Cyriaque Lamar, Author at Gizmodo

Snake becomes trapped in bank ATM, lashes out at customers

We’ve seen Snakes on a Plane, snakes without a plane, and snakes in an MRI. Now, an ornery serpent in Llodio, Spain brings us Snakes In The Automatic Teller Machine. http://io9.com/5698427/watch-scientists-toss-flying-snakes-off-a-49+foot-tower https://gizmodo.com/bat-on-a-plane-snake-in-an-mri-tube-5830640 This (understandably angry) snake was found at a Caja Madrid bank Monday morning. The snake tried to attack bank patrons until the manager…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Nov 2

The 10 Most Explosively Masculine Captain Kirk Battle Techniques

James Tiberius Kirk: lover, explorer, chanteur, a veritable 23rd-century bon vivant. Captain Kirk has many fine traits, but his martial prowess is perhaps most deserving of our fear and respect. Here are 10 fighting maneuvers that should be enshrined by Starfleet as “The Decalogue of Whooping Ass.” 10.) The Slap-Chop As Seen In: “Where No…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Nov 2

Ohio woman claims that ghosts are having sex in her home

Yesterday, we regaled you with the mystery of the Maine blot. Today, even more incontrovertible evidence of the supernatural comes to us from an Ohio Fox affiliate investigating a woman whose house is plagued with amorous ghosts. https://gizmodo.com/maine-courthouse-haunted-by-mysterious-blur-5855274 According to haunting victim Dianne Carlisle, the spirits come from the great beyond to copulate in her…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Nov 2

Bollywood superhero flick Ra.One is like Tron with dance numbers and crotch punches

Well, that’s not entirely true. Calling the new 3D Hindi superhero flick Ra.One the Bollywood Tron or Iron Man would be a bit of a misnomer. The most apt parallel for Ra.One would be Automan, that swiftly cancelled 1983 cop show about a crime-fighting hologram. And like Automan, Ra.One is shitstorm preposterous in all the…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Nov 1

What if Charles Schulz illustrated H.P. Lovecraft?

We’ve seen Lovecraft meet Seuss, here’s the author versus Schulz. And now artist Julien Bazinet has sent the Peanuts gang over the precipice of madness. There’s also a Cthsnoopy t-shirt available. https://gizmodo.com/what-if-dr-seuss-wrote-the-call-of-cthulhu-updated-5847879 Click on the bottom-right corner above to expand. And here are some other times Charlie Brown went to New England and hung with…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Nov 1

Maine courthouse haunted by mysterious blur

Several weeks ago, a motion-sensitive security camera in the Lincoln County Courthouse in Wiscasset, Maine captured footage of a curious splotch traveling down an empty hallway. Nobody was in the courthouse at the time and this mobile blot was filmed in daylight. What will stop the reign of this trespassing smudge? Reports WCSH6: Courthouse workers…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Nov 1

This week, Batman holds his own reenactment of A Christmas Carol

Halloween just finished up, but Batman’s already getting ready for X-Mas. Also, Uncanny X-Men starts at #1 and Hellboy takes up Mexican wrestling. It’s Comics We Crave, liking the feel of the bass in your face in the crowd. First Issues If you’re looking for a wacky science fiction take on the marital culture wars,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Nov 1

The Tower For The Dead, a skyscraper cemetery that goes straight down

We’ve seen concept art for space-saving vertical necropoles and inverted Mexico City skyscrapers before — here’s a design that combines the two. https://gizmodo.com/the-skyscraper-necropolis-of-mumbai-5650134 https://gizmodo.com/the-earthscraper-a-65-story-tall-skyscraper-buried-und-5845777 This is the Tower For The Dead, an 820-foot-deep subterranean complex built to conserve space and provide a burgeoning urban population with a place to bury their deceased. It has themed…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Nov 1

