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Gifts For Star Wars Fans

Imperial Walker Lawn Ornament Perfect for your friends who live in snowy climes. Make it Hoth for them! DIY Charm Bracelet From ThinkGeek… your friends will be excited to have Darth Vader and R2 on their wrists. Star Wars Rebels Action Figures A brand new TV series means brand new action figures, and Hasbro has…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Six Steps to a Better Material World

Over the course of the last century, the exponential expansion of industry has seen the production of materials like steel, aluminum, cement and plastics skyrocket. It is estimated that the amount of these so-called energy-intensive materials produced every single year comes to 10 times the total weight of every living person on Earth, and accounts…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Gifts For Star Trek Fans

U.S.S. Reliant 1:350 Scale Artisan Replica From Quantum Mechanix. It’s only $4,995.00, so you may have to ask yourself just how much you like your friends. Starship Reliant 1:250 Scale Replica Or if you really like your friends, you can get them the $10,000 version, which is even more insanely detailed. Star Trek: TOS Slippers…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

From the maker of the “psychic tire” movie Rubber comes another demented movie, Wrong

Quentin Dupieux’s latest film Rubber, (about murderous car tire that kills people with mental powers) looks like Marmaduke after watching the trailer for his next feature Wrong. Clearly Dupieux’s only motive is to just mind-fuck the audience into oblivion. Watch the trailer now. http://io9.com/5531597/rubber-a-superhero-movie-about-a-tire-that-kills-with-its-mind-no-really?tag=rubber&autoplay Here’s the Sundance Synopsis: WRONG / France (Director and screenwriter: Quentin…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Gifts For Doctor Who Fans

Glowing TARDIS Rooftop Macbook Decal Stand out from all the Snow Whites on every other Macbook in town, with a TARDIS whose light actually glows. Dalek Security Patrol Ship This is just hella cool — one of the Dalek ships that surrounded Gallifrey during the Time War, recreated in loving detail. With a Dalek inside,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

We Warned You: Watchmen 2 is really happening.

DC Comics is really going forward with the Watchmen tie-in project that everybody’s calling Watchmen 2, as we warned a while back. Bleeding Cool’s inside sources tell them that Andy Kubert will draw one of four prequel miniseries, each of which tells a story about a different character from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ masterpiece.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Own a Piece of Magic, and Help Author/Editor Terri Windling

Terri Windling has given a lot of happiness to fantasy readers, with novels like The Wood Wife and collections like the Bordertown series. Now here’s your chance to come to her rescue — Windling is facing health and legal issues that have caused her a lot of financial distress — and some of our greatest…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Sustainability Science: How to Create a New Research Field

If the world needs a new field of science, can you simply create one from scratch? That’s the question of a group of researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The scientists recently chronicled the twenty-five year journey of sustainability science, a newly coined field with the goal of advancing society without destroying our planet.…

io9 Keith Veronese

The “Amazing” Sixfinger: the Most Disturbing Toy that You Probably Never Owned

The 1960’s were a much simpler time — a time when cowering beneath your school desk was still considered a good way to protect yourself in the event of a nuclear air strike, and a child palming a decidedly phallic object could just as easily pass for having a sixth finger. Wait, what? Seriously, though.…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Easily hypnotized people can hallucinate colors whenever they want to

There’s thirty-four years of Jedi mind tricks telling us that the highly suggestible are, well, weak-minded. But now new research suggests the easily hypnotized actually have some unusual mental powers. Specifically, they can hallucinate any color they want — whenever they want. That’s the finding from a new study at the University of Hull in…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

10 Bizarre Names and Strange Origins of Real Molecules

Everybody knows that scientists have an unconventional sense of humor — and paleontologists and astronomers are known for naming some of their discoveries in a whimsical fashion. But chemists and biochemists are required to stick to a strict set of naming conventions. Nevertheless, sometimes researchers get a little freedom and give a molecule a clever…

io9 Keith Veronese

Breakthrough technique could give us molecule-thick circuit boards

Graphene is incredibly cool stuff: a sheet of interlocking carbon atoms, only one atom thick. It’s an extremely interesting material, and a newly pioneered technique has created a way of painting stripes on the graphene sheets to change its functionality. That representation of an owl you see above was created by adding hydrogen atoms to…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Thark Yeah! 30 John Carter screencaps reveal the secrets of Mars

