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The Future Of Star Wars Is Coming To An End

Dark Horse’s Star Wars: Legacy comic has been surprisingly great, telling the story of a distant descendant of Luke Skywalker who’s neither Jedi nor Sith. And now Dark Horse is pulling the plug. To quote Luke’s daddy, “Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!” We’ve been enjoying the hell out of Star Wars: Legacy since it launched, despite some confusing soap-opera…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

A Litl Box Wants to Turn Your TV Into an Actually Good Web Browser

This is the touchscreen remote for the Litl TV box, which aims to go where no man has gone before (since 1998): To turn your TV into a legit web browser with a new generation of web apps. Anybody who remembers WebTV is probably immediately skeptical of an attempt to use TV as a medium…

Television Matt Buchanan

Jamie Bamber Straps on his Guns for More Scifi

The once and future Apollo is joining the cast of the BBC’s Outcasts — about a group of pilgrims who try to build a new home on a distant, mysterious world. Created by Ben Richards, this eight-part series, currently shooting in South Africa, follows a band of explorers who leave Earth for the planet Carpathia…

io9 Marc Bernardin

Genetic Evidence Shows Why Tibetans Kick Ass At High Altitudes

Tibetans handle high altitudes much better than most people. New research pinpoints the genes that allow them to breathe easily on mountain peaks, and avoid deadly side-effects. The people of Tibet are essentially Fremen of the heights. Evolutionary pressure has created a population of people that have a distinct set of physiological traits that help…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Behold The First Nanobot Assembly Line In Action

It may look like some diagrams and a few blobs, but what you’re seeing here is nothing short of a nanotech revolution. Four nanorobots made of DNA are interacting on an “assembly line” in order to build a tiny device. Today in Nature, a group of researchers announced they’d successfully operated the first assembly line…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Kurt Russell Is The Private Eye For The Underworld

Kurt Russell will always be a bad-ass in our eyes, so we’re happy that he’s continuing his “take no shit” legacy in the movie Undying, where he plays a private dick who’s forced into a strange dimension. Previously titled Reaper, Undying was penned by the Book of Eli writer — make of that what you…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Monsters, Mutants, and Mashups by Dan Hipp

The artist behind comics awesomeness like The Amazing Joy Buzzards and Gyakushu is dropping all sorts of technicolor science on his blog — including Frankenstein’s Monster, a shredded Wolverine, and Batman-James Bond amalgams.

io9 Marc Bernardin

We are scientists!

According to The Korea Times, io9 is a blog operated by scientists. Take that, doubters!

io9 Annalee Newitz

Is Israel One Of The World’s Most Science Fictional Nations?

In H+ Magazine, author Hank Hyena has a fascinating essay about Israel’s contributions to futurism. He calls the nation “transhumanist,” and makes a pretty good case for its status as a region that’s turning scifi into real science. Hyena writes: Israel has been described as “the birthplace of science fiction.” For chariots in the sky,…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Art That Shows The Mind-Blowing Vastness Of Space

This digital science fiction art by German creator Tobias Roetsch, aka Taenaron, is so mind-blowingly vivid, it feels like a matte painting from the space opera movie of your dreams. In a new interview, Roetsch explains his visions of space. Talking to Richworks, Roesch explains: All those elements are basically done in photoshop. For planets…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Is it Worth Spending an Ungodly Fortune to Prove Einstein Right?

NASA and the European Space Agency are planning to launch three spacecraft into orbit around the sun, three million miles apart, and have them fire lasers at each other to prove the theory of general relativity. The lasers will be used to measure tiny changes in distance between the spacecraft — actually, between floating cubes…

io9 Marc Bernardin

Sharlto Copley Has High Standards For What An Alien Should Look Like

New alien film I Am Number Four ditched District 9’s star Sharlto Copley in favor of Timothy Olyphant, due to scheduling conflicts. But was the real reason Copley left a Spielberg/Bay-produced film a fight over fake alien ears? I Am Number Four, which is D.J. Caruso’s next film adaption of James Frey and Jobie Hughes’s…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Sleeping in the Belly of the Beast

In the single greatest sleeping-bag achievement since the Tauntaun Initiative, Patch Together has unleashed the ChumBuddy — a nighttime rig fit to give would-be Quints a pain in the wallet. The ChumBuddy will cost the Jaws fan in your life a cool $200. Is it worth it? That’s a question only you and the unsuspecting…

io9 Marc Bernardin

Will One Of The Autobots Be Transforming Into A Boat In Transformers 3?

