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Tis The Season For Tesla, Frankenstein And This Week’s Comics

You can tell that we’re getting closer to Hallowe’en, just by looking at this week’s new comic releases: Vampires! Zombie plagues! Frankenstein’s Monster! Nikolai Tesla! Okay, maybe not that last one. But these are still Comics We Crave. Let’s quickly get the superhero stuff out of the way, shall we? DC is launching a new…

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R2-D2 Hoodie: Look Like a Short, Stout Droid

Pro tip: there’s nothing that gets ladies worked up like seeing a man in an outfit that combines sci-fi references with the laziest article of clothing possible. For only $92, how can you say no? [Etsy via Technabob]

Movies Adam Frucci

The Inventor Of The Light-Space Modulator Couldn’t Let The Nazis Get Their Hands On It

When Laszlo Moholy-Nagy fled the Nazis in the 1930s, he lugged this bizarre contraption through customs in country after country. The Light-Space Modulator looks like a mad-science experiment and sounds like a time machine, but it helped pioneer digital design. According to an article in the New York Times, Moholy-Nagy was one of the least…

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America’s Next Top Model Will Be Shorter, Rounder

Sorry, fashion industry: The shape of things to come for women will be shorter and plumper, and it’s all thanks to natural selection. Or, at least, that’s what some scientists are claiming. A team of researchers at Yale University, led by evolutionary biologist Stephen Stearns, studied 2238 post-menopausal women chosen from the Framingham Heart Study…

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Vampire’s Assistant Proves Vampires Can Make Anyone Sexy… Except Willem Dafoe

John C. Reilly pulls off the undead sexiness in Vampire’s Assistant, as new clips prove. On the other hand, there’s Willem Dafoe‘s effeminate pencil-thin mustached vamp impersonation. Watch for yourself, below. Vampire’s Assistant, based on the novel series Cirque Du Freak, has an astounding cast of actual actors. Salma Hayek, Ken Watanabe, Ray Stevenson and…

io9 Meredith Woerner

What Huge Role Will Campbell Play In Spider-Man 4?

Bruce Campbell is definitely done making cameos in Sam Raimi‘s Spider-Man movies – but that doesn’t mean he’s done with the webcrawler. Just the opposite, in fact; Raimi is confirming a “meaty role” for the actor in Spider-Man 4. Talking to MTV, Raimi confirmed what Campbell himself had told Access Hollywood last month: I promised…

io9 Graeme McMillan

SGU’s Female Lieutenant Responds To Sexism-Gate

Actress Julia Benson just started blogging and Twittering, and she addresses the uproar surrounding Stargate Universe’s last episode, which many claim went a little nuts with the breast happy camera angles, “for all the talk about my natural (and believe me they are 100%) assets I promise you that there is much more to my…

Television Meredith Woerner

Ecko Star Wars Watches, If You’re Not Fett Up Yet

We can only imagine how much money there is to be made on a $100 geek hoodies, which probably why Marc Ecko, teamed with Timex, is looking to release a line of Star Wars watches next. https://gizmodo.com/admit-it-the-stormtrooper-hoodie-is-a-little-tempting-5056931 From the Eck-man himself: These are some teasers of my new watch collection. The range is inspired by…

Movies Mark Wilson

The Posters Your Robot Companion Wants To Hang On Its Walls

Brian Kappel‘s robot paintings are like artifacts from an alternate world where robots are rockstars, soldiers and burlesque dancers. If robots collected art, these paintings would hang in the fanciest robo-galleries in the world. We became fascinated with Kappel’s robot masterpieces when we saw he was having a gallery show in Phoenix recently, called “Artificial…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

More Asgardian Heroes for Thor? Apocalyptic Images from BSG: The Plan, And More of Summer Glau in Dollhouse!

Casting slides reveal more of Thor’s divine helpers. Witness more Colonial destruction from BSG: The Plan. More pictures show Summer Glau inside the Dollhouse, and Smallville’s Justice Society gets three new members. Plus 2012, Inception, Supernatural, Eclipse, and Doctor Parnassus. Inception Cillian Murphy has apparently read the Inception script. His thoughts? Excited but vague: “It’s…

io9 Lauren Davis

Captain Pike Is A Bad Mutha, But He’s No Cyborg Soldier

When Star Trek‘s Bruce Greenwood said he enjoyed chewing the scenery in last year’s Cyborg Soldier, he wasn’t kidding. Here he is, in all his brain-splatting glory. Plus a cyborg-on-bald-guy smackdown. Can a cyborg prevail against the power of baldness? https://gizmodo.com/cyborg-soldier-star-i-chewed-the-scenery-yum-5068442 In case the above clip isn’t self-explanatory, Greenwood is an evil scientist, who created…

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BSG The Plan Gallery

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Woman in the Attic Gallery

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Summer in the Dollhouse

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Astro Boy Gallery

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2012 Gallery

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Michael Bay Explains Why You Don’t Need A Script To Start Making An Awesome Movie

Watch some great Decepticon-on-military-satellite action from Transformers 2, while director Michael Bay explains why you don’t need to have a script when you start creating cool robot action, in this exclusive commentary clip from the Revenge Of The Fallen DVD. As you might know, the writers’ strike forced Bay to start work on TF2 without…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

We’re Heading For A New Cold War, Argues Futurist

Strap yourself in: We’re in for the return of Cold War politics, the rise of new dominant powers, and a full-blown space war, according to a new book. What are the chances his dire predictions will come true? Written in 20 year increments, The Next 100 Years by George Friedman looks out over our coming…

io9 Andrew Liptak

WSJ Confirms Barnes & Noble “Nook” Reader Price at $259

According to the WSJ, the Barnes & Noble reader will be announced tomorrow at $259. The descriptions match our exclusive photos exactly. They found the device through a premature ad shown on the NYTimes website! Who scooped who here? https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-first-photos-of-barnes-nobles-double-scree-5380942 Features of the Nook include a wireless connection to download books from the retailer’s online…

Books & Comics Rosa Golijan

Avian Flu Is An STD?

Scientists have discovered an unexpected fact about bird flu: It might be a sexually-transmitted disease, at least in ducks. And, just as unexpectedly, the key to transmission may be all about penis size and vagina “complexity.” New Scientist reports on new research carried out by a team at Budapest’s Eötvös Loránd University, which crossreferenced the…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Tis The Season For Tesla, Frankenstein And This Week’s Comics

R2-D2 Hoodie: Look Like a Short, Stout Droid

The Inventor Of The Light-Space Modulator Couldn’t Let The Nazis Get Their Hands On It

America’s Next Top Model Will Be Shorter, Rounder

Vampire’s Assistant Proves Vampires Can Make Anyone Sexy… Except Willem Dafoe

What Huge Role Will Campbell Play In Spider-Man 4?

SGU’s Female Lieutenant Responds To Sexism-Gate

Ecko Star Wars Watches, If You’re Not Fett Up Yet

The Posters Your Robot Companion Wants To Hang On Its Walls

More Asgardian Heroes for Thor? Apocalyptic Images from BSG: The Plan, And More of Summer Glau in Dollhouse!

Captain Pike Is A Bad Mutha, But He’s No Cyborg Soldier

BSG The Plan Gallery

Woman in the Attic Gallery

Summer in the Dollhouse

Astro Boy Gallery

2012 Gallery

Michael Bay Explains Why You Don’t Need A Script To Start Making An Awesome Movie

We’re Heading For A New Cold War, Argues Futurist

WSJ Confirms Barnes & Noble “Nook” Reader Price at $259

Avian Flu Is An STD?

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

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

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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

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