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Internal Organs that Allow Giant Monsters to Breathe Fire

If you’ve ever wondered why Mothra is able to shoot vast amounts of webbing out of his beaky mouth, the mystery is now solved. Pink Tentacle points out a series of images from Modern_fred that explain it all to you. He’s scanned and Flickr’d some vintage kaiju images that show us the internal organs of…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Scott Peters Explains Why 4400 People Should Be Abducted

Miss your 4,400 buddies who disappeared, then reappeared with strange powers? Well, never fret — because the entire box set of the The 4400 TV series is out today, and we’ve got an exclusive clip from the special features, featuring creator Scott Peters explaining how he came to the conclusion that 4400 people needed to…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Bayhem Denied: Director Disses Transformers Ride

We’ve already made your year by letting you know about the planned Transformers theme park ride, but there’s one person who isn’t as excited about the whole idea as we are… which, considering he’s been named as one of the people behind it, may be a problem. His name? Transformers director Michael Bay.The Baymeister updated…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Kevin Smith Uses The Dreaded “R” Word To Describe Star Trek

If you saw last Thursday’s Life On Mars, then you witnessed the greatest use for time travel: spoiling the end of a movie that had just come out, in this case Soylent Green. Detective Sam Tyler would approve of us poring over the clues to the storyline of the Star Trek movie in a couple…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Love For My Robot Shorties And All That Nazi Zombie Talk Translated

This week in Cult Scifi, I’m bringing you a few shorts, including some from the lovely Imagine Science Film Festival. Plus a translated trailer of Dod Sno (Dead Snow) so we’ll finally figure out what’s going on with the crazy Nazi undead.The first clip is Automated Assets written by James Dastoli and Robert Datoli. That’s…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Texting Thumb Sore? Adapt Your Body to Fit Your Technology

Technology and design don’t always mesh well with the human body. You get earbuds that fall out of your ears, glasses that slip down the bridge of your nose, and keypads that leave our thumbs worn ragged. While designers try to create designs that better fit our bodies, photographer Marcia Nolte imagines a world where…

io9 Lauren Davis

Making Star Wars Look Like Star Wars Is More Difficult Than It Looks

What makes Star Wars look like Star Wars? That’s one of the questions that The Old Republic’s lead designer, Jeff Dobson has to face repeatedly in the course of working on the upcoming MMO set in George Lucas’ playground and, as he told us, he still can’t really come up with a comprehensive answer. He…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Cosplay Abounds at Zombie Fest in Pittsburgh

We’ve already shown you zombie Simpsons today, but where were Zombie Bride, Zombie Jesus, and Zombie Sarah Palin this weekend? They were chilling with over a thousand of their undead cohorts at the Monroeville Mall in Pittsburgh, where the horrific and the consumer-driven collided for a gory two days. There to celebrate World Zombie Day…

io9 Nivair H. Gabriel

Olmos Human, Olmos Not the Man: Why I Quit BSG

I’m not that smart of a guy. I can’t tell you what a categorical imperative is, or how to hot-wire a motorcycle, or what the Singularity is going to look like. But I can guarantee you one thing: If we ever face a real Robot Threat and I have anything to say about it, I…

io9 Moff

Hulk’s Greatest Hits. The Ones That Don’t Involve Fists

It may already qualify as an internet meme by this point, but the Hulk At The Tropicana, 1965 video on YouTube really may be the funniest thing that I’ve seen in a long time. The best part is when Hulk starts making conversation with the audience: “Yuma? You have good soldiers there, Hulk fight them…

io9 Graeme McMillan

The Hidden Horrors Of Bootleg Videos, And ET: The Extra Terrestrial

With Hallowe’en coming up this Friday, I thought it was time to finally tell you all about my most terrifying sci-fi movie experience ever – A movie that, as a kid, scared the crap out’ve me in ways that I didn’t expect, and to this day still makes me much more nervous than it has…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Zidane: A 21st-Century Portrait, and What You Want On Your HDTV

On April 23, 2005, some of the best cameramen in all of film converged on a Spanish La Liga match between Real Madrid and Villarreal with 17 high-end cameras-film, and modified HD cameras from Panavision with special zoom capabilities, previously available only to the U.S. military-and trained them all on Zinedine Zidane, the legendary French/Algerian…

Movies John Mahoney

One Good Reason Some Of SF’s Best Books Don’t Become Movies

Dying to see a movie version of Ursula K. LeGuin’s classic novel The Dispossessed? Or Rocannon’s World? Don’t hold your breath. In the wake of the Sci Fi Channel’s horrendous miniseries of her Wizard Of Earthsea, LeGuin tells Locus she’ll never sell one of her books to Hollywood again. Says LeGuin: Bit once, OK; bit…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Build Your Own Treehouse of Horror