You’ve seen the mayhem-filled new trailer for Disney’s John Carter — now let’s pick it apart and study all the awesome details — such as horrific piles of burning bodies, Martian puppies… and a wedding! https://gizmodo.com/full-john-carter-trailer-shows-off-the-screaming-hordes-5864068 And we’re off. Behold the giant Thark arena that appears to be carved right out of the landscape. Which…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The Sheer Poetry of the Dragonfish in Space, its Mouth Full of Baby Stars

The biggest batch of young stars in our galaxy form inside the mouth of the Dragonfish. The ‘fish’ is a gas shell of material around the newly-forming stars. It was named by Doctor Mubdi Rahman, of the University of Toronto, who was inspired by Peter Shearer’s portrait, entitled Black Dragonfish. The shell was discovered when…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Breakthrough: Gene Therapy Provides Full Protection from HIV Transmission in Mice

For hundreds of years, immunization has been one of society’s most elegant and dependable methods of disease prevention. Vaccines have been developed for infections ranging from measles to HPV. Many of us get vaccinated to protect ourselves against seasonal illness, or before traveling internationally. Vaccination is safe. It is dependable. It works. So in the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Researchers have identified poo-flinging as a sign of intelligence (in chimpanzees)

Be honest. When you rolled out of bed this morning, who among you thought they’d be reading about the neuroanotomical correlates of poo-flinging in chimps today? In a study published in the latest issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, psychobiologist Bill Hopkins and his colleagues report that poo-flinging (and any-other-object-flinging) is, in…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Ask Ekaterina Sedia anything you want about Heart of Iron

In November, the io9 Book Club read Ekaterina Sedia’s Heart of Iron. Now Sedia is coming to answer your questions about the book tomorrow, Friday, December 2. https://gizmodo.com/the-io9-book-club-is-in-session-lets-talk-about-ekater-5863601 She’ll be popping into the comment thread on this very post on Dec. 2 between 7:00-8:00 PM Pacific Time. Start posting your questions for her now, and…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Create fiery plasma and lightning, with a single grape

Plasma is what’s responsible for St Elmo’s Fire. It’s the solar wind that whips through our planetary system. It’s part of the ionosphere. It’s part of the sun. And you can create it in your microwave, with a grape (provided you have no further use for either the microwave or the grape.) Plasma is what…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Rare Empire Strikes Back interviews reveal very different plans for the Star Wars prequels

The cast of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back did a series of interviews promoting the film, and the video is pretty revealing. The best part: Mark Hamill discusses speculation that his son Nathan could play a young Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars prequels. According to Hamill, the prequels would take place 20 years…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Major casting updates for the Star Trek sequel and Ender’s Game!

Another day, another supposed description of the Dark Knight Rises prologue. Avengers costar Jeremy Renner explains Hawkeye’s appeal. Game of Thrones might feature a genuinely unexpected plot twist. Darren Aronofsky looks for a new star for his bible epic Noah! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from The Avengers. The Dark Knight Rises I…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Gifts For Star Wars Fans

Six Steps to a Better Material World

Gifts For Star Trek Fans

From the maker of the “psychic tire” movie Rubber comes another demented movie, Wrong

Gifts For Doctor Who Fans

We Warned You: Watchmen 2 is really happening.

Own a Piece of Magic, and Help Author/Editor Terri Windling

Sustainability Science: How to Create a New Research Field

The “Amazing” Sixfinger: the Most Disturbing Toy that You Probably Never Owned

Easily hypnotized people can hallucinate colors whenever they want to

10 Bizarre Names and Strange Origins of Real Molecules

Breakthrough technique could give us molecule-thick circuit boards

Thark Yeah! 30 John Carter screencaps reveal the secrets of Mars

The Sheer Poetry of the Dragonfish in Space, its Mouth Full of Baby Stars

Breakthrough: Gene Therapy Provides Full Protection from HIV Transmission in Mice

Researchers have identified poo-flinging as a sign of intelligence (in chimpanzees)

Ask Ekaterina Sedia anything you want about Heart of Iron

Create fiery plasma and lightning, with a single grape

Rare Empire Strikes Back interviews reveal very different plans for the Star Wars prequels

Major casting updates for the Star Trek sequel and Ender’s Game!

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

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ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

‘Supergirl’ Will Feature David Corenswet’s Superman in a Sort of Big Brother Role

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

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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