Alien depicts a future with space travel that's gritty, dark and realistic. These space travelers aren't heros; they're blue collar workers just trying to do their jobs. Which makes the attack by an acid-blooded alien that much more terrifying.

The ship, the Nostromo looks like what it is: an oil rig in space. It looks incredibly realistic, especially for when it was made. Sure, they control the ship using outdated CRT monitors, but Ridley Scott was clearly influenced by Stanley Kubrick's realism in 2001. He just added pants-shitting terror to that realism.

And while both sci-fi franchises have pumped out regrettable sequels since the originals hit, both have had a huge influence on sci-fi movies since then. Star Wars may have redefined all movies set in space, but it took Alien to make space so goddamned scary.

Gizmodo '79 is a week-long celebration of gadgets and geekdom 30 years ago, as the analog age gave way to the digital, and most of our favorite toys were just being born.

Oh. Oh that's what it is. A cybernetic pop-up penis. [SheCoolHeCool via Fashionably Geek]

From inside to out, the Klein Bottle experimental house plays with the theme of a mathematical puzzle that manifests in an interesting hodgepodge of geometry. But cleverly hidden within these angles and crevices is a rain water collection system and solar paneling (because aliens hate to pollute).

So be honest, readers. Would you live in a house that looked like this? And if so, would you be willing to transplant it into any normal housing development? Or would you need to be part of some off the grid martian colony? [dornob via io9]

One tattoo artist/case modder molded this Alien PS3 out of super heated epoxy putty—a material that required a few sacrificial burns before becoming immortalized as a 1979 horror flick creature.

Apparently the material cools to become as hard as metal, so it's impossible to remove it from the PS3's case. Can you imagine the face on some Sony tech who opens a box to find this system for repair? Well I can. And it's hilarious. [Cyberpunk Review via technabob]

The alien is made around a steel armature, with a fully-posable tail, resting on top of a 4 by 2-feet wood base. The head is made of resin and rigid foam, with a vacu-form dome. The body and tails are made of latex and polyfoam. All this plus a potential heart attack will only cost you $5,200, drooling gel not included. [The Contaminated]

If humans do start charging the batteries of an alien robot, Astronomer Jeffrey Bennett doubts it will resemble the tryst between Dr. Gaius Baltar and Number Six. "I think people get it wrong when they assume the aliens will be young lovelies," Shostak said. Instead, experts like David Levy-who's job is to write papers about humans and robots getting it on (TRUE!)-says we'll approach our love-making like we do our cars, with human-machine hybrids. And then we'll marry them. "My forecast is that around 2050, the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize marriages with robots," Levy said.

But enough fluff. In the end, a majority of researchers agree that the sure bet on alien life is with tiny microbes buried beneath the red sands of Mars or under the ice of our solar system's many moons. Then a whole new slew of questions will arise to muddy the issue. What defines life? Did it start on Mars? Does that make humans the real aliens? On second thought, forget the hot humanoid robots-I'm having an existential crisis here. [MSNBC]

It's the love doll they never wanted you to know about! For years they've locked it away, kept it classified and tried to prevent man from enjoying extraterrestrial pleasure. Now you can experience what humans have fantasized about for decades...incredible sex with an alien! It's pussy-shaped mouth, 3 supples breasts, suction cup fingers and ass-shaped ears make it the kinkiest love slave in the galaxy.

Suctioncupfingersthreeboobedpussymouthvinyl? I'll be there like shareware. Buying one now. Test with me, Addy, and possibly the dog, soon. [Sextoy via Nerd Approved]

Er, shouldn't that be the Al Jabba gallery? [Hombre Lobo via Boing Boing]

Samsung had put up the obligatory home cinema setup. We went in and braved the movie version of Phantom of the Opera. And do you know what? It kicked ass. This projector was not a case of style over substance, actually, it was very good quality - and on a big screen.

It will be out in October in Europe. The SP-A800B will cost 4,999 ($6,818,) while the smaller SP-400B —which we didn't get to see in action— is going to be 1,499 ($2,044.). The good news: there was a Samsung guy who just came up from the US and he told us to expect pretty much the same kind of price over here, around mid-october, just in time for the holiday season.