Bone-munching “zombie” worms are eating our whale fossils

After a dead whale falls to the bottom of the ocean, thousands of marine organisms will carve out a home in its carcass. Among these corpse squatters are the Osedax, a genus of marine worms that bores into whales’ bones and feed on the delicious cetacean fats inside. https://gizmodo.com/what-happens-to-a-whale-after-it-dies-as-told-by-puppe-5850150 The physiology of these Osedax “zombie”…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 31

Behold the Louisville Decapitron, a baseball bat/battle axe made for zombie smashing

This is the Louisville Decapitron, a Louisville Slugger baseball bat outfitted with a 20-inch-long, plasma-cut steel blade. A weaponsmith named Gord built this hybrid weapon when he realized he was woefully unprepared for the undead uprising. According to Gord, the axe is there for the undead head-chopping, whereas the blunt side is reserved for jerks…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 31

The folks who made the robot Big Dog are building a real Cylon

Chances are you’re familiar with Boston Dynamics’ Big Dog or its larger cousin Alpha Dog. Now, the roboticists at BD have constructed PETMAN, a six-foot-tall, 180-pound, headless humanoid robot whose potential lies in chemical weapons testing. Notes The Boston Globe: PETMAN – the human-form robot was developed as part of a $26.5 million program for…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 31

The creative team behind The Flash tells us why you won’t see the Scarlet Speedster topless

io9 recently caught up with Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato, the tag-team creative muscle between DC’s relaunched Flash comic book. The guys told us about why classic superheroics are intrinsically all-ages, where Flash’s Rogues are now, and what the future holds for Barry Allen. When you guys had the opportunity to write the Flash, what…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 31

Danger 5, a new deranged spy show from the brains behind Italian Spiderman

If you’ve never seen faux-superhero exploitation flick Italian Spiderman, get your keister over to YouTube and watch that trash opus right now. As for the rest of you, you’ll be thrilled to know that the filmmakers at Dinosaur Worldwide will soon be bringing us Danger 5, a 1960s-inspired World War II espionage Youtube serial about…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 31

A charming music video starring David Tennant and the cast, crew, and aliens of Doctor Who

When David Tennant left Doctor Who , the cast and crew made a music video of “(I’m Gonna Be) 500 Miles” by The Proclaimers for the wrap party. Footage of Tennant hanging with the band surfaced a while back, but here’s the whole shebang. Looking good, Ood. [Via Buzzfeed] UPDATED 10/31: Also, here’s a musical…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 30

On The Walking Dead, Shane rings the dinner bell

Tonight’s episode of The Walking Dead — “Save The Last One” — saw Shane chased by the student-body-eaters of a local high school, Andrea and Daryl go on a soul-searching walkabout, and Lori crib her dialogue from The Road. Mischief Night spoilers on! After a minor lull in full-tilt undead horror last week, “Save The…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 30

The best They Live costumes we’ve seen (that don’t involve sunglasses or bubble gum)

Rowdy Roddy Piper from They Live is one of the great last-minute Halloween costumes, but what if you wanted to be the cheese-dip faces? Kiersten Essenpreis built these fantastic They Live alien faces using basic craft store masks. I would buy one of these bad boys in a heartbeat (but for my morning commute, not…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 30

Puss, Boots, BDSM, and the Plutonic Ideal

The new Dreamworks Shrek spin-off Puss in Boots is about a cat and a hat and is really kind of meritless, unless you’re a member of fursuit fandom who can only appreciate Salma Hayek when she’s a sultry tabby. It’s not greatly interesting, with the remarkable exception that PiB resurrects the strange sado-sexual dynamic from…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 30

Alien ice cube trays allow you to put some H.R. Giger in your piña colada

Do you prefer your scotch neat or with an extremely phallic xenomorph skull? If the answer is in the affirmative, then these ice cube trays by Japanese modelmakers Kotobukiya really belong in your freezer. Click on the lower-right of the above image for the veiny detail. They’re currently on pre-order, and you can find more…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 30

