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Pentizel World-Building Sketches and Stuff

The rogue surgeon who operates on Pentizel to enhance her human qualities works out of an abandoned bus in a junk yard. Entrance to Biohabitat Gentech Gene Lab Gentech Gene Lab Gentech Reception Pentizel’s Hideaway Hideout Pentizel’s Lair Pentizel’s Lair Pentizel’s Lair Needle Gun Needle Gun Offices Omninet Building Omninet Building Omninet Console Omninet HQ…

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Rolling Stone crowns Peter Dinklage our new rock star

Check out “Master of the Game” Peter Dinklage, on the cover of Rolling Stone. Notice that he’s on the cover alone. No naked Danny clutching and wailing about her dragons, no King Joffrey slicing and dicing his people, not even the skinny hipster boy from The Wall Jon Snow — this cover is all Tyrion…

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10 Ridiculously Unsettling Old-Timey Robots

Nowadays everyone hems and haws about the uncanny valley, but we don’t realize how good we have it in the 21st century. Decades ago, anthropomorphic machines and animal-like automata straddled the line between goofy and “I did not sign up for this.” Here’s some irrefutable proof that machines have been planning our collective demise for…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The Classic Origins of Today’s Hollywood Design

Science fiction and fantasy continue to rule at the movies — and with their reign comes a lot of nostalgia for the futuristic designs of yesteryear. Today’s movies are full of cool retro design elements — just check out our collection to nods to the pasts in new and upcoming movies, from Prometheus, Men In…

io9 Meredith Woerner

This guy hand-forged his own wedding ring. OUT OF A METEORITE.

That’s it. Game over. You will never have a wedding ring cooler than that of redditor laporkenstein. Not only did he fashion the band himself, in the formidable fires of… well… his garage — he forged the damn thing out of a chunk of meteorite. (A Gibeon meteorite, to be exact.) Laporkenstein… you, sir, are…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Robots could soon be probing your brain

To figure out how your brain works, researchers need to be able to measure the electrical activity of neurons. But now, a new method allows robots to perform the task instead. Your brain and nervous systems are made up of neurons, sending and receiving the electrical signals that let us breathe, move, think, remember, and…

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Nebraska man legally changes name to Tyrannosaurus Rex, is instantly cooler

He used to go by Tyler Gold, but a 23-year-old Nebraska man shall henceforth be known by his official title of Tyrannosaurs Rex Joseph Gold. According to Nebraska’s York News-Times: Gold appeared in York County District Court Monday morning, before Judge Alan Gless who heard the unusual request. In Gold’s official filing with the court,…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Medical predictions for the 21st century from 1955 were equal parts inspiring and gut-busting

It’s fun to reflect on the past’s starry-eyed visions of the future. We all know this. But reviewing retro-futuristic predictions in the field of medicine is always especially entertaining. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-retro-futurism-5908064 Many predictions for the future from the 1900s are positive, but few are as hopeful and confident as those pertaining to medicine. Many are quick…

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An unapologetically reductionist cartoon about Australian wildlife

In case you’re unaware, Australia bears the mildly unfair reputation as a continent brimming with freaky fauna. And as artist Katie Lisk explains of this webcomic, “My boyfriend has decided he wants to move to Australia. I decided to make some scientific depictions of what life there would be like.” The stonefish in the mailbox…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Nerdgasm Alert: Full Size Lego Avengers Props!

Ken Robichaud has created these awesome, full-sized Avengers props in Lego: Thor’s Mjölnir, Captain America’s shield, Hawkeye’s bow and arrows and the Black Widow’s thingamajigs. They are perfectly made. The arch even bends like the real thing! (nerdy scream). My favorite is that Captain America’s shield. I’d love to hang it in my apartment. [Flickr]

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Why Space: 1999 is Still Retro Cool

People sometimes dismiss Space: 1999 as a fatally kitschy space adventure, full of unconvincing aliens and wah-wah guitar histrionics. But many of the design elements of Space: 1999 still look incredibly cool today. Like the above lamp, the Sorella Lamp created by Studio Tecnico Harvey, which is now considered a prime example of 1970s retro…

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Everything you need to know about crapping at the opera before 1830

In case you were wondering how people evacuated their bowels at the London theater in the 19th century, Dr. Michael Burden of the University of Oxford has you covered with his new paper, “Pots, privies and WCs; crapping at the opera in London before 1830.” In this edifying study of sanitation in a more fragrant…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

