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User Preferences: Tech Q&A With Graphics Designer Jean-Michel Verbeeck

Each week we chat about the tools of the trade with one outstanding creative to find out exactly how they do what they do.
Kevin Holmes
4.18.12
Motherboard Blog

Metamaterials Are the Wolf in Electromagnetic Clothing

Invisibility is one of the oldest concepts in our mythology. Years before Harry Potter put on his cloak or Tom Cruise pranced behind an invisibility tarp, Plato recounted the myth of the ring of Gyges, a poor and honest shepherd who discovers a ring...
Zak Kiernan
4.18.12
Music

Mimic Is A Series Of Ultra-fast Visual And Sonic Eruptions

Take time out to experience these two minutes of madness.
Kevin Holmes
4.18.12
Music

White Lung Is Playing in NY This Weekend

Hot Canadians screaming in your face. It's a date!
Kelly McClure
4.18.12
Motherboard Blog

Ditch the Electrical Umbilical

For those of you keeping track at home, this is apparently the sort of electro-intestinal carnage that one can expect from a years-long Royal Rumble starring, in no particular order, one high-definition television, one Nintendo Wii, one Blu-ray player...
Trevor Macomber
4.18.12
Design

Designer Werner Aisslinger Grows A Chair In His Greenhouse

We grow our own vegetables, so why not furniture?
Kevin Holmes
4.18.12
From Sea to Shining Sea

Let's Leave the Spiritual Bullshit Behind

And head instead to Vegas.
Conor Creighton, Photos: Kendall Waldman
4.18.12
Music

Making Friends at Coachella

If your genitals were an artist performing at Coachella, who would they be?
Sophie Saint Thomas
4.18.12
Stuff

Hot Dog and the Lady Bun - Parlez-Vous Romance?

Want to attract a foreigner on the street? Ask them for directions on a map of Florida. It might be confusing, but it’ll let them know you’re easily lost and like things shaped like a dick.
Kurt Braunohler and Albertina Rizzo
4.18.12
Motherboard Blog

The Energy Fixers

"The Energy Fixers," a documentary on two pathbreaking projects kickstarted by ARPA-e, the Dept. of Energy's advanced projects funder: a biofuel derived from seaweed and a wind power system that's dramatically more efficient than conventional turbines.
Derek Mead
4.18.12
Film

Vincent Morisset Discloses The Secrets Of Interactive Filmmaking

The filmmaker and interactivity pioneer shares some of his wisdom in designing non-traditional narratives.
Inge de Leeuw
4.18.12
Motherboard Blog

In the Search for Extraterrestrial Life, We Really Are All Star Stuff

Scientists are starting to think that the Sun is the root of all life.
Amy Shira Teitel
4.18.12
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