototype photo spread and discusses how Wired's iPad edition gets created.

Television is supposed to be easy — there's a reason its called the idiot box. Somehow between cable, Hulu, Netflix, Itunes and all the rest, how you watch it has become riddled with too much choice and anxiety. Never fear, Adam Rogers to the rescue. In this week's Storyboard podcast, Adam sits down with Articles Editor, Rob Capps to discuss this month's TV package. Get expert advice on how to ditch cable and learn why Community is the best show on TV (as if you didn't know already.)

In between panels, movie screenings and general crowd-watching at this year’s Comic-Con International, Wired senior editor Adam Rogers found time to interview British “weird fiction” writer China Mievelle — A self professed “classic geek’, who grew up nurturing an “astonishing fidelity to a love of monsters” that inspires his work. Also in this bonus podcast, Adam discusses his own personal fixation with cities and the difference between British and American geekery.

It’s your lucky day — a bonus edition of the Storyboard. This week Senior Editor Adam Rogers travels to interview Comi-Con to Namoi Novik, the brains behind the Temeraire series. Novik discusses how she re-imagined the Napoleonic wars with an air force of dragons, reveals details from her upcoming book Tongues of Serpents and gives fanfic all the love it deserves.

Whatever happened to my jetpack? What about my robot maid? Why on earth do I still have to chew food instead of taking my meal pill? And why is Will Ferrell on the cover of this month’s Wired with two white dogs! Hear the story behind the Future issue in this week’s Storyboard podcast as Adam Rogers talks shop with fellow Senior Editor Robert Capps.

Senior editor Adam Rogers talks to Fred Vogelstein about the bad blood between the two companies, and the consumer uprising that's changing the way big companies respond to pissed off users. Turns out a little hashtag on Twitter packs more of a punch than those strongly worded letters you've been writing.

Ever wonder what it’s like to maneuver a monster truck or pilot a supersonic spy plane? We can’t get you a test ride, but we can put you in the driver’s seat. Writer Steven Leckart discusses his photo essay "Cockpits" from the July issue along with the essay's photo editor Anna Alexander and Storyboard host Adam Rogers.

Google cofounder Sergey Brin has a 50 percent chance of developing Parkinson's. It's coded in his DNA. So he's pushing for a new kind of science—heavy on the data—to find a cure before the disease finds him. Executive editor Thomas Goetz discusses his cover story on the topic in the July issue of Wired with senior editor Adam Rogers.