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Fire in the Screen: The Flash Of Insight That Led Bill Moggridge To Design the Clamshell Laptop

Bill Moggridge, inventor of the laptop "clamshell" design passed away Saturday. His invention defined the portable computer, and his vision of the computer as an interactive device changed how people live.
Mclean Gordon
9.12.12
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Augments An Inquisition Era Church With A Mock Sun And Witchy Shadows

Nave Solar creates an eerie presence in a church, reminiscent of the former heretic inquisitions that once took place there.
Kevin Holmes
9.12.12
Motherboard Blog

The iPhone 5 Will Cause Millions to Junk Perfectly Good Phones But It Will Not Save the Economy

Apple is expected to announce the next generation iPhone 5 today, and as if the usual hype train that accompanies a new Apple release weren't already running off the rails, the "media is now reporting":http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp...
ALEC LIU
9.12.12
Motherboard Blog

With Digitally Trackable Cash, Did We Just Lose Our Last Opt-Out From Surveillance Society?

I had an interesting argument the other day about traffic cameras, and camera tracking/facial recognition in general. The opposing argument was a fairly typical slippery slope type objection -- _now it's traffic tickets, but next it'll be your face...
Michael Byrne
9.12.12
Stuff

The Creators Project: Beijing 2012

The Creators Project just had its third visit to China, where the two-day Beijing 2012 event featured Real Estate, Chromatics, James Murphy, and more.
The Creators Project Staff
9.12.12
Fashion

The Blonds NYFW Show Was the Gayest Thing I've Ever Seen

When I say the Blonds Sping/Summer 2013 show at Milk Studios last night was gay, I don't mean it was, like, Imma-physically-put-my-dick-in-your-booty gay. I just mean it was like over the top, fabulous, firerce, guy-in-dolphin-pants gay.
Wilbert L. Cooper
9.12.12
Music

Projection Mapping Transforms A Studio Into A Train, A Park, A Boat, The Deep Sea, And Outer Space

The video for Willow’s track “Sweater” features a plethora of environments without leaving a studio.
Kevin Holmes
9.12.12
New music

BRTSH KNIGHTS: "If I Was To"

A straight banger from some very mysterious producers.
Jo Fuertes-Knight
9.12.12
The Weird Science Issue

Records

Leave it to an SS-haired boy with a Death in June fixation to teach me about love. And he even did it the old-fashioned way, by dropping a little acid house.
VICE Staff
9.12.12
Film

A Giant Screen Of Water Rising From A Canal Hosts This Abstract Animation

Max Hattler’s X is a kinetic dance of abstract shapes and sounds, projected on a hydro screen.
Kevin Holmes
9.12.12
Music

These Trippy Long Hairs Want to Make 'Palestisrael' Happen

Boogie Balagan's psych-rock dreams of peace in the Middle East.
Milene Larsson
9.12.12
New music

Wiley and J2K Feat. Disclosure: "Tenderly" (Remix)

Wiley and J2K jump on another bouncing bassline from Disclosure.
Kieran Yates
9.12.12
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