Motherboard
As technology advances, the world is always changing. "Motherboard" uncovers stories around the world that help show what is coming next, with new technologies, cultures and discoveries helping to reshape the planet. From real-life cyborgs to guns that can aim themselves, this docuseries illustrates what is waiting for us and why it makes the future both wonderful and... Read all
Genre: Documentary
Cast:Victoria Turk
S1.E1 ∙ The Hunt for the New Physics
The Motherboard visits the CERN's LHC (The Large Hadron Collider), the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, and knows about its facilities, functioning and the people involved in its research, operation and maintenance.
S1.E4 ∙ Our Bionic Bodies
The Motherboard takes a tour through the new technological advances in the field of bionic, the artificial limbs currently available and knows the ongoing researches in this field. The capacity of these artificial limbs to improve the lives of people with missing limbs and to give them back a normal life. The ethical, social and economic issues about future developments in this field, like military use or even the possibility to create limbs that are stronger and capable than biological limbs.
S1.E6 ∙ A Smarter Gun
Motherboard takes a tour among few of the many ideas to make the firearms safer and that can prevent tragic accidents that can cause deaths : a fingerprint reader on the gun's grip, a ring and a microchip implanted in the hand that allow to unlock the gun.
