<![CDATA[Gizmodo: Futurama]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Gizmodo: Futurama]]> http://gizmodo.com/tag/futurama http://gizmodo.com/tag/futurama <![CDATA[ Zapp Brannigan Ray Gun For Sale (Only Shot Once At Disgruntled Underling) ]]> If you suffer from that sexiest of learning disabilities (ugh, sexlexia), you too might enjoy shooting off your Zapp Brannigan Atomic Ray Gun at unsuspecting bystanders. The gun itself is based off of Japanese Ray Guns of the 1950s—as is a bunch of the retro stylings of the Futurama set—but updated to include your favorite starship captain. It also comes with a NRRA membership card in case you need to get a table really fast at Applebee's. [Tin Toy Arcade via Nerd Approved]

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Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:30:00 EDT Jason Chen http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5038322&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Futurama: <i>Bender's Game</i> DVD Preview ]]> The second Futurama DVD hasn't even stopped spinning in our drives and we're already looking forward to the third one. It's a much geekier affair than even Futurama fans are used to, as they're delving into the world of Dungeons and Dragons. Will this Ender's Game Futurama movie be any good? We're pretty sure it will, seeing as the Kirk and Spock heads are back, and that was probably one of the best episodes ever.

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Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:00:00 EDT Jason Chen http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022089&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ <i>Beast With a Billion Backs</i>, New <i>Futurama</i> DVD, Out Today ]]> Today is June 24 and, for Futurama fans, that can only mean one thing: the latest offering from Matt Groening and Co. is out today. Beast With A Billion Backs is a "depraved, yet sensuous" episode that, according to head writer and producer David X. Cohen, refers to as "disturbing." (Yay!) "There is certainly more of an adult theme in this film than the average Futurama episode" he adds. With David Cross voicing the Beast (everyone's favorite gymnophobic, Dr Tobias Fünke), Beast With a Billion Backs welcomes back a whole bunch of familiar faces—and voices, which include Professor Stephen Hawking. Trailer is below.

You can get Beast With a Billion Backs here, and expect to see the third DVD, Bender's Game, out towards the end of the year, as it is currently in post-production. [YouTube and Wired]

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Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:00:00 EDT AddyDugdale http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5019096&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Bender Webcam Records You Doing Disgusting Things, Meatbag ]]> benderwebcam.gifReader Matt heard my pleas when I saw the Mr. Burns webcam and decided to take it upon himself to create a one of a kind Bender webcam from scratch. Well, not exactly from scratch—he used a pre-made Bender and a pre-made Creative Live! Video cam—but he did somehow shove the two together to make one insanely great peripheral. What would make this even better than it already is is if Bender could respond to whatever you were doing, ordering you to bite his shiny metal ass or exclaiming that he's back, baby. Nice work, Matt. [EBAY]

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Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:30:00 EDT Jason Chen http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=379614&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ LEGO Futurama Fan Set Makes Official Line a Must ]]> For those of you who run on beer, tell people to kiss your shiny metal ass, and think there's nothing better than LEGO Star Wars or LEGO Space, here's LEGO Futurama. As you will see in the 24-photo gallery after the jump, the Planet Express headquarters features custom detailed minifigs of the main characters.

Unfortunately, it's made by LEGO aficionado Pepa Quin, and not by our favorite Danish company. Fortunately, he included a hypnoto*HUMANS FROM LEGO, MAKE AN OFFICIAL LEGO FUTURAMA LINE NOW* [Brothers Brick]

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Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:10:42 EDT Jesus Diaz http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=371253&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ SLURM IS COMING!! (maybe) ]]> Any fan of Futurama will recognize Slurm as the official soft drink of the 31st century. You remember the slogan—"It's highly addictive." But if a recent trademark filing by Twentieth Century Fox is any indication, Slurm could be coming to store shelves sometime in the less distant future. The "Slurm" trademark includes:

...carbonated and non-carbonated soft drinks; fruit drinks; fruit juices; mineral and aerated water; bottled drinking water; energy drinks; syrups and powders for making soft drinks and other beverages, namely soft drinks, fruit drinks and tea; coffee-flavored soft drinks; Ramune (Japanese soda pops); powders used in the preparation of isotonic sports drinks and sports beverages.
The best part of this is whole scenario is that a bunch of Fox execs and lawyers sat around a board room and discussed the possibility of a future in which Slurm could become one of many "sports beverages." Philip J. Fry, the epitome of an athlete.

