motherboard-videos
Is DIY Brain Shocking the Future of Therapy?
I bought a brain-zapping device from a person on Reddit for a couple bucks. Would strapping batteries to my head hurt me?
Motherboard TV: The Stylophone, the Greatest Little Instrument of the Century
Sure, it looks like an old answering machine, but to serious synth dorks, the Stylophone has full-on legend status. Invented in 1967 by Brian Jarvis, it's an analog synth with a curious interface tweak: you use a stylus to play it. That contributed to...
Motherboard TV: We Talked To Steve Jobs Through A Psychic Medium
It's been exactly a year since California Governor Jerry Brown declared "October 16 to be Steve Jobs Day":http://mashable.com/2011/10/15/steve-jobs-day-california-october-16-stanford/. It apparently was a one year-only holiday, but it still stands as a...
Motherboard TV: Microsound Composer Curtis Roads Produces the Music Computers Hear
_*Welcome back to Motherboard Vault, our weekly digging up of videos from Motherboard's ever-growing library.*_ Just about everybody considers "electronic music" a tired phrase in this era of a million genres and subgenres. It's not that it's a bad...
Motherboard TV: How One Guy Turned Fry Grease Into an Energy Revolution
Despite the best efforts of Republicans in Congress, the U.S. military really "wants biofuels":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/28/the-navy-wants-biofuels-but-congress-won-t-let-it-have-them--2. If the Pentagon ever gets its way, that kind of massive...
Motherboard TV: Cai Guo-Qiang Makes Art By Blowing Shit Up
Jack the Dripper was my favorite artist as a kid, and why wouldn't he be? Could there be anything cooler to a youngster wearing neon Taz shirts than a guy who became a legend for making a huge mess? (I still like Pollock as a grown-up, but now I'd have...
Motherboard TV: Making Slime With Dan Deacon
It was 3pm when we got word that Dan Deacon wanted to hang out with Motherboard. We knew it would be worth it to make the 5 hour trek to Baltimore to check in on Deacon, whose new album “America” launches August 26/27.
Immaculate Telegraphy: Building a Stone Age Electronic Network
Today's the ninth anniversary of the Northeast blackout "that left around 55 million people in the dark":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003. I was comfortably nestled in Northern California back then, and honestly blackouts weren't...
Motherboard TV: Liberia's Only Analog Blogger
I couldn't tell you the last time I sat down and read a magazine or newspaper section from front to back, but it's been half a decade at least. Partly it's because a few of my favorite magazines have died, and partly because the job description of an...
Motherboard TV: The Exoskeletons of Tokyo's Cyberdyne
The only thing holding me back from being a cyborg -- aside from cost, science, a robo-averse girlfriend, and a fear of being stared at -- is the fact that once you go bot, you probably can't go back. I like being flesh and blood, even if my old sack...
Motherboard TV: The Living House
You ever sit around staring at your little tank of Sea Monkeys wondering when they're going to build a civilization and massive rectangular buildings in your honor? Yeah, me too, but they never do.
Motherboard TV: Inside the Large Hadron Collider
Tomorrow, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is set to announce some of the most highly-anticipated — and poorly-embargoed - findings in recent memory: evidence of the existence of the Higgs boson. Now, we won’t know for sure until...