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The Screen of the Future Is Your Living Room

Imagine a video game that's not just confined to your TV screen or the six different ways you can flip your wrist to move the controller. Microsoft gave us a taste of the possibilities of a more immersive gaming experience with Kinect, a smart slab of...
Adam Estes
9.12.12
Stuff

VICE Killed TIFF: Photos from Our Reincarnated Afterparties

What a party.
VICE Staff
9.12.12
Music

We Saw Dirty Projectors' Short Film, 'Hi Custodian'

Thursday night I joined a reasonably packed theatre of white people to catch Dave Longstreth's latest mindfuck, Hi Custodian.
Beca Grimm
9.12.12
Motherboard Blog

Scientists Have a Plan To Power 95% Of the World With Renewable Energy

Renewable energy is the future, sure—but how much of the future could it possibly be? And how soon will that future, the one lined with towering wind turbines and studded with silicon solar arrays, arrive?
Brian Merchant
9.12.12
Photo

Miss Lily's Is Having a Bashment

Miss Lily's Variety is releasing a book of signs promoting parties in Jamaica that we wish we could have gone to. Go check them out at the release party tonight.
Christian Storm
9.12.12
Music

Who Actually Listens to... Skrillex?

Noisey has a new show called "Who Actually Listens To..." about people who actually listen to ridiculous bands. For the first episode, we went to a Skrillex show to find out if the sad-eyed koala bear's fans really are part of a new musical revolution.
Noisey
9.12.12
New music

Jesus Boyz: The New Mixtape From Propr Boyz

Maybe one of the most sacrilegious albums of all time. Still, Jesus is a fan.
Emerson Rosenthal
9.12.12
The Photo Issue 2012

Five Inches of Limbo

These portraits are from Annie’s forthcoming self-published book, 'Five Inches of Limbo.' It was inspired by dolls found in junk stores and Margaret Atwood’s “Five Poems for Dolls.”
Annie Collinge
9.12.12
Motherboard Blog

Robots Want To Compete In the 2050 World Cup

When I was younger I played soccer this time of year, every year. One of my earliest memories of the sport was being confined to playing indoors, where my brother and I shared a similar disdain for the sealed environment which was that, "Indoor soccer...
Daniel Stuckey
9.12.12
Motherboard Blog

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
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