While Michael Bay is location-scouting on the Space Coast of Florida, home of the Kennedy center, details are spilling out about the next Transformers film. Which sounds like it has even more aliens in it this time around. While perusing through the local press announcements of the Transformers 3 location scouting in Central Florida, we…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Infrasound: The Sound Too Awesome for Us to Hear

Infrasound is too low-frequency for humans to hear. It has been mistaken for ghosts, has been known to cause nausea and headaches in humans, and is used to monitor the testing of nuclear weapons. It’s difficult to write about infrasound, because while some people consider it just an ordinary wavelength of sound, others have considered…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Evangeline Lilly’s Robot Friend, A New Futurama Picture, And A Batman Casting Rumor

Lost’s Evangeline Lilly isn’t wasting time: she’s already joined robot-boxing movie Real Steel. There’s a spoilery new Futurama pic. Sawyer looks like he’s losing his mojo, in a new Lost clip. Plus Smallville, Chuck, Doctor Who and True Blood! Batman 3: Rumor has it Billy Zane is talking to Chris Nolan about a part in…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Most Ridiculously Inappropriate Scenes From The Original “V”

Sure, the new V has plenty of nekkid alien hijinks – but it’s nothing compared to the original series. Check out this scene where a human/alien hybrid woman connects to a spaceship’s computer and has a… umm… computergasm. More below. It’s hard to pick our favorite inappropriate scenes from V, so we’re just throwing together…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Could It Be? Will We Be Free Of “Heroes” At Last?

Rumors have been flying for weeks now that execrable superhero series Heroes was going to get renewed for a half season, despite abysmal ratings. But now it’s looking like NBC has come to its senses. According to Vulture: When NBC executives got a look at the new pilots they had ordered (five have already been…

Television Annalee Newitz

“F” Is For “Fastball Special” – The ABCs Of Wolverine

Joe The Barbarian illustrator Sean Gordon Murphy has constructed an alphabet chart perfect for teaching the lil’ amnesiac antiheroes in your brood their ABCs. Remember: without reading, you can’t be the best at what you do! [Sean Gordon Murphy’s Deviantart via Metafilter]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

First Look At Jack Black In Gulliver’s Travels

Images are starting to come in from Cannes film festival — including the first ever poster from the modern day Gulliver’s Travels. Starring Jack Black. We’re still not so sure how we feel about this one, plus Giant 3-D Spiders! Empire Magazine posted images of the new Gulliver’s Travels, which also stars Jason Segel, Emily…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The Future Of Star Wars Is Coming To An End

A Litl Box Wants to Turn Your TV Into an Actually Good Web Browser

Jamie Bamber Straps on his Guns for More Scifi

Genetic Evidence Shows Why Tibetans Kick Ass At High Altitudes

Behold The First Nanobot Assembly Line In Action

Kurt Russell Is The Private Eye For The Underworld

Monsters, Mutants, and Mashups by Dan Hipp

We are scientists!

Is Israel One Of The World’s Most Science Fictional Nations?

Art That Shows The Mind-Blowing Vastness Of Space

Is it Worth Spending an Ungodly Fortune to Prove Einstein Right?

Sharlto Copley Has High Standards For What An Alien Should Look Like

Sleeping in the Belly of the Beast

Will One Of The Autobots Be Transforming Into A Boat In Transformers 3?

Infrasound: The Sound Too Awesome for Us to Hear

Evangeline Lilly’s Robot Friend, A New Futurama Picture, And A Batman Casting Rumor

Most Ridiculously Inappropriate Scenes From The Original “V”

Could It Be? Will We Be Free Of “Heroes” At Last?

“F” Is For “Fastball Special” – The ABCs Of Wolverine

First Look At Jack Black In Gulliver’s Travels

‘Scream 4’ Is Back, and on Tape

Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1

Amazon Clears Out Netflix-Licensed Nebula Capsule 3 Mini Projector at 32% Off, Dolby Audio Home Theater for Less

Anker 160W Laptop Charger Briefly Returns to Black Friday Pricing in a Last-Minute Amazon Spring Sale Deal

The New ‘Backrooms’ Trailer Is Packed Full of Endless Dread

Logitech Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Combo Falls Under $25, a Budget Bundle Deal in the Final Hours of Spring Sale

Liquids Crack With an Audible Snap, Study Finds

Dyson V15 Detect Plus Cordless Vacuum Is a Late Spring Sale Deal at a Record Low on Amazon

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

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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