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Darth Vader TV/DVD Has Lightsaber Remote

I like Star Wars. I even like some Star Wars merchandising, like the awesome R2-D2 projector or all the Lego Star Wars. But Lucas has to stop market-raping his franchises at once, for the love of all that is good, small, green, and lives in swamps. Example: this horrific 14-inch Darth Vader TV/DVD combo. Seriously,…

Television Jesus Diaz

Radio Girls on the Old-School, High-Tech Assembly Line

In the mid-1920s, these women were the equivalent of today’s circuit board builders. Called “coil winders,” they worked winding transformer coils for radios in a Philadelphia factory. Featured on the Shorpy blog, this image gives us a glimpse of old-school tech at the moment when it was most cutting edge. Says one of the commenters…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Forget The Angst – Runaways Will Be 21st Century Superpowered Goonies

Get ready for the best news any fan of Marvel Comics’ teen hero angst series Runaways could hear about the potential movie adaptation: original author Brian K. Vaughan is going to be writing it. And the second best news? A finished script is expected next year with an eye toward the movie being Marvel’s first…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Tons Of Clips From Next Monday’s Heroes

Today’s spoilers include a crucial setting for Transformers 2, and Seth Rogen’s explanation of Green Hornet’s storyline. There’s also a cryptic statement from Lost star Terry O’Quinn, and a ton of videos of next Monday’s Heroes. And there are some big spoilers for Sarah Connor Chronicles, Clone Wars, Chuck, Torchwood and Knight Rider. Don’t fight…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Gina Torres Versus The Joker, In The 26th Century

Before she was Captain Mal Reynolds’ right-hand woman in Joss Whedon’s Firefly, the amazing Gina Torres led a scrappy group of women freedom fighters in a world dominated by evil machines. She co-starred in the awesome Cleopatra