Welcome to the land of houses the size of play forts

We do enjoy some ridiculously small houses here at io9, so we find Derek Diedricksen’s passion for building miniature houses in his backyard rather endearing. https://gizmodo.com/in-the-future-you-will-live-in-a-tiny-little-house-5701745 https://gizmodo.com/someday-your-existence-may-be-condensed-into-27-cubic-m-5799988 https://jalopnik.com/in-this-eensy-weensy-pod-house-your-car-is-your-living-5814007 Yes, Diedricksen’s yard is an incubator for all manner of tiny concept homes. Some of the designs are more deranged than others and they all can be…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 30

Read a seven-page preview of the finale of the Crysis comic book

IDW Publishing has given io9 an exclusive sneak peek of the final issue of the Crysis comic miniseries, as penned by Crysis 2 scribe and Altered Carbon author Richard K. Morgan. The issue hits the stands Wednesday, November 2, and here’s the synopsis: Crysis #6 (of 6) Richard K. Morgan (writer) • Peter Bergting (art…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 30

Cyriaque Lamar

Snake becomes trapped in bank ATM, lashes out at customers

The 10 Most Explosively Masculine Captain Kirk Battle Techniques

Ohio woman claims that ghosts are having sex in her home

Bollywood superhero flick Ra.One is like Tron with dance numbers and crotch punches

What if Charles Schulz illustrated H.P. Lovecraft?

Maine courthouse haunted by mysterious blur

This week, Batman holds his own reenactment of A Christmas Carol

The Tower For The Dead, a skyscraper cemetery that goes straight down

Bone-munching “zombie” worms are eating our whale fossils

Behold the Louisville Decapitron, a baseball bat/battle axe made for zombie smashing

The folks who made the robot Big Dog are building a real Cylon

The creative team behind The Flash tells us why you won’t see the Scarlet Speedster topless

Danger 5, a new deranged spy show from the brains behind Italian Spiderman

A charming music video starring David Tennant and the cast, crew, and aliens of Doctor Who

On The Walking Dead, Shane rings the dinner bell

The best They Live costumes we’ve seen (that don’t involve sunglasses or bubble gum)

Puss, Boots, BDSM, and the Plutonic Ideal

Alien ice cube trays allow you to put some H.R. Giger in your piña colada

Welcome to the land of houses the size of play forts

Read a seven-page preview of the finale of the Crysis comic book

This Memory Chip Survives Temperatures Hotter Than Lava

OpenAI Exec Reveals New Strategy in Leaked Memo: Attack Anthropic

GMKtec G3 Pro Mini PC Gets Nearly 40% Off First for Amazon Prime Members for a Limited Time

Popular Musician Loses Life Savings Through Malicious Crypto Wallet in Apple’s App Store

Peter Capaldi’s Biggest ‘Doctor Who’ Regret Was That He Couldn’t Be a Little Bit Miserable

Some Good News About the Upcoming Atlantic Hurricane Season

Scientists Discover Potential Path to Treating Down Syndrome

Astronomers Just Nailed Down the Universe’s Expansion Rate… and Now They Have More Questions

This BLUETTI Power Station Drops 51%, All-in-One Solution for Camping, Road Trips, Outages, and Home Backup for Less

Of Course That ‘Leaked’ 2026 ‘Winds of Winter’ Release Date Is Fake

Anker’s EufyMake E1 Finally Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages

This Loud-Ass Party Speaker Almost Got Me High AF

Asus Zenbook A16 Review: Start Considering Snapdragon on PC, for Real

Aqara Thermostat Hub W200 Review: Almost Better than My Ecobee

HP Omen Max 45L Review: 4K60 Gaming Has Never Been So Easy

Ecovacs Winbot W3 Omni Review: Window Cleaning Robots Have a Long Way to Go

AirPods Max 2 vs. Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen): Which ANC Headphones Win?

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled