TO SEE MORE BACKYARD ROCKETEER GO TO VBS! http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=17182800001 Of all the things the 50s promised us and then welched on, jet packs are probably the most disheartening (after orgasm pills). Fortunately, however, where the scientific establishment has let us all down, one Mexican home-inventor is picking up the slack. From his backyard in Morelos, Juan Manuel Lozano has engineered and test-flown a stable of rocket-powered conveyances, from rocket belts to bikes to carts to the most ludicrous personal helicopter we've seen this side of Inspector Gadget--each of them powered by his home-brewed ultra-pure hydrogen peroxide jet fuel. He's like a one-man turn-of-the-century flying machine montage (just replace "The Entertainer" with "La Cucaracha").
Watch the entire Motherboard - Mr. Roboto series at VBS.TV starting Monday, April 20th.
PART 2 - http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=1389983290 THE CUTE SHOWCAT CHAMPIONS! Part 1 of 2 The 2007 CFA finals at Madison Square Gardens in New York. What does CFA stand for? Why, Cat Fanciers Association of course. From Host Amy Kellner: We went to the CFA-IAMS Cat Championship at Madsion Square Garden and yes, it was a dream come true. Ironically, I am allergic to cats, and my nose was pretty much sealed shut after five minutes of being there—but wow, was it worth it. Wall-to-wall beautiful cats and the crazy people who love them as far as the eye could see… This is like the biggest thing that’s ever happened to The Cute Show and it’s going to be a two-parter. Here is part one of the excitement, and keep your eyes peeled for a special cameo from a member of one of my all-time favorite bands! Cute Show’s got cool cred, man! xo amy www.VBS.tv
SEE MORE: http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=1509866021 San Francisco graffiti legend Barry "Twist" McGee sits down with Art Talk! for a very special interview done in classic McGee Style. Barry animated the interview and changed up the voices. You know how graffiti heads, not exactly known for being public faces. But check it out, its art meets interview www.VBS.tv
Watch Parts 2 and 3 on VBS.tv: http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=13585914001 For the inaugural edition of Motherboard, VBS journeys to the enchanted realm of Austin, Texas to visit Richard Garriott, aka Lord British. In the early 80s, Garriott used the pile of money he'd amassed as a high-school student selling ziplock-baggied copies of his home-programmed computer role-playing games to start up Origin Systems, the company responsible for Ultima installments III through IX and pretty much single-handedly shaping the world of video RPGs as we (the nerds) know it.
SEE MORE GAMING VIDEOS: http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=17845881001 Stephen Lea Sheppard is responsible for not one, but two of the central figures in the latter-day pantheon of nerds: Harris the dungeon master from Freaks and Geeks, and Heisenbergen-syndrome-afflicted adolescent Dudley in The Royal Tennenbaums. He's also Vice magazine's chief video game reviewer, a job he was offered when we realized that neither of these characters differed in any substantive way from his actual real-life personality. The Gaming Hour is a series of short video reviews of current and upcoming video games shot in Lea's bedroom in suburban Vancouver. It will feature the most detailed analyses of video games anyone has ever heard. http://delllounge.com/blogs/thegaminghour/archive/2009/03/30/episode-1-meet-stephen-lea-sheppard.aspx
WATCH THE REST OF THE SERIES: http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=19261515001 Ray Kurzweil tells us about his vision of the Singuarlityâa point around 2045 when computers will acquire full-blown artificial intelligence and technology will infuse itself with biology. His theories have all sorts of supporters, detractors, and critics, but do you even remember what life was like before three-year-olds had cell phones and you actually had to remember facts instead of relying on the internet? That was only 10 years ago. If Kurzweil is right, we'll have supercomputers more powerful than every human brain on the planet combined within a few decades. Check out more exclusive footage on Dell Lounge: http://delllounge.com/blogs/raykurzweil/archive/2009/04/10/episode-1-two-become-one.aspx
Watch more Motherboard on VBS.tv: http://www.vbs.tv/motherboard Though none other than Judah Friedlander has declared it impossible for androids to cross the Valley of the Uncanny, the creations of Tatsuya Matsui's Flower Robotics just might be the first to make it. The trick is, instead of straining himself against the limitations of technology to invent a robot that flawlessly mimics an ultraintelligent, grown-up human like his peers, Matsui threw in the perfection towel and said "You know what? If the best we can do right now is a robot with the artificial learning skills of a toddler, why not make something that looks and acts like a robotic toddler?" (except it was probably in Japanese). Watch more Motherboard on - www.delllounge.com
SEE MORE: http://www.vbs.tv/shows/hi-shredability/ ******* This week on Hi Shredability we have Pipemaster Jamie O'Brien. We sit down with Jamie and talk about surfing, his new videos, and what's so wrong with having some fun. Also Jamie O’Brien does a rodeo flip of some sort, but reeaal casual. WWW.VBS.tv
In episode 5 we get to know the New Jersey RAW crew, and find out what it's like to surf the brown sludge of Jerz in the winter. School of Surf follows the surfers competing in the 2008 season from beginning to end, documenting all their relationships, family pressures, hilarious teen riffing, wipe-outs, and good rides like some sort of creepy old man.
