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Design

Makerbot Is Making Mp3 Players Relevant Again With 3D Printing

With the help of Makerbot, you can 3D print an mp3 player that looks like your face—or just about anything.
Michelle Lhooq
8.8.12
Music

Olympic Track Cycling Gets Converted Into A 3 Minute Tron-Inspired Spectacle For The Chemical Brothers' "Velodrome"

Feast your eyes on this new animation from Crystal CG.
Sami Sharaf
8.8.12
Comics!

Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #67

Greetings my nonconventional conventioneers. This is my weekly comics column for VICE where I showcase things of interest within the confines of comics, illustration, fine art, and anything involving paper goods.
Nicholas Gazin
8.8.12
Tech

Narco Surveillance Is Predictably Shady

No one really knows who's hooking up Mexico with $350 million in border-spying gear.
Brian Anderson
8.8.12
Motherboard Blog

Why We Should Be Drinking Our Own Pee

With half the country plagued by drought and a global water crisis around the corner, do you ever feel like flushing your piss down the toilet is wasteful? (Pun intended.) What if science made a magical machine that could that urine back into drinking...
Adam Estes
8.8.12
Music

Talking About Rap and Rapping with YC The Cynic

YC The Cynic is not very good at ping-pong. I know this, because last month YC The Cynic and I met to play ping-pong together at SPIN NYC and I beat him three times in a row.
Drew Millard
8.8.12
Stuff

I Rode in a Zeppelin and Didn't Burn to Death

I was on the balcony smoking a post-bong-hit cigarette when I looked up at the sky and saw a huge blimp-type vehicle bobbing silently overhead. My childhood dream was about to come true. I was going to ride in a motherfuckin' Zeppelin.
Tanja M. Laden
8.8.12
Motherboard Blog

Let's Visit Venus with This New NASA Rover

We've all been basking in Mars love for the last few days, and good. Landing the most sophisticated Mars rover ever built on the red planet earned Science some well-deserved headlines this week, and helped rekindle our somewhat lapsing national love of...
Brian Merchant
8.8.12
Stuff

Hey Atheists, Just Shut Up Please

I speak of a subtype of militant atheists who I’ll call the “Reddit Atheists.” It’s not enough that they don’t believe in God, they want to make sure you don’t believe in God either. Just by being themselves, they make the best case against humanism.
Luke Winkie
8.8.12
Stuff

How Can I Be More Jamaican?

Jam-Rock's Independence celebrations are giving me an identity crisis, so I phoned up my Nana to reconnect with my roots.
Sheree Millington
8.8.12
Fashion

Fashion People Think "Chic" Makes Bad Stuff OK

I once heard a woman describe some vegan wellington boots she'd just bought as "très eco-chic." I'm almost 100 percent certain I've never heard anyone utter something that made me want to want to redecorate the garage Cobain-style as much as that.
Jamie Clifton
8.8.12
Stuff

The Tale of the Boy Who Dared to Defy Coca-Cola

Back before Arabs had a Spring, the great war of the 90s was the war over branded public space. Nobody remembers it now, but Mike Cameron was the self-immolating Tunisian fruit seller of his day.
Gavin Haynes
8.8.12
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