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3D Projection Mapping Lights Up A Skate Park

The X Games should probably take note.
Fergs Heinzelmann
1.24.12
Motherboard Blog

Programming Note: Goodbye Submission Board, Hello New Twitter Handle

After much discussion, we here at Motherboard have made the decision to take down our post submission board permanently. What started out as a platform for the free posting of new ideas from outside contributors has become just a space for spam posts...
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
1.24.12
Motherboard Blog

Babycastles is Turning the Hayden Planetarium into a Giant Videogame

Remember your first visit to the planetarium? Neil DeGrasse Tyson does -- it was what inspired him to "become an astrophysicist":http://motherboard.vice.com/2010/4/28/the-day-neil-degrasse-tyson-got-a-call-from-the-universe in the first place. That...
Janus Rose
1.24.12
Motherboard Blog

Mushrooms Make You Feel Awesome By Turning Off Your Brain

In this week’s psychotropic drug research news, we now kinda know how psychedelic mushrooms work.
Michael Byrne
1.24.12
Stuff

The Brutality Report - Goddamned Fucking Shit that Doesn't Fucking Work Right

Why can't all machines just work all the time? Why do so many stupid, stupid fucking things always have to not work? Seriously--WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?
Sam McPheeters
1.24.12
Motherboard Blog

Forget the Flare, Now It's a 'Solar Hurricane'

The Sun hates us. Well, not really _us_, because it's a mindless ball of swirling hydrogen atoms being fused together in a million-degree maelstrom. But yeah, according to the news, this current solar flare is causing mayhem. To recap: Today the...
Derek Mead
1.24.12
Design

Call Twitter From A Hacked Rotary Phone [Instructables How-To]

Update your followers on your current mood by dialing up the old fashioned way.
Kathleen Flood
1.24.12
Motherboard Blog

Is Our Universe Leaking Matter?

Maybe, though it's not doing it very fast and the chances of proving it are pretty slim. But it's fun to think about. The idea is that if you generate a strong enough magnetic potential in a region of space, matter might bolt to another universe...
Michael Byrne
1.24.12
Film

Low Budget Sci-Fi Short Looks As Good As Any Mainstream Movie

Aaron Sims’ short film Archetype was made on hardly any money, but looks fantastic.
Kevin Holmes
1.24.12
News

One Thousand Dollars for the Severed Head of Any Policeman

Colombian drug cartels have the strangest ways of dealing with loss.
Henry Langston
1.24.12
Motherboard Blog

Jack Valenti, Hollywood Super Lobbyist, Blamed Money for Ruining Politics

As Hollywood's longtime lobbyist, Jack Valenti fought hard against copyright infringement, once infamously claiming the VHS cassette was as threatening to the film industry and America as the Boston Strangler was "to the woman home alone." But on a...
ALEX PASTERNACK
1.24.12
Art

Strandbeests Are Bizarre Wind-Powered Beach Creatures

These windmill-like kinetic sculptures roam around on beaches, living their own lives.
Kevin Holmes
1.24.12
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