Game|Life gets an up-close look at the making of Skylanders Giants during a tour of Toys For Bob, the Novato, California-based developer, and its Hawaiian-themed offices.

John McAfee declares his innocence regarding recent murder accusations in an interview with Wired's Joshua Davis.

Check out the PET Bottle Launcher in action.

Don Cheadle and Shane Black discuss Iron Man 3 which is set to be released in May of 2013.

WIRED reviews the Lamy Dialog 3 Fountain Pen Pall

Damon Lavrinc and Tesla Model S owner Konstantin Othmer are using the Sidecar App to pick up passengers around San Francisco and get their first impressions of the car.

Tesla is pushing out one of its most feature-packed updates to Model S owners, with new functions, energy saving settings and --finally -- voice controls.

Water mist shoots out of a stand to create a moving, unique display. Your computer or tablet screen is projected onto the display, and you interact with it just as you would with a touchscreen.

Fred Armisen stopped by the Wired office after the SF Sketchfest tribute to his Peabody Award-winning show Portlandia, and we decided to let our robot Rob-EE do the talking.

The Blacksmith

For this indie-folk band reality is less fart jokes and drug-addled misadventure and more baked goods and early mornings.

Off the upcoming album Wheel. Out April 23rd.

The Brooklyn indie-folk singer and her band build in a little time for rest and recreation during their second time at the hectic music festival.

Last Reef

Excitement on open waters.

Inside Larry Ellison's Insane Plan to Turn America's Cup Into a TV Spectacle

Want to know how a real pro steals our nation's seat of power? Roland Emmerich, allow us to introduce you to General Zod.

Lego unveils a massive full-scale replica of Star Wars X-Wing Fighter in Times Square. This 5.3 million brick behemoth weighs in at over 23 tons and is the largest Lego construction ever built in the world. Before the curtain was opened to the public, Game|Life got a behind-the-scenes first hand look at the mother of all Lego projects.

Go behind the scenes at one of America's most technologically advanced arenas, as an overnight conversion crew transforms Barclays Center from a sold-out concert venue to a basketball stadium for the Brooklyn Nets in only eight hours.

In this episode of The Window, we take you high above the arena floor into the rafters of Barclays Center for a rare view of what it all looks like from the lights.

You've heard music is good for your kid’s brain, but does it matter what tunes you spin? Mr. Know-It-All weighs in on the age-old debate: Led Zeppelin or The Wiggles?

WIRED's new animated series takes you inside the secretive world of a slightly askew NSA, with the eccentric Agent Topple, played by John Hodgman, and his young hacker protégé, Nicole Winters.

Get up close and personal with the folks behind Barclays Center's spectacular overnight conversions. Learn what it takes for their 40-person crew to radically transform this hi-tech arena from a sold-out concert venue into the Brooklyn Nets' basketball stadium overnight.

Agent Topple reveals a few tricks of the pre-digital trade when Winters attempts to explain to him how computers work. Agent Topple is Not Impressed.

Chris Baker is no conspiracy theorist, but finds all these kids' movies where the bad guys turn out to be good guys a tad suspicious. Super villains with a sudden change of heart—or the ultimate scheme to take over the world?

Nicole finally gets a chance to hack into a personal email, only to find herself in the bowels of Agent Topple's locked messages from the 90s. As imagined, this is unfortunate.

Follow a robot as it works its day job—transforming the world of e-commerce by hustling packages around the giant warehouses that propel the modern economy. New robot minions: Welcome to the team.

If founder Elon Musk is right, Tesla Motors just might reinvent the American auto industry—with specialized robots building slick electric cars in a factory straight from the future. That's where the battery-powered Model S is born.

After an urgent alert from the PRISM program followed by a shocking revelation from Nicole, Agent Topple doesn't not panic.

Angry Nerd throws down his rant at Comic Con, he's madder than ever cause this time he can't bring his weapons!

Angry Nerd isn't happy about the upcoming re-boot of the classic 1954 Godzilla, and he tells us all exactly why.

Chris Baker is convinced that Hollywood has gone soft on super villains and responds to comments that either agree with him, or think he looks like one of them.

After recently discovering Winters is actually his supervisor, Agent Topple mobilizes the full power of the National Security State to neutralize this inconvenient threat on his own security. All while catching up on his “stories,” also known to many as the illegal surveillance of private citizens in the comfort of their own home. This is surprisingly stimulating.

Years before he hacked Donkey Kong and became an internet sensation, game designer Mike Mika engineered another epic hack that had an even bigger impact on his life.

Tesla Motors is challenging the giants of the global auto industry with all-electric cars—and a new approach to building them. Take a look at their assembly lines, and the philosophy behind them.

Nicole strikes back with a hefty dose of new-school espionage, but Topple is not to be outdone. Hint: you can't topple Topple 'cuz Topple don't stopple!

Learn the magic formula inside that classic yellow tub. Hint: there’s more to it than flour and water.

All systems are online and it's time to test WIRED'S Giant Robot Mech ... just days before its big unveiling at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con by Adam Savage from MythBusters and Tested. Watch as Stan Winston School and Legacy Effects put the finishing touches on the Big Guy in this penultimate episode of our Geek Week exclusive series.

Preorder a Tesla today—but don’t expect to get behind the wheel for another 2-3 months. We go inside Tesla’s rigorous quality testing that each of its vehicles must undergo before hitting the road. From water and drive tests to a 101-point checklist, see the exhaustive inspection these electric beauties go through.

After Nicole debunks Henry's Buzzfeed logic, he must chose between destroying all electronic music or preserving Downton Abbey.

Topple settles into his new role as a cyber-spy, but hold on to your tequila sunrise: a hangover from his swinging '70s past leaves him odd-man-out at the counter-intelligence key party ... until his target conveniently "disappears."

Hot on the trail of a devastating computer virus, Topple and Winters burn the midnight oil. Are the North Koreans sending encrypted telegrams or has Kim Jong-un taken up beat poetry?

Nicole accuses Topple of treason and Topple plays the class card. But do average Americans really want to live in world where elites are held to the same standards? We think not.

"It's kind of an island; it's own cultural island." In this Chicago minute, we explore the third largest city in the country and it's impact on the arts.

Topple’s bravado is put to the test when his old-school spy game gets the green light. Winters busts out her best pep talk, but can Topple get back to his fighting weight? The fate of the world rests on the shoulders of one man—and his mustache.

James Turrell, in Conversation with Doug Aitken, discusses Roden Crater and his ideology on the horizontal landscape.

Liz Glynn takes us through her installation, a “model of the universe,” that adds layers of information at every stop of the train. The installation changes and expands, moving from the Big Bang theory to Hubble’s expanding universe, and beyond. The dimly lit structure includes a maze of felt walls, with chalk drawings accumulating over the course of the performative lectures given by the artist.

See how the chefs at the Momofuku Culinary Lab create dishes packed with umami flavor!

Amp up the umami at home with this recipe from our friends at Bon Appétit. Alison Roman, in the BA test kitchen, worked with Dan Felder, head of R&D at David Chang's Momofuku Culinary Lab in New York, to develop this recipe for optimum umami pow.

In conversation with Doug Aitken, artist Ariel Pink talks about the layers of his work, and how he uses media to collect his processes.