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Love Keeps Her In The Air, But You Can Keep Serenity On Your Shelf

Serenity is a damn fine boat, in this 19-inch replica from Quantum Mechanix. On sale today for Comic Con, the Firefly model includes 30 lighting effects, hand-painted insignia, Inara’s shuttle, and our Big Damn Heroes on the bridge. Gallery below. The model will be here at Comic Con all weekend, but you can sign up…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Iron Man Videogame Takes Synergy To New Level

For fans of Marvel’s tin-plated superhero Iron Man, Sega’s tie-in to next year’s Iron Man 2 movie may be the best videogame tie-in ever. The reason? It’s being written by comic writer Matt Fraction… who also worked on the movie. Although the screenplay for Jon Favreau’s much-anticipated sequel was written by Justin Theroux, Fraction –…

io9 Graeme McMillan

ScarJo Is Smoking In New Iron Man 2 Stills, While Doctor Who’s Fires Rage On

ScarJo brings the full-on bombshell as the Black Widow, in a new Iron Man still. A G.I. Joe poster features Storm Shadow unmasked. Doctor Who set pics include an emotional moment. Plus Gamer, Book Of Eli, Kick-Ass and Fringe spoilers. Iron Man 2: Yahoo! Movies posted a new still featuring ScarJo as Natasha Romanoff, plus…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The Real Reason Why Bottled Water Is Evil

A 2,000-year-old renanimated bog-man invades a convenience store, and nearly dies of dehydration, except he’s able to bite chunks out of plastic water bottles, giving him the strength to do a hockey-stick tracheotomy on the clerk. Legend Of The Bog, newly out on DVD, has to be one of the dullest deserted-area monster films ever…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

How to Build a Snorricam, So You Can Film Your Face

Hey, narcissists and/or filmmakers! Instructables has a guide to making your own Snorricam, that chest-mounted camera holder that points the lens directly at your own face. The final product looks like a term project for wood shop class, requiring mostly traditional materials as the Snorricam mount is primarily made of plywood. Not an incredibly difficult…

Movies Dan Nosowitz

The Future Of Doctor Who And Torchwood: Revealed!

We’ve already wondered whether Torchwood could possibly top its world-crashing “Children Of Earth” miniseries in 2010, and we’re also dead curious about the rumored Doctor Who movie. So we asked the BBC’s Julie Gardner what’s in store for both institutions. https://gizmodo.com/torchwood-was-amazing-but-what-happens-next-5312391 We were lucky enough to have a one-on-one interview with Gardner, who’s supervised both…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

How Many Times Does Batman Have To Die?

And not just Batman this time, either; the cover of DC Comics‘ Superman/Batman #65 hints at a double funeral that includes the Man of Steel as well. The special Hallowe’en-themed issue, co-written by Supernatural’s Peter Johnston, is released in October.

io9 Graeme McMillan

The Unholy Love Child of Bicycle and Monorail Could Revolutionize Your Commute

I’m still waiting for the day when humans navigate cities by being sucked through pneumatic tubes. But in the meantime, New Zealand’s bicycle-monorail mash-up, known as the Shweeb, might be the next best thing. The Shweeb is a human-powered transit system that employs a recumbent cycle to move a clear passenger tube along a rail.…

io9 Lauren Davis

SDCC: Day Minus One

San Diego Comic-Con starts on Thursday – with a Preview Night tomorrow – which means one thing for the convention center staff: Construction. Courtesy of Comic-Con’s Twitter feed, here’s what the main floor looks like now. Click through for more.

io9 Graeme McMillan

Tired Of Eye Drops? Try These Drug-Dispensing Contact Lenses

Are you one of those people that gets squeamish when you have to put eye-drops in? Good news! A new type of contact lens can deliver eye medication with no fuss all day, every day for 30 days. Researchers at the Laboratory for Biomaterials and Drug Delivery at Children’s Hospital Boston saw the need for…

io9 StephenGoldmeier

Meteors Are Forever

Usually when a large meteor hits the Earth, it’s a cataclysmic event that heralds the extinction of various species. But they also mean lots of diamonds. The latest cache of meteor-made diamonds was just discovered in California. The latest diamond cache was recently discovered in a part of California where scientists say a large meteor…

