Editor's note: This article will appear in Wired magazine's April issue, on sale March 24, 2009. It is being published online now because the subject of the story, Leonardo Notarbartolo, was released from prison in Belgium this week. Leonardo Notarbartolo strolls into the prison visiting room traili...

I scan the room. No arcade games. No man-sized rats in ball caps. This restaurant isn't what I expected from a Nolan Bushnell eatery. In fact, uWink—the latest dining concept from the man who founded both Chuck E. Cheese's and Atari—is filled with grown-ups, all huddled around touchscree...

In June 2005, a balding, slightly overweight, perpetually T-shirt-clad 26-year-old computer consultant named Dan Kaminsky decided to get in shape. He began by scanning the Internet for workout tips and read that five minutes of sprinting was the equivalent of a half-hour jog. This seemed like a grea...