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The Flaming Lips Compose Consumer Electronic Music

The Flaming Lips weave a tapestry of madness with consumer electronics.
CREATORS PROJECT
2.28.11
Art

Fabricate Yourself Installation Is Like A Sculptural Polaroid

Visual data is captured using the motion sensor of a Kinect, then fabricated into a 3×3cm plastic portrait.
Kevin Holmes
2.28.11
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On The Other Other Hand: How to Finally Get That Extra Limb You've Always Wanted

The mind, it seems, is not constrained by the four-limbed body plan it’s used to growing up with: there’s room in our brain’s blueprint of the body for more stuff.
SAM MCDOUGLE
2.28.11
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The Double Helix Was Discovered 58 Years Ago Today

58 years ago today, scientists James Watson and Frances Crick announced that they had determined the structure of DNA, the nucleic acid that contains our genetic blueprint. This BBC documentary takes us through 50 years of research from the...
Videodrome
2.28.11
Music

Selling Myself As A Sex Slave For Music Reviews

Who knew so many Less Than Jake fans would be into fucking slaves?
DOM PASSANTINO
2.28.11
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BRANDON FONVILLE
2.28.11
Motherboard Blog

Shuttle Launch Makes For Excellent In-Flight Entertainment

"NeilMonday":http://www.youtube.com/user/NeilMonday had the rare opportunity of experiencing Space Shuttle Discovery's final launch from tens of thousands of miles up in the air.
ALEC LIU
2.28.11
Music

British Sea Power Live Webcast With Augmented Kinect Visuals

The band will perform live from London’s Roundhouse, broadcasting the show over the web with visuals made using Microsoft’s motion sensor.
Kevin Holmes
2.28.11
Music

Dancing To The Sound Of Shadows

Sembler map the visual movements of shadow puppets, using visual data to generate a real-time soundtrack to accompany a performance.
Kevin Holmes
2.28.11
Motherboard Blog

Our "Original Sin" Will Destroy Us

Now that the fittest have survived, their genes will destroy us. So says Nobel winning biologist Christian de Duve who believes that an innate unerring will to survive is the ultimate foundation of human extinction -- we are myopic victims of our own...
ALEC LIU
2.28.11
Film

Korean Experimental Films Win Big At Berlinale

Brothers, Park Chanwook and Park Chankyung take 1st place with their smartphone film and Yang Hyojoo receives 2nd at The 61st Annual Berlin International Film Festival.
Kyuhee Baik
2.28.11
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Minecraft's Riches: How One Guy Is Building A Gaming Empire, Block By Block

Ever since its overnight success, players of the "millions-selling":http://motherboard.tv/2010/9/23/indie-world-building-game-minecraft-now-raking-in-250k-per-day sandbox game _Minecraft_ have built all kinds of things: Rollercoasters, functioning...
Janus Rose
2.28.11
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