Ocean City meets the Pacific. School of Surf follows the surfers competing in the 2008 season from beginning to end, documenting all their relationships, family pressures, hilarious teen riffing, wipe-outs, and good rides like some sort of creepy old man.
For more info go to: www.vbs.tv/motherboard SERIES STARTS MONDAY March 2nd. The Body Farm is a research facility started by William Bass in Knoxville Tennessee. This facility allows human decomposition to be scientifically studied in a variety of different settings. The aim is to gain a better understanding of the decomposition process, permitting the development of techniques for extracting certain information (such as the timing and circumstances of death) from human remains.
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Dr. Robert White's Total Body Transplant - Motherboard Trailer
Starts 4.6 http://www.vbs.tv/shows.php?show=11912224001 Check out Dell Lounge for more exclusive Motherboard media - http://delllounge.com/ **************** Robert J. White is the groundbreaking surgeon who in the mid-1970s--against all odds-- pioneered the monkey head transplant, forever changing the face of monkey ownership as we know it. Wait, what's that? Your monkey still has its original head? Wow. Get with the program, choch. But Dr. White's work isn't merely limited to lopping the heads of macaques. He's also performed head transplants on dogs. Even more also, however, he's spent the past half a century exploring the way the brain functions and trying to figure out a way to preserve neurological consciousness when the rest of the body craps out. He is pretty much our favorite real-life mad scientist, and may know more about the rough mechanics of the nervous system than anybody else in his field, AND he was the Pope's personal adviser on bioethics. The Pope! So we decided to visit him at...
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The Amazon's Psychedlic Sapo Frog, The Sapo Diaries
WATCH THE SERIES ON VBS.TV: http://www.vbs.tv/watch/rule-britannia/the-deer-hunter VBS heads into the Amazon on a hunt for its most hallucinogenic tree frogs.
The Hold Steady is everything that VBS loves in a band. Great guys, great songs, and they know how to have a great time. We wanted an excuse to hang out with 'em so we skipped out on an afternoon at work for some nice summer midday drinking and concocted VBS vs. The Hold Steady in bar games. New album is out and it's awesome.
In episode 4 we head back east to hit up the competition in the dirty Jerz! School of Surf follows the surfers competing in the 2008 season from beginning to end, documenting all their relationships, family pressures, hilarious teen riffing, wipe-outs, and good rides like some sort of creepy old man.
TO WATCH THE REST OF THE SERIES GO TO VBS TV - http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=16577943001 If there is anybody working in the field of robotics whose success we are equally amazed by and terrified of, it is Professor Yoshiyuki Sankai. While his colleagues are taking their cues from the more "sophisticated" side of sci-fi like Phillip K. Dick and THX-1138, Sankai has thrown out any pretense of goodwill, naming his company after the fictional cyborg firm responsible for the Terminator and trying to develop his own version of the exoskeleton from Aliens (which he's named HAL, no less).
SERIES STARTS MONDAY MARCH 20! For more go to: http://www.vbs.tv/shows.php?show=1223 Of all the things the 50s promised us and then welched on, jet packs are probably the most disheartening (after orgasm pills). Fortunately, however, where the scientific establishment has let us all down, one Mexican home-inventor is picking up the slack. From his backyard in Morelos, Juan Manuel Lozano has engineered and test-flown a stable of rocket-powered conveyances, from rocket belts to bikes to carts to the most ludicrous personal helicopter we've seen this side of Inspector Gadget--each of them powered by his home-brewed ultra-pure hydrogen peroxide jet fuel. He's like a one-man turn-of-the-century flying machine montage (just replace "The Entertainer" with "La Cucaracha").
WATCH MORE SKATE SNOW SURF VIDEOS ON VBS!!! - Skate Europe is more like a TransEuropean miniseries tour, starting with Britain. We went to the UK to meet with a healthy cross-section of English skateboarding.
SERIES STARTS 5/18 on VBS TV In the 1950s, Brazil decided it would be a perfectly reasonable idea to move the capital to the center of the country's interior plateau (read: nowhere). To facilitate this sensible endeavor they enlisted Oscar Niemeyer - an ardent communist and proponent of modern architecture who, alongside his buddy Le Corbusier, had co-designed the UN building in New York - to build a crazy spacepod city in the middle of the planalto. Watch exclusive clips at Dell Lounge.
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