Your Fast Pass Leaves Slow Data Trails, The Ghosts Of City Life

These glowing images look like a kind of luminescent jellyfish at the bottom of the ocean, but they’re actually the trails left by an LED attached to a RFID tag. These tags create invisible patterns as they move through cities. The images above, illustrating the limits of the field where the Radio Frequency ID tag…

Michael Bay To Kill Megan Fox?

There’s been plenty of drama surrounding Bay’s next robot masterpiece, Transformers 3. But the back-and-forth, Megan Fox-versus-the-crew arguments and smack talk seemed to be over. Until rumors broke that Bay was going to kill Fox. https://gizmodo.com/michael-bay-prevents-bayhem-5358335 InTouch Magazine is reporting that after Megan Fox talked smack about the Transformers crew, and vice versa, the director…

Coraline

Coraline

Steampunk Zombies of the Seattle Apocalypse

Confederate airships! Mad scientists! Zombies! Goggles! Cherie Priest‘s Boneshaker is a veritable grab bag of subgenre tropes. But, fortunately, it’s far less about clockwork and brass than it is about human adaptability and the shifting nature of the American Dream. Boneshaker takes place in an alternate Washington territory, where the Klondike gold rush ramped up…

Ghost Vader Emerges From The Grave

You’ve always suspected that the beatifically smiling Anakin at the end of Return Of The Jedi wasn’t the real ghost of Darth Vader — and now here’s the proof, haunting a graveyard with his light saber flashing in the mist. The images are by Stephen Hayford, who has been meticulously creating amazingly sweet Star Wars…

50 Years, 200 Missions, One Enormous Map

Have trouble keeping track of the nearly 200 past and current missions to explore our solar system and beyond? National Geographic’s elegant infographic displays 50 years of space exploration in a colorful map of our planetary neighbors. The “Fifty Years of Exploration” map, created by Sean McNaughton and Samuel Velasco for National Geographic, outlines humanity’s…

Can’t Sleep. Space Clown Will Get Me

Here’s the first clown in space, Cirque Du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte. Can you imagine being stuck in a confined International Space Station with this man? I think I would be sabotaging my own life support after an hour. Laliberte, a billionaire and the 261st richest person alive, just touched down in Kazakhstan aboard a…

Batman And The Venture Bros. Team Up To Rescue TV

Finally, Claire’s lesbian awakening begins on Heroes. Also, Starz gives us a glimpse at the sordid past of Zombies, and their foray onto the big screen. And Batman’s back for more crazy-capes team-up action! Monday: House

Dollhouse: Prepare For The Comic Book Active

Ratings for the television incarnation of Dollhouse saw a 25 percent uptick, but remain perilously close to the danger zone. But news from this weekend’s Baltimore Comic Con suggests the show may have comic-book life after potential death after all. During Dark Horse Comics’ Buffy The Vampire Slayer panel, editor Scott Allie said that Dollhouse…

Alien Windmills and Cyborg Prostitutes Invade Amsterdam

Collage artist Sam Van Olffen takes the Holland’s most iconic features — its windmills, its tulips, its bicycles, and Amsterdam’s Red Light District — and meshes them with dieselpunk elements to create strange, overstuffed scenes of the Netherlands’ unlikely future. Netherlands Outrezone [Sam Van Olffen] Don Quixote of Amsterdam vs. The Alien Windmills Red Light…

Toy Story 3 Trailer: Andy’s Choice

Now that Andy is all grown up and off to college, he’ll have to decide what is to become of his talking toys. Who will live and who will die? Find out in the Toy Story 3 trailer. The official synopsis is this: Woody, Buzz, and the rest of their toy-box friends are dumped in…

Red Dwarf Back Again?

After last year’s Back To Earth mini-series, is Red Dwarf coming back for good? The series’ Robert Llewellyn told fans this weekend that scripts for a tenth season of the SF comedy have already been commissioned. Llewellyn made the announcement at this weekend’s Dimension Jump ’09 Red Dwarf fan convention, twittering it to the internet…

io9 Book Club: Ask Paul McAuley About “The Quiet War”

The first meeting of the io9 Book Club was a blast. We had a great conversation about Paul McAuley‘s The Quiet War. Now, McAuley is going to drop in and answer your questions. So ask! https://gizmodo.com/io9-book-club-meeting-lets-discuss-the-quiet-war-5377485 If you’re wondering what this whole io9 Book Club thing is all about, you can read our inaugural post…

Bryan Singer: I Want To Make More X-Men

After months of rumors, X-Men and Superman Returns director Bryan Singer has publicly stated that not only does he want to return to Fox’s mutant angst franchise, but that he’s spoken to the studio about the possibility. Talking during an appearance with director Kim Ji-woon at the Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea, Singer…

Exploring the Literary Implications of Dr. Manhattan’s Glowing Blue Junk

Do you spend hours analyzing the moral philosophy of Watchmen, the multicultural occultism of Promethea, or what Lost Girls says about storytelling and human sexuality? Consider submitting a paper to an upcoming academic conference on the work of Alan Moore. Nathan Wiseman-Trowse, Senior Lecturer in Popular Culture at the University of Northampton, is currently soliciting…

Set Pics Reveal A Proto-Cylon, A Mysterious Grave On Lost, And A Fringe Struggle

Things get weirder on Lost, and a star of The Wire visits Doctor Who. Romo Lampkin visits Supernatural, and there are bizarre Green Hornet reports. Also: Fringe/Caprica set pics, plus FlashForward, Smallville, Stargate, True Blood, Dollhouse and [Rec] spoilers. [Rec] 2: Javier Botet returns as Medeiros, who’s possessed and the object of a manhunt by…

Stargate Universe Vancouver Panel, Oct. 5

Star Wars Gallery

Star Wars Gallery

The Dance Dance Revolution Future Street Fighting Game of Death!

In the future, your merit as a street thug will be based on the swift moves you bring to the back alley illegal Dance Dance Revolution fighting game. So does it work, or is it still just dance fighting? Turbo Twilight star Justin Chon plays a futuristic burger flipper by day, Dance Dance Revolution fighter…

Whedon’s Cabin Gets Pushed Back A Year And In Your Face

Getting excited to see the Joss Whedon/Drew Goddard horror collaboration The Cabin In The Woods? Here’s the bad news: Its release date has been pushed from February 2010 to January 2011… because so many people want to see it. Whuh? The reason given by studio MGM for the release date shift is because advance tracking…