A New Translation of The One Russian Science Fiction Novel You Absolutely Must Read

If you’re going to read just one Soviet-era Russian science fiction novel, it should be Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s dark, ambiguous Roadside Picnic. Originally written in the early 1970s, it’s back in print in English after 30 years, with a brand-new translation by Olena Bormashenko and a riveting afterword by Boris Strugatsky about how the…

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Behold a Batman helmet right out of the 1920s

If Batman hung out in the Jazz Age, his headgear might look like this helmet built by the Ukrainian costume crafters at Bob Basset. This Dark Knight reminds me of Paul Pope’s “Batman of Berlin.” I imagine this Batman spends his time punching out bootleggers moving barrels of rectitude-poisoning Jokerbräu to Gotham’s Tin Pan Alley,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Kick-Ass 2 is really happening. Plus Leonard Nimoy and John Noble take you inside Fringe!

Find out how Avengers 2 will come out of a whole new raft of solo superhero movies. Chloe Moretz talks Dark Shadows and the Carrie remake. James Cameron still hasn’t abandoned Battle Angel Alita. New videos for Brave, Men in Black 3. Plus intriguing spoilers for the Once Upon a Time finale! Spoilers from here…

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Easily the most insane animal footage ever caught on an undersea camera

If you thought those submersible videos of swordfish and sperm whales were something special, here’s something right out of The Abyss. https://gizmodo.com/heartwarming-video-robotic-claw-saves-trapped-swordfis-5575591 A remotely operated underwater vehicle caught this creature floating around in the brine — commenters on YouTube are positing that it’s a specimen of the Deepstaria enigmatica jellyfish, whereas other folks on Reddit…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Picture of the Day: May 8, 2012

YOU’LL BELIEVE A FORTRESS CAN FLY | Concept art for the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier from the Avengers by Nathan Schroeder, which was sent to us by production designer James Chinlund to add to our piece about the design secrets of The Avengers, along with another piece of Helicarrier concept art. See the other piece of new…

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Did the Germans launch a crewed rocket into space in 1933?

On October 29, 1933, the London Sunday Referee published a report from Rugen, an island in the Baltic Sea, just off the coast of Germany. Someone named Otto Fischer had flown inside a 24-foot steel rocket, to an altitude of six miles. Were the Germans really testing out a rocket that could carry people, nearly…

io9 Ron Miller

Behind-The-Scenes snaps from Ridley Scott’s Alien reveal the real Xenomorph

We’re totally mesmerized by this collection of behind-the-scenes images from Ridley Scott’s Alien — especially the photo of the original occupant of the Xenomorph costume! Just imagine what stories he could tell. Take a look at this awesome (new to us) collection of Alien images — including some of the space cat! Thank you for…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Science Fiction and Fantasy Books You Can’t Afford to Miss in May

May brings lots of amazing science fiction and fantasy books — including new titles from China Mieville, Kim Stanley Robinson and Charlaine Harris! You don’t want to be the only one of your friends who isn’t up to date on the latest happenings in far-future empires, brutal fantasy warfare, and the depths of weirdness. Here…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders and Kaila Hale-Stern

Pentizel World-Building Sketches and Stuff

Rolling Stone crowns Peter Dinklage our new rock star

10 Ridiculously Unsettling Old-Timey Robots

The Classic Origins of Today’s Hollywood Design

This guy hand-forged his own wedding ring. OUT OF A METEORITE.

Robots could soon be probing your brain

Nebraska man legally changes name to Tyrannosaurus Rex, is instantly cooler

Medical predictions for the 21st century from 1955 were equal parts inspiring and gut-busting

An unapologetically reductionist cartoon about Australian wildlife

Nerdgasm Alert: Full Size Lego Avengers Props!

Why Space: 1999 is Still Retro Cool

Everything you need to know about crapping at the opera before 1830

A New Translation of The One Russian Science Fiction Novel You Absolutely Must Read

Behold a Batman helmet right out of the 1920s

Kick-Ass 2 is really happening. Plus Leonard Nimoy and John Noble take you inside Fringe!

Easily the most insane animal footage ever caught on an undersea camera

Picture of the Day: May 8, 2012

Did the Germans launch a crewed rocket into space in 1933?

Behind-The-Scenes snaps from Ridley Scott’s Alien reveal the real Xenomorph

Science Fiction and Fantasy Books You Can’t Afford to Miss in May

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

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Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

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