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Byte The App: Must See Apps Of The Week 6/16

The app stores are teeming with new releases, but who has time to go through them all? We do. Bringing you a selection of the most interesting, creative, and innovative apps each week.
Kevin Holmes
6.16.11
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Doctor Laser

Jason Sapan, as his birth certificate calls him, is sort of like a laser Doc Brown, and his cluttered New York studio-laboratory (replete with devoted interns) feels something like a time machine, a living ode to a seemingly obsolete art.
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
6.16.11
News

Five Reasons For Ayman Al Zawahiri To Be Cheerful

Mac Hackett
6.16.11
Art

The Poetry Of Light: Reactive Light Installation Meets Poetry Performance

Andrea Cuius-Boscarello and Roland Ellis create a sound reactive light canopy to compliment a theatrical performance.
Kevin Holmes
6.16.11
Motherboard Blog

The Engineer Who Taught Computers To Whistle

If computer music had parents, Mathews would be its father, and IBM (which itself turns 100 today) is most certainly its birth mother. In the late 1950's Mathews developed "MUSIC":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSIC-N, the very first digital music...
Janus Rose
6.16.11
Motherboard Blog

Iceland Is Writing Its Constitution On Facebook

In the modern era, how can a troubled nation that’s seeking to overhaul its government reboot its constitution in a way that involves the input of as many citizens as possible? Why, propose to draft the constitution online, and crowd-source the...
Brian Merchant
6.16.11
Motherboard Blog

Ones and Zeros: Rebuilding Japan with Yakuza Bosses and Poo Burgers

_Hey, whatever it takes to get the Belugas to chill out_ h3. ONE: Naked female scientist tries to tame beluga wales in below freezing water ("Daily Mail":http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2004042/Naked-female-scientist-tries-tame-beluga-whales...
Ones Zeros
6.16.11
Design

Beyond The LED: Light-Focused Clothing That's More Than Flashy

Designs and projects that utilize solar power to charge your iPod, react to UV light, or change color in the sun.
Kathleen Flood
6.16.11
Stuff

Drawing In A Warzone

Andrew Cox
6.16.11
News

Much Ado Aboot Nothing

Mac Hackett
6.16.11
Stuff

Jamie Taete's Internet Landfill

More internet misery.
Jamie Lee Taete
6.16.11
Stuff

Pen Pals - Our Visitation Room Is A Real Freakshow

Bert Burykill
6.16.11
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