Seth Porges

Seth Porges is an American science and technology journalist and television commentator.[1] He appears on numerous television shows on the History,[2] National Geographic,[3] Discovery,[4] American Heroes[5] and Travel[6] channels. Previously, he worked as a senior editor at Maxim magazine,[7] as an editor at Popular Mechanics magazine, as the technology columnist at Bloomberg News[8] and as a writer for TechCrunch.[9] He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

Porges has appeared as a guest commentator on television networks such as MSNBC,[10] Fox News,[11] G4, Fox Business and CNBC, as well as the web shows TechVi[12] and Rocketboom.[13] His writing has appeared in publications such as BusinessWeek, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal and Editor & Publisher.[14] In 2014, he produced a documentary[15] about Action Park that went viral and is credited with inspiring the park to change its name.[16]

In 2012 Porges co-founded Cloth[17], a fashion app with designer Wray Serna. A unique profiling system developed by Cloth gives retailers a better sense of who their customers are and what is in their closets, allowing them to better target and engage their customers.

He is the son of the neuroscientists Stephen Porges and C. Sue Carter, and is the subject of a song by the musician Wesley Willis.[18] In 2009, he received attention as a test pilot on the maiden voyage of an experimental pulse jet-powered carousel.[19] In 2006, he appeared as a contestant on Cash Cab. In 2011, he led a Twitter campaign that succeeded in causing Chipotle to list the presence of bacon in its pinto beans.[20] That same year, he was named as one of "50 Media Power Bachelors" by The New York Observer.[21] and one of Stylecaster's "Top 25 IT Kids of 2011".[22] He is an expert on the history of pinball.[23]