As we race into the future of space travel, electric cars, and high impact sports, some of our biggest challenges are not actually how we design our future modes of transportation but what we actually build them with. It’s a brave new world, and with a new world, we need new materials. Unlike its soft padded equivalent, syntactic foam may be the material key to protecting ourselves in the future.
Stelarc is not interested in explaining what he is. In 2011 Motherboard met Stelarc, a Greek weirdo who lives in Australia and has been screwing with his body in the furtherance of art, technology,...
John Coster-Mullen is a truck-driver with minimal college education who taught himself how to build the most detailed replica of an A-bomb ever made. "The secret of the atomic bomb is how easy they...
Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, had a thing for nuclear bombs. He wanted them bigger, smaller, faster, used in ways that no one had thought of before or since, and always more of th...
From military weapons expos in Jordan to idyllic SoCal beaches, we caught up with some of those who are building and selling unmanned aerial vehicles all over the world, and even convinced a few co...
Bertrand Piccard wants to fly around the world on a plane with only sunlight for fuel. To fulfill his vision, Bertrand has developed the Solar Impulse, a solar powered, long range glider to fly aro...
Protei is an open source oil spill cleaning robot designed by MIT-dropout Cesar Harada. This sailboat drone is a powerful weapon in the battle to clean up the Gulf of Mexico, while preserving the s...
Today, a fleet of robotic fish of artificial intelligence are protecting the oceans by continually monitoring water quality and collecting regular data on pollution levels to help target clean-up e...
In 1978, Diana Nyad attempted to swim from Cuba to Florida. After 42 hours of turbulent seas and adverse currents, she was forced to abandon the effort. 30 years later, the 60-year-old Nyad came ou...
The Creators Project celebrates visionary artists across multiple disciplines who are using technology in innovative ways to push the boundaries of creative expression.