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Vibrating Train Windows Will Transmit Ads Directly into Your Skull

What’s next, a gadget that holds your eyelids open and your head still during commercials?
Meghan Neal
7.5.13
Motherboard Blog

Here's How (and When) We Hurt Ourselves With Fireworks

Life, limb, and the pursuit of bleeding out. An infographic.
Brian Anderson
7.5.13
Motherboard Blog

There's Microbial Life in Lake Vostok After All

Scientists are sure that this time, they really have found life in the long-isolated, subglacial Antarctic lake.
Ben Richmond
7.5.13
Internet Exploring

What Does the Internet Sound Like in the Club?

Six bangers sampling browsers, modems, and, uh, Angry Birds.
Ezra Marcus
7.5.13
What I Learned About Style…

What I Learned about Style from Bowie and Jagger's "Dancing In The Street"

In 1985, Bowie and Jagger joined forces to create this low budget video. It's rife with erratic dance maneuvers, billowing fabric, and sexual tension, and it is totally worthy of exhaustive dissection.
Dashing Barnett
7.5.13
News

Restore the Fourth Wants the Government to Stop Spying and Lying

Instead of getting drunk and grilling on a roof somewhere, several hundred New Yorkers chose to spend their Fourth of July protesting the establishment of the surveillance state. The rally, along with dozens of others across the country, was organized...
Abby Ellis
7.5.13
Motherboard Blog

This Slow Motion Bullet Time Footage of Fireworks Exploding Is Your "Whoa, Dude" of the Day

This video by Jeremiah Warren checks all the viral video boxes.
Derek Mead
7.5.13
News

Rob Ford's New Music Video Includes Our Photoshopped Image of Him with a Pipe

There's a brand new hit song that's making big viral waves and it's all about how awesome Rob Ford is. It's not sarcastic or satirical. It's literally being played tonight at Rob Ford's party: Ford Fest. But, the music video includes our Photoshopped...
Patrick McGuire
7.5.13
News

Eritrea Has Failed to Realize Its Revolutionary Dream

Once a revolution is over, how do you judge its success? Twenty years ago, Eritrea—in the northeast of Africa—became a legally independent nation, having won its de-facto independence from Ethiopia two years earlier, in 1991. But creating a free and...
Oscar Rickett
Oscar Rickett, Photos: Dan Connell
7.5.13
Design

Mathieu Lehanneur's LED Chandelier Swaps Opulence For Minimalist Design

The designer creates a stunning modern interpretation of a chandelier that snakes through the ceiling in a French chateau.
TCP Staff
7.5.13
News

Trinity Bellwoods Needs Fewer Cops and More Toilets

A report from the community meeting about the growing epidemic of people casually enjoying alcoholic drinks in the sun.
Benjamin Boles
7.5.13
Motherboard Blog

Why Is the Headquarters of France’s PRISM Blurred on Google Maps?

Those in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
Meghan Neal
7.5.13
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