technology-and-love
Future Sex: The Best Offbeatr Porn Projects for Geeks
Yesterday we all learned "about Offbeatr":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/9/the-future-is-bright-for-offbeatr-the-kickstarter-for-porn, the new, Kickstarter-inspired site dedicated to crowd funding of pornography. At its core, the site represents an...
The Future Is Bright for Offbeatr, the Kickstarter for Porn
The thing about Kickstarter, I've always though, is that it's just not that edgy. Sure, hackable game consoles and <a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology...
Future Sex: The Science of the One-Night Stand
By now we’ve all read the recent ESPN story on all the crazy, hard-bodied sexual shenanigans of the Olympic Village. A notable face includes the sheer number of condoms purchased for use at the Olympic Village (100,000!). Well, today, Olympic swimmer...
America's Missile Defense System Operators Sure Do Love Porn
Government employees are just like you and me. Just like you and me, they wake up in the morning, put on some chinos, go to work and sit at a computer all day. Just like you and me, sometimes they get bored, so they surf the web a little bit. And...
Future Sex: Should You Sext?
We all know that youngsters these days are using their iPhones for things a lot more scintillating than Angry Birds, but still, the numbers are kind of shocking. Recently, a new study was released detailing high school students’ sexting habits. The...
Take Your Roomba on a Date to the Robot Film Festival
The second annual "Robot Film Festival":http://robotfilmfestival.com/ is tomorrow in New York! Founded by friend of Motherboard and social roboticist "Heather Knight":http://motherboard.vice.com/2010/7/7/social-roboticist-heather-knight-wants-you-to...
The Accidental Art of a Dying Digital Camera
A friend, who you may remember from the "leading edge of early-'00s Game Boy camera cinema": http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/5/10/the-1-bit-camera-app-is-cool-but-here-s-a-whole-movie-made-with-the-game-boy-camera--2 , forwarded along this short video...
Future Sex: Are Sex Drugs For Women Doing The Trick?
Abby Ellin’s newest "trend piece" for _The Times_":http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/health/more-women-seek-over-the-counter-sexual-remedies.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all details the growing market for over-the-counter sexual aids for women experiencing...
Other Online Things For Making Collections of Online Things
In this shift from web-publishing Web 2.0 era to the personalization key of Web 3.0, the ever present task to make the web more about helping people shop better, and to see a reflection of oneself in an eye-sizzling retina display has kept developers...
How Futuristic is Modern Sex?
Nearly forty years ago American futurist writer Robert Anton Wilson penned an essay, The Future of Sex: Cybernetics, Bio-Feedback, Neurology and Plenty of Old Fashioned Dickie Dunkin’ outlining his predictions for human sexuality in the coming...
How to Be Cyberpunk
First of all, you can't simply _become_ a cyberpunk. And not now. Certainly not now, not that cyberpunk is "everywhere":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/6/5/what-happened-to-cyberpunk--2.But close your eyes, put on your VR goggles, and return to the...
PETA Unveils .XXX Site, Arouses No One
You know what’s super disappointing? Sitting home alone on a Saturday night, drinking a glass of whiskey and clicking a .xxx link (in hopes of suppressing some of the loneliness and misery you feel because you can’t seem to find _anyone_ who wants to...