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Wide Angle: Love and Tech

Technology is everywhere and it follows that it would seep into your love life. You can use it to find love (think: online dating services or even DNA matching); you can use it to keep love (think: flirting over Skype) you can use it to make love (think: Roxxxy, the sex robot); and you can use it to get rid of love (think: breaking up over Facebook or text message). In this Wide Angle we look at the intersection of love and tech.

'Techstrology': What's Your Sign?

Tracy Staedter chats with cosmic consultants Starsky and Cox to discovery which star signs use technology to find or get rid of love.

Breathable Chocolate In Time For Valentine's Day

Get all the flavor without the calories.

Rootbeer-Smelling Roses? Pick Your Scent

Just in time for Valentine's day, scientists genetically engineer roses that can produce custom-made aromas.

Science Helps Find True Love [VIDEOS]

Find out how science plays into love and infidelity in these videos. Plus, the history of kissing, what "Eskimo kiss" means, and more.

Online Dating Stigmas Dissolving

In comparing newlyweds who met online and those who didn't, researchers found that the way they met had no impact on their relationships.

Top 5 Valentine's Day iPhone Apps

The advent of the iPhone and other smart phone technology has made finding and staying in love even easier.

How Facebook Breeds Jealousy

After a stressful day fighting the battles of the real world, you sit down at your computer for a virtual vacation with only one destination in mind: Facebook.At the end of the day Muise and her colleagues recognized that other factors like the dynamic of the relationship and one’s own propensity towards jealous...

Express Your Love Through Technology

Why settle for the traditional route of jewelry, chocolates and electronic teddy bears that sing "Burning Love" at a pitch just inside the range of human hearing? Nothing really says, "I love you" like some creative technology gifts.

Online Dating at 15: Despite Flaws, a Fruitful Tool

The world of online dating remains murky, but it has proven to be a helpful tool for those who learn to navigate it.

Why Do We Care if Tiger Woods Cheats?

Dr. Helen Fisher explains why it is so hard to look away when a well-known celebrity has been unfaithful.

Cheaters Among Us

Why do some people cheat in relationships, while others don't?

The Break-Up Addiction

New research shows the area of the brain associated with addiction is triggered during breakups.

Sex Robot Initially Designed as a Health Aid

Thanks to Medicare, which wouldn't reimburse for the cost of a help-mate robot, Roxxxy the robot is now seeking employment in the adult entertainment business.

Sex Robot Carries on Conversations

The $7,000 robot is equipped with a slew of advanced technologies such as voice-recognition and speech-synthesis software to give it a lifelike presence.

Love and Tech: Tell Us Your Stories

Did your meet your current partner online? (I did!) Do you ask people out on a first date via text message? Have you used technology to break up with someone? (I think face-to-face takes guts and that's why you should do it that way. Text messaging a break up is so weak!) How about flirting via email or text messaging? (Guilty.) Tell us your stories.

Dating Sites ID the Smell of Love

Two companies, Basisnote and Scientific Match, are developing technology to match couples based on the genetic components of the human immune system and body odor.