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Motherboard TV: Upgrade: Building Schools of Robotic Fish to Defend the Ocean
Massive oil spills like the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster last year – or the ongoing disaster along the Niger Delta – are fortunately rare. But smaller scale ocean pollution isn’t.
Motherboard TV: Upgrade: Mushroom Plastics
When we talk about mushrooms, we typically muse on any combination of three sub-strains: Recreational foraging, adventures in a psychedelic Legoland, and underrated pizza toppings. But not Eben Bayer.
Upgrade: The Living House
Imagine a future where the cities we live in are built in accordance with nature, where buildings are designed to incorporate features from ecological systems without compromising technological innovation or the quality of the environment.
Motherboard TV: Upgrade: Using Lasers To Make It Rain
World water use is "rising faster":http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/25/us-population-water-idUSTRE79O3WO20111025 than our world population. Tiny island nation Tuvalu "has been crippled":http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/tuvalu-fresh-water...
Upgrade: Building Drone Sailboats to Suck Up Oil Spills
In April of last year the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 men, injuring 17 others and triggering what is generally recognized as one of the greatest human errors ever made.
Remote Controlled Worms Are Just The Beginning
Scientists at the University of Buffalo have found a way to induce behavior in worms remotely.