Click to viewWhat better way to celebrate the holiday than with your own Zombie Simpsons? These undead versions of the KidRobot Simpsons figures come from the mind (and brush) of etsy’s GammaRayBots, taking a break from his usual life of creating robot sculptures to provide us with the most topical way to spend $20 we…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Pushing Daisies’ Creator Wants To Make New Star Trek Show

While some of the io9 braintrust may have problems with a retro Star Trek, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t fans of the idea of a possibly-cheesy but fun take on the franchise, and Pushing Daisies’ Bryan Fuller is one of them. So much so that he’s willing to take the show back there himself…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Don’t Give Up on a Cure for the Common Cold

Researchers from Procter & Gamble, the University of Calgary, and the University of Virginia have just completed a study on the human genome’s response to the common cold — and the results provide a surprising amount of hope. After scraping the nostrils of 35 college students, seventeen of whom were infected and probably sneezing, scientists…

io9 Nivair H. Gabriel

Phobos Will Be the Next Victim of Moon-Killing Mars

Martian moons Phobos and Deimos may have once had a lunar sibling. The discovery of a pair of elliptical craters on Mars’ surface have led astronomers to speculate that a small moon may have held an unsteady orbit around the planet, only to be dragged down by Mars’ gravity and destroyed. And one thing is…

io9 Lauren Davis

Christmas Starts In November For Doctor Who

Fans waiting for this year’s Christmas episode of Doctor Who will have less of a wait than anticipated – A two-minute teaser for the show will be broadcast more than a month earlier than expected, as part of the BBC’s annual November charity event, Children In Need. And then, undoubtedly, will appear on the internet…

io9 Graeme McMillan

NBC’s Heroes To Go To Guantanamo

Wondering what’s going to happen to NBC’s Heroes once they’ve finished with the Villains of the current storyarc? The show’s Greg Grunberg has been talking about what’s coming up in the second half of the third season of the series, subtitled Fugitives, and the answer may involve some heavy-handed political commentary… and yet another X-Men…

io9 Graeme McMillan

A Web of Footnotes — How We Will Read Books in the Future

The technological development that’s going to change the way we read forever isn’t ebooks — it’s footnotes. For the past few months, if you really wanted to understand DC Comics’ big crossover series Final Crisis, you basically had to read each issue alongside Eisner-winning critic Douglas Wolk’s blog “Final Annotations.” Each time a new issue…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Internal Organs that Allow Giant Monsters to Breathe Fire

Scott Peters Explains Why 4400 People Should Be Abducted

Bayhem Denied: Director Disses Transformers Ride

Kevin Smith Uses The Dreaded “R” Word To Describe Star Trek

Love For My Robot Shorties And All That Nazi Zombie Talk Translated

Texting Thumb Sore? Adapt Your Body to Fit Your Technology

Making Star Wars Look Like Star Wars Is More Difficult Than It Looks

Cosplay Abounds at Zombie Fest in Pittsburgh

Olmos Human, Olmos Not the Man: Why I Quit BSG

Hulk’s Greatest Hits. The Ones That Don’t Involve Fists

The Hidden Horrors Of Bootleg Videos, And ET: The Extra Terrestrial

Zidane: A 21st-Century Portrait, and What You Want On Your HDTV

One Good Reason Some Of SF’s Best Books Don’t Become Movies

Build Your Own Treehouse of Horror

Pushing Daisies’ Creator Wants To Make New Star Trek Show

Don’t Give Up on a Cure for the Common Cold

Phobos Will Be the Next Victim of Moon-Killing Mars

Christmas Starts In November For Doctor Who

NBC’s Heroes To Go To Guantanamo

A Web of Footnotes — How We Will Read Books in the Future

Roku’s 2025 Streaming Stick HD Is 40% Off to Compete With Amazon Fire TV Stick During Spring Sale

Epstein Victims Sue Google, Claim AI Mode Exposed Personal Information

‘Wicked Spot’ Is a Fun, Sapphic Rom-Com That Yeets a Witch Into the Magical World of Influencer Culture

Anthropic and OpenAI Just Gave Us a Glimpse Into the Future of Model Pricing

Amazon Slashes 63% Off Acer Aspire Desktop for a Limited-Time Spring Sale, With Keyboard and Mouse Included

Smart Glasses Now Have One of the Vision Pro’s Best Features

Marvel Just Put ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 in a Very Weird Place in the MCU Timeline

Trump Drops $1B to Kill 2 Wind Farms, Then Watches a Bigger One Go Online

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

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

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