The Transistor. The Fiber Optic Cable. The Unix Operating System. The First Confirmation of the Big Bang Theory. Six Nobel Prizes. And, of course, the Telephone. These are just a few of the world changing innovations created at Bell Labs.At its core, Bell Labs is a prolific group of talented researchers who work at their whiteboards solving hard problems. Potion’s idea was to imagine a whiteboard that remembered all of the ideas ever written on it. The result is an interactive wall that retrieves the titles and abstracts for nearly every publication published by Bell Labs since 1897 — over 80,000 publications and 25,000 worldwide patents. Touch a researcher’s name and access all of their work. Touch a patent, and view all of the inventors, then access all of their subsequent inventions. Most importantly, new patents and publications are added to the system every week, linking today’s ongoing innovation with Bell Labs heritage.Potion draws on the inherent interaction language of whiteboards to perform complex database queries and other computational tasks. Rather than clicking on menus, users can drag bubbles around to curate their whiteboard,