While the trademark filing could be defensive in nature, preventing others from marketing Slurms of their own, our stomachs are aflutter at the possibility of ingesting some giant slug ass juice. Who wants to lose some teeth? [trademork via bbgadgets]

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Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:17:18 EST Mark Wilson http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=364083&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Mr. Burns Webcam is Nice, But It's No Futurama ]]> mister_burns_webcam.jpgStaring into Mr. Burns' desk when you're making Skype calls with your friends is nice and all (and for a price of $49 it's hard to argue with it), but it's no Futurama. What we'd really like is a Bender webcam, or a Fry webcam, or a Professor webcam, or a Robot Devil webcam, or a Scruffy webcam—pretty much anything from the Futurama universe. I guess what we're trying to say is that Futurama rules and should not have been cancelled. [ThinkGeek via Random Good Stuff via DVice]

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Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:50:04 EST Jason Chen http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=350747&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Beer-Brewing Bender is How Bender Would Want to Exist ]]> This life-sized model of Bender hides a secret inside, and it's not a hatred of humanity. No, that's no secret. This Bender is also a beer brewer. And you thought Bender couldn't get any cooler.

Inspired from a Futurama episode in which Bender did actually brew beer (Season 3, Episode 12: The Route of All Evil, for those of you keeping track at home), this contraption is a labor of love that's been under construction since this summer. It's really a work of art, looking like it stepped right off the screen. Inside its stomach is the brewing mechanisms and in its head is a functioning computer that plays Bender sayings on command. It even features a cigar that lights up thanks to a handy pen light/felt contraption. And, of course, it brews beer in its belly, which makes it that much better. Totally worth six months of work if you ask me. Be sure to check out the website to see all the detail that went into making Beer Brewing Bender a reality. [Project page]

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Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:15:00 EST Adam Frucci http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=334779&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ <i>Futurama: Bender's Big Score</i> Available Now ]]> The above clip from Bender's Big Score is just a reminder that the Futurama movie's available now! Pick one up at your favorite online store today. We've also got a list of our favorite Futurama gadgets as well, in case you're looking to kill a few minutes before getting off work (and going to buy the Futurama movie).

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Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:00:47 EST Jason Chen http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=327132&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Futurama and the Gadgets of Tomorrow We Love and Fear ]]> In honor of Futurama's bombastic return to the world of tomorrow (Available for just $17.99!), we present to you the gadgets we love and fear from the entire Futurama history. Our list from the cryogenic stasis machine of the first episode to the cryogenic stasis machine featured in the movie (psst, it's the same one!). Yes, we have to admit that being superfans, we already watched the movie three times. Verdict: It's good! Now here are the gadgets we love and fear from the world of Futurama.

futurama-spacepilot3000-2.jpg• Cryogenic Tube (Want): Imaging freezing yourself until Metal Gear Solid 4 comes out, or sticking your dying dog Seymore into stasis until modern science becomes modern enough to fix whatever ails him? The only downside is that your friends and/or wife will get older while you stay the same age.

suicide-booth.jpg• Suicide Booth (Do Not Want): We'd hate to be Superman with his pants down trying to change into his suit in one of these things.

200px-Whatifmachine.JPG• What If Machine (Want): Imagine a machine that could tell you what would happen if you did something. Well you wouldn't have to imagine if you had a What If Machine.

parabox.jpg• Farnsworth Parabox (Do Not Want): A box that lets you travel to an exact opposite dimension as yourself could be fun, what with the perfectly symmetrical violence and all. But if you're not careful, you could be traveling to all kinds of weird parallel universes that have evil versions of you, people with boxes as heads, or even stoners.

scootypuff.jpg• Scooty Puff Junior (Do Not Want): Scooty Puff Junior Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...

holophoner.jpg• Holophoner (Want): Besides being pretty much the hardest instrument ever, you can make a woman fall in love with you just by playing it really, really well (more so than any other instrument). Play it well and you'll make an action/adventure epic with just the air in your lungs and the fingers on your hand. Play it poorly and you'll scare the crap out of kids at your recital. Good day, ma'am.

powder.png• Torgo's Executive Powder (Want): Made of the ground-up remains of Fox Network Executives, Torgo's Executive Powder is great for whatever ails you. We probably wouldn't use the powder—either on our crotches or elsewhere—but it's good to see the execs who cancelled Futurama get what's coming to them.

bender.jpg• Bender (Undecided): Having a robot for a best friend may sound good on the surface, but one that tries to kill you, steals your money, calls you a robosexual, stabs you, punches you in the gut, makes fun of your wiener, and makes you sleep in the closet isn't quite what we're looking for. But hey, he's still Bender, who's the funniest robot we've ever seen, so he's got that going for him.

And for those of you who are wondering if the movie's any good? Yes! It's loaded with tons of in-jokes for fans that have seen every episode (like us). Go order your copy now. Don't make us get Hypnotoad.

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Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:30:43 EST Jason Chen http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=326526&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Futurama Bender's Big Score DVD Trailer ]]> Here's a longer version of the Comic-Con Futurama teaser. The new DVD is coming Nov 27th and we're just thrilled at the opportunity to be disparaged by robots again.

