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Art + Design
Hacking the ITP Show
What the kids make at NYU's hacker particle accelerator
Photo: Elizabeth Fuller
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Art + Design
Rabbit holes are for kids
'90s edutainment offering Chop Suey got "girl games" right, and why that still matters
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Art + Design
Abraham LinkedIn
He didn't invent Facebook, but the first tech president used "t-mail" to win the Civil War
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Art + Design
Defeat surveillance with cats
Humanitarian hacker Nadim Kobeissi developed Cryptocat, a free encrypted chat application with retro graphics and feline-themed emoticons.
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Art + Design
Everything Instagram isn't
Your way cool app-based photo filters have nothing on the totally subjective interpretation of an anonymous low-wage worker
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Art + Design
The finer points of David Rees
Get your artisanal pencil sharpening on
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Art + Design
Icebergs are cool
No matter what the Titanic says
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Art + Design
Lord British In Space
Gaming impresario Richard Garriott talks about dropping $30 mill on a Soyuz ticket, space diving, and the coming era of space travel.
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Art + Design
Google Maps is Twisted
Clement Valla preserves the strangest aberrations in mapping software before they get edited away forever.
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Art + Design
Ai Weiwei's Internet Porn Protest
Fighting China's Great Firewall with fire.
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Art + Design
The Iraq War That Doesn't End
The webcomic-turned-graphic novel that imagined an even more dystopian 2011.
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Thorium Dream
Who killed a vision for "safer" nuclear power?
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Art + Design
Sunglass Nut
Kim Jong-Il wasn't the only sunglassed dictator.
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Art + Design
To 3D Or Not To 3D
The greatest 3D printers at the World Maker Faire may be futuristic radical, but why do we need them?
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Art + Design
The Other Shark Week
Can the Shark Week app smell the Period Tracker app on an iPhone?
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Art + Design
The Groovy Future We Had In Mind
How the 1970s envisioned space colonization.
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Art + Design
Say Hello to ASIMO's Ancestors
Feudal Japan was home to karakuri ningyō, mechanical dolls that were Japan's first robots.
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Art + Design
A Brief History of A/C
From Persian wind catchers to a fan and a bucket of ice to solar-powered air conditioning.
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Motherboard GIFs Internet Week a New One
I know what you’re thinking and yes, every week is Internet Week at Motherboard, but that d...
May 11, 2012
by Sean_Yeaton
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(video)One Laptop Per Child and Epic Screens
Mary Lou Jepsen is the founder and CEO of Pixel Qi Corporation, a manufacturer of low-cost, low-p... (video)
May 10, 2012
by Trevor_Macomber
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(video)MBTV: Behind the Scenes of Where the Wild Things Are
On assignment for Motherboard, Vice co-founder Shane Smith traveled to London to meet with Spike ... (video)
May 08, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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The Weirdest Search Engines Online
Last week, we entered the realm of the subversive recursive to see what happens when you use sear...
May 07, 2012
by Trevor_Macomber
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How the Descriptive Camera Out Instagrams Instagram
Wandering the back halls of the internet — all flickering lights, discarded furniture, and ...
May 05, 2012
by Michael_Byrne
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Meet the Six-Legged Monster That You Can Drive
I grew up in rural Northern California, and up in those parts you see a lot of trucks. Really BIG...
May 03, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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Hey Big Companies, Digital Sprawl Will Bankrupt You
“Digital sprawl” is guaranteed to lead to our doom.
May 02, 2012
by Sam_McDougle
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Orange is the Color of the Future
The business of imagining the future is often a colorful one, but especially for the people charg...
May 01, 2012
by Alex_Pasternack
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(video)How Charles Babbage's Train-Sized Mechanical Computer Worked
Kids these days, with their newfangled computer-phones, hardly bat an eye at the hard drives with... (video)
Apr 30, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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This Is What Pi Looks Like
Last year, a programmer from Japan and a 23- year old student from Northwestern continued humanit...
Apr 27, 2012
by Lara_Heintz
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Vintage Digital Photos Are Awesome, Even If They're Bad
After half a decade and three continents, I’ve decided to retire my trusty old DSLR body an...
Apr 25, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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Meet the Guy Who Designed North Korea’s Website for $15
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is a country of non sequiturs, exemplified by ho...
Apr 25, 2012
by Alec_Liu
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Claude Monet Had Trippy Ultraviolet Vision
It’s the painter’s perennial conundrum: How does one interpret reality, so it, you kn...
Apr 24, 2012
by Lara_Heintz
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Inspired by China, Iran Pursues Halal Internet
Once again, Iran has been making noise about its ambitious plans for internet censorship. In open...
Apr 24, 2012
by AnaTiwathia
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University of Florida to Computer Science: Drop Dead
In a mystifying budget decision, University of Florida has decided to get rid of its computer sci...
Apr 23, 2012
by AnaTiwathia
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RoboSlop: The Future of Automated Eateries Is Now
New Zealand nerds postulating about the future of the sex robot industry. Robot prison guards beg...
Apr 20, 2012
by Trevor_Macomber
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Wait, Pencils Are Art?
If I were playing a word association game with a therapist right now, and he said “pencil,” two t...
Apr 19, 2012
by JennyPacillo
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The Wolf in Electromagnetic Clothing
Invisibility is one of the oldest concepts in our mythology. Years before Harry Potter put on his...
Apr 18, 2012
by Zak_Kiernan
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Sony Is Betting Its Life on Cell Phone Watches
On January 13, 1946, Chester Gould gave Dick Tracy a two-way wrist radio and adolescent boys acro...
Apr 17, 2012
by Trevor_Macomber
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How to Throw an 800 Pound Paper Airplane
When I was a kid, my friends and I used to spend hours inventing and constructing different paper...
Apr 16, 2012
by Trevor_Macomber