io9 Megan Carpentier

First Tron 2 Viral: Flynn Lives

It was only a matter of time before Disney started busting out the ARG’s for the super-buzzed-about sequel Tron 2. After scattering the globe with Flynn’s Arcade tokens they’ve now launched a conspiracy theorist site: what really happened to Flynn? First take a look at these incredible-looking tokens to Flynn’s Arcade. But in the sequel,…

io9 Meredith Woerner

It’s Zombies vs. Soldiers in New Romero Stills

George Romero‘s latest zombie flick finally has a title, and a pack of images full of fresh gore and decay. Check out the soldiers and zombies that will hopefully make us forget all about Diary of the Dead. Up until now, the sequel to Diary has been referred to simply as …Of the Dead, but…

io9 Lauren Davis

The Best Alan Moore Impersonation We’ve Ever Seen

The mastermind behind Watchmen’s botched ending was Alan Moore himself, a hilarious new video reveals. Still bitter after The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’s movie mishandling Moore decided to protect his characters once and for all, by destroying them. Nobody Watches the Watchmen – watch more funny videos

io9 Meredith Woerner

Vampire Laser Love On Mars: The Can’t-Fail Ingredients To Create The Best Worst SF Book

This tag cloud, depicting all the words that go into the worst science-fiction book titles, is a thing of absolute beauty. Orbit Books created it out of the 350 submissions for its “worst cover ever” drive. And the finalists are… https://gizmodo.com/can-you-come-up-with-a-science-fiction-book-cover-worse-5308681 According to Orbit, here are the five titles from which the absolute worst will…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

British Schoolchildren Traumatized by Fake Alien Invasion

Hoping to spark their students’ imaginations, a junior school in England staged an alien invasion, complete with a crash landing and the “abduction” of one of their faculty members while the children watched. What could possibly go wrong? Faculty at the Southway Junior School in West Sussex hoped to improve their students’ writing skills by…

io9 Lauren Davis

The Terrible Intoxicating Beauty Of The Ghost Orchid Returns To Florida

The supernatural glow of the mysterious ghost orchid is back in the Everglades for the third year in a row. This flower rarely blooms two years in a row, and was missing for a dozen years until 2007. The ghost orchid, of course, is the haunting beauty featured in the book The Orchid Thief and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Google Earth Flies You to the Moon

To celebrate the anniversary of the moon landing, Google has added the moon to the list of celestial bodies you can visit on Google Earth. The latest version features both Martian and lunar geography, including mission sites. [Google Earth]

io9 Lauren Davis

Stargate Atlantis Comic Promises Hot McKay 2D Action

Picking up where the series left off, Dynamite Entertainment is publishing three Stagate series comics (one for each TV series). But we’re all extra excited for the Rodney McKay art. According to Dynamite, the SG-1 comic will be called Season Eleven and Stargate Atlantis will be titled Season Six. You see what they are doing…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Teens Get Their Own Space To Dream About Strange Adventures

In case there was any doubt that the young readership is where the growth is these days, the struggling Borders announced it’ll capitalize on its burgeoning teen audience, with a special department featuring young-adult novels and graphic novels. The Borders Ink section will replace the music/DVD sections in hundreds of stores, as music and video…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Love Keeps Her In The Air, But You Can Keep Serenity On Your Shelf

Iron Man Videogame Takes Synergy To New Level

ScarJo Is Smoking In New Iron Man 2 Stills, While Doctor Who’s Fires Rage On

The Real Reason Why Bottled Water Is Evil

How to Build a Snorricam, So You Can Film Your Face

The Future Of Doctor Who And Torchwood: Revealed!

How Many Times Does Batman Have To Die?

The Unholy Love Child of Bicycle and Monorail Could Revolutionize Your Commute

SDCC: Day Minus One

Tired Of Eye Drops? Try These Drug-Dispensing Contact Lenses

Meteors Are Forever

First Tron 2 Viral: Flynn Lives

It’s Zombies vs. Soldiers in New Romero Stills

The Best Alan Moore Impersonation We’ve Ever Seen

Vampire Laser Love On Mars: The Can’t-Fail Ingredients To Create The Best Worst SF Book

British Schoolchildren Traumatized by Fake Alien Invasion

The Terrible Intoxicating Beauty Of The Ghost Orchid Returns To Florida

Google Earth Flies You to the Moon

Stargate Atlantis Comic Promises Hot McKay 2D Action

Teens Get Their Own Space To Dream About Strange Adventures

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

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