do-it-yourself-tech
Occupy's One-Time Internet Is In A Showdown With Google in Kansas City
The last time we heard from Isaac Wilder, co-founder of the "Free Network Foundation":http://thefnf.org/, he was getting the hell out of New York City. We first met Wilder, whose peer-to-peer, wifi-hotspot driven communications initiative took front...
Motherboard TV Preview: Drone On
They are overhead, far way, buzzing in the distance, doing their thing. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are "cruising over Benghazi":http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/14/us-protests-libya-airport-idUSBRE88D0PJ20120914 in the wake of attack on the...
Jonas Lund Created a Factory and Marketplace for Online Collaborative Art
Take a minute and go on a quick tour of the massive online art collaboration "Web Canvas":http://webcanvas.com/. It's like a bar bathroom wall as its own planet, complete with its own coordinate system. It's all so much barf and scribble -- but the...
Robots Want To Compete In the 2050 World Cup
When I was younger I played soccer this time of year, every year. One of my earliest memories of the sport was being confined to playing indoors, where my brother and I shared a similar disdain for the sealed environment which was that, "Indoor soccer...
Panopticon In Reverse: Steve Mann Is Fighting for Your Cyborg Rights
Last month, Dr. Steve Mann, a professor at the University of Toronto who has been living as a cyborg for his entire adult life, was attacked by employees at a Parisian McDonald’s.
The New Drug Subs Are Fully Submersible
It was only a matter of time. When Motherboard "caught up with the so-called godfather of narco subs":http://motherboard.vice.com/2010/7/4/go-inside-a-drug-submarine-with-the-narco-sub-godfather a few years back, the cartel's seaborne coke craft were...
Stretchable, Tattoo-Like Electronics Are Here to Check Your Health
earable computing is all the rage this year as Google pulls back the curtain on their Glass technology, but some scientists want to take the idea a stage further. The emerging field of stretchable electronics is taking advantage of new polymers that...
Watch 49 Technicolor Drones Fly-Dance In Unison
Look at the screenshot I shared above. That's what the end of the world will look like, when Skynet finally launches the missiles. The disco drone party is courtesy of a recent by German art collective Ars Electronica, and it may or may not be called...
Don't Take the Real Walking Tour of the Mysterious Jet Propulsion Lab
It'll take you nearly a day and a walking distance of over 50 miles. That's why.
This (Partly) 3D-Printed Race Car Can Break Every Speed Limit in America
A group of 16 engineers working at Belgium's "Group T":http://www.groept.be/www/?set-lang=en have produced what they're calling the world's first 3D-printed race car. The electric open-wheeler, called Areion, is pretty quick, with a 0-62 mph time of...
Watch This Century-Old Norwegian Time Capsule Reveal Right Now
It was given to the administration of Sel, Norway, in 1912, on one condition: "Can be opened in 2012."
Sorry Humans, Robot Olympians Are Way More Adorable
Looking ahead to the 2016 Olympics in Rio, it's fun to fantasize about all the different ways to make the games better. The committee could introduce new sports* like skateboarding or quidditch. Or they could bring back some lost Olympic sports like...