It's basically the opposite of Love Potion #9. Rather than transform a guy who can't find romance into a full-blown Lothario who falls in love with anything that moves, oxytocin might actually curb a committed man's desire to pursue anything but a mo…
This vid was presented earlier this month at the latest International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in Vilamoura, Algarve in Portugal by Rehan O'Grady, and Marco Dorigo, from Universite Libre de Bruxelles and Instituto Universit…
In the lower level of the American Museum of Natural History, I was having trouble paying attention to the First Deputy Mayor Patti Harris. My mind wandered to the press conference-y backdrop behind her, which covered the entrance to the “Hall of Pla…
When NASA isn't landing explorer robots on Mars or executing elaborate retirements for old space shuttles through the streets of L.A., the space agency is hard at work on technology that could lift paraplegics out of their wheelchairs and get them wa…
This week the _New Yorker_ has published an "in-depth account of the rise of an antibiotic resistant strain on gonorrhea":http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/10/01/121001fa_fact_groopman. How terrified should we be?
A few months ago, I received a call from Johnny Carson, a man for whom I was once privileged to work. There was no doubt that it was Johnny because as my iPhone trilled its canned, bluesy theme, the screen lit up with the contact photo I had once ass…
It's been 14 years since the emergency rafts full of netizens started to ditch the sinking ships of websearch services Altavista, Yahoo, AskJeeves, WebCrawler, MSN and AOL Search.
A solar powered 3D printer, bacteria that transmits AM radio signals, and geese on the moon -- these are just a few glimpses of the future that were on display at this year's Ars Electronica, one of biggest festivals for art and technology in the wor…
On top of the growing popularity of ebooks and the Orwellian end of the written word as we know it, Jonathan Franzen now has to deal with this. And he just lost self-proclaimed “Luddite” Thomas Pynchon "to the digital tide":http://motherboard.vice.co…
Megan May Daalder is a young artist in Los Angeles who is responsible for the Mirrorbox, a hands-on piece that uses two-way mirrors and a lighting sequence to allow two participants to momentarily blend their faces together in a genuinely arresting i…
When George Carlin released his famous monologue, "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television," in 1972, it didn’t include the word "pussy." Although his list didn’t reflect _all_ the words you couldn’t say on TV at the time, the ones he chose were…
Dani Read designs elegant lingerie, loungewear, and toys for the future. After working for some of the most exciting lingerie brands in the business, "she launched her own line, FYI":http://fyibydaniread.com/new/, in 2010. Since then she's been desig…
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
The thing about Kickstarter, I've always though, is that it's just not that edgy. Sure, hackable game consoles and …
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…
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 — t…
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 r…
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-…