"What's the secret of time travel doing on Fry's ass?"
"It was bound to be somewhere." [via digg]

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Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:51:17 EDT Mark Wilson http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=307974&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Leaked Family Guy Star Wars Scene Shows Slight Computer Knowledge ]]>
There's at least one guy on Family Guy that's used a computer in the last five years, as evidenced by this sneak-peek R2-D2 scene from the new season's first episode airing this Sunday. It's a nice clip both to entertain you for 30 seconds on a Thursday afternoon, and to make you look forward to Futurama's return this November. No offense to Family Guy, but true nerds know which show's made by and for them. [Family Guy]

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Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:50:49 EDT Jason Chen http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=302103&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Die-Cast Bender Turns Head, Turns Heads ]]> Bender. Three inches. Head rotates 360 . Bite his tiny, shiny, metal ass and you'll probably break a tooth. He costs $9.99 and you can see him all tucked up in his retro-ish box after the jump. [Think Geek]


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Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:08:12 EDT AddyDugdale http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=289164&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ The Futurama Trailer ]]> It's shaky, the audio is bad and a few heads block the screen now and again. But it's the Futuruama trailer from ComiCon, celebrating its return to television. Enjoy. [crunchgear]

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Sun, 05 Aug 2007 14:41:23 EDT Mark Wilson http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=286143&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Futurama Back in November as a Feature-Length HD DVD ]]> Cult cartoon Futurama is coming back later this year as a full-length film. The movie, Bender's Big Score, will be available to buy on November 27 as a high-definition DVD, and will be followed by three other feature-length movies. Each movie will, however, be divided into four separate episodes and will be aired on TV.

Comedy Central will be showing the 16 episodes. Not much is known about them, apart from a few juicy tidbits from Bender's Big Score. Apparently it involves nudist aliens and the secret of time travel - which apparently has something to do with Fry's buttock. [TV Squad via Slashdot]

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Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:02:32 EDT AddyDugdale http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=284225&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ The Simpsons Jukebox: Because Matt Groening Needs More Money To Work On Futurama ]]> simpsonsjukebox.jpgDid you know Futurama was coming back for 13 episodes and some straight-to-DVD movies in 2008? It's true. That's why we should all buy this $39.99 Simpsons Jukebox, which is an AM/FM clock radio with snooze, backlight, and knobs on the front.

You may not like the radio, but any cash given to Groening should be used to allow him to spend his time on Futurama instead of working on the Simpsons Movie or any other Simpsons project.

Product Page [Target via Chip Chick]

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Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:15:34 EST Jason Chen http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=242400&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Monkeys Test Robot Arms, Make Jax From Mortal Kombat a Reality ]]> We described how scientists at the University of Pittsburgh were conducting experiments with monkeys controlling robot arms with their brains exactly two years ago, so it feels like the right time to show you the video.

If these test work—which they look like they do, the monkeys are feeding themselves successfully—you too can lop off your own arm, stroll into the emergency room, and feel confident that they'll replace your missing appendage with the robotic equivalent. No wait! We mean in a couple of years!

MOnkey Controls Robotic Arm With Mind [Random Good Stuff]

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Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:00:56 EST Jason Chen http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=238125&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ <i>Futurama</i> Returns! ]]> This is not a gadget proper, but the news of Futurama's return has us all giddy off our arses! Katey Sagal (the voice of Leela) confirmed on Craig Ferguson's show that our favorite animated show is coming back with 13 new episodes for Comedy Central! Then Billy West double confirmed it on his site:
I was waiting for someone else to announce the show's return to television so I wouldn't get clobbered if I had any information that was inaccurate!

Yes— what Katey said is true so there is every reason now (with no
reservations) to go nuts.I'm glad to go back to work on my favorite show!
I'm sure I'll be on a bunch of shows to promote this.I've never seen Craig
Ferguson—what's his story?
Futurama lives!

Billy

Then again, what could be more gadgety than an awesome show about the future!

Bonus Video: Billy West (Fry), John DiMaggio (Bender), and Al Gore promote Gore's new movie.

Billy West (scroll down to a post by "billywest")

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Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:30:58 EDT Jason Chen http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=183043&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Futurama Space 3000 Pinball Machine ]]> As a huge Futurama fan and pinball fanatic, this mod just tickles me pink. This pinball machine began as an old Superman machine and with a lot of beautiful work it is turned into a Futurama themed machine. It even includes an integrated LCD screen showing episodes. This was a six month project by Evan K. Excellent job.

Information Page [Via Techeblog]

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Sun, 05 Mar 2006 13:59:43 EST Travis Hudson http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=158455&view=rss&microfeed=true