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GDC 11: Indies Show Their Might With DIY Arcade Machines, A QWOP Bear, Ninjas

With sweeping victories for titles like Minecraft and Amnesia: The Dark Descent, indie game developers were the focus of just about everyone’s attention at this year’s Game Developers Conference.
Janus Rose
3.7.11
Motherboard Blog

Electric Independence: Emeralds

It's not everyday we get to (or want to) go to Cleveland, but when the opportunity came along to hang with one of the most exciting young synthesizer-based acts in the world, we put our snow boots on and headed (mid)west.
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
3.7.11
Motherboard Blog

Why You Might Want To Get a Piece of Metal Wasted

Superconductivity is a property that a metal can acquire where it loses all of its electric resistance and becomes nearly 100-percent efficient. It's useful is making awesome magnets, in MRI machines and microscopes, and, in the future, it'll maybe be...
Michael Byrne
3.7.11
Motherboard Blog

The Uncanny Valley All Up In Your Pocket

There's a school of thought, the dominant one, that a thing that you have in your pocket for most of your waking hours should be fairly design-neutral. Like the iPhone: it's just a black brick that's about as thin as engineering allows. Well, Japan...
Michael Byrne
3.6.11
Motherboard Blog

Searching the Unsearchable with Greplin, and So What

When you enter something into Google--or Bing or Blekko or anything really--you are of course not searching the entire internet. There's a vast land beyond that remains uncachable/unsearchable by search engines, mainly because they're under password...
Michael Byrne
3.6.11
Motherboard Blog

The Ads of TED: The Commercials that Captivated America's Intellectual Elite This Week (Video)

TED, America's ideas conference par excellence, is all about the "ideas worth spreading," but it's inevitable, hard as the organizers try: many of the blockbuster speeches that blow up the annual conference can feel like ads for the speakers themselves...
ALEX PASTERNACK
3.6.11
Motherboard Blog

This Guy Really Wants To Colonize Icebergs

So I came across "a paper":http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0804/0804.0754.pdf written by this guy Alexander Bolonkin all about the idea of building a city on a big piece of ice. Said paper's from 2008 and for all I know might've already been a meme...
Michael Byrne
3.6.11
Music

A Piece Of Fool's Gold Among The Armory Week Art Fairs

It’s Armory Arts Week. Where are you headed?
Lauren Leibowitz
3.4.11
Music

The Black Lips Pull Off A Music Video While On Vacation

The first video to surface from group’s upcoming album, Arabia Mountain, produced by Mark Ronson.
Kathleen Flood
3.4.11
Music

A Crowdsourced Virtual Choir With Big Ambitions

Composer Eric Whitacre wanted to smash the record for a crowdsourced choir by aiming for about 900 submissions. He received 2,051 from 58 countries.
Kevin Holmes
3.4.11
Motherboard Blog

GDC 11: Loop Raccord Is A Game About Playing With GIFs

Animated GIFs are cool to stare at, but what would it be like to play them like game? We're at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, and there's been one little indie title here that's utterly hypnotized me in its attempt to answer...
Janus Rose
3.4.11
Vice Blog

THE PSYCHIC PARAMOUNT RETURNS

VICE Staff
3.4.11
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