Riiven Threads

Pull a thread. See what it unravels.

Every technology you take for granted is a convergence of separate fields of science, developed over decades by people who never met. We trace the threads and visualize them.

Microwave Oven

Microwave Oven

Radar Learned to Cook
MEMS Gyroscope and Accelerometer

MEMS Gyroscope and Accelerometer

The Sesame Seed That Knows Up
QR Code

QR Code

The Boring Revolution
LED Lighting

LED Lighting

Daylight Was Engineered
RSA Cryptography

RSA Cryptography

Math They Tried to Ban
Capacitive Touchscreen

Capacitive Touchscreen

The surface you touch 2,600 times a day is the product of five separate fields that matured decades apart and only met inside one phone.
HTTPS

HTTPS

The padlock on your browser is one court ruling, one bug, and one nonprofit away from disappearing.
JPEG

JPEG

You've never seen a JPEG. You've seen what five sciences agreed to let your eyes notice.
GPS

GPS

Five people, none of them trying to help you, accidentally built the blue dot on your map.

New Thread every week. Each one takes a technology you use daily and traces it back to the independent fields of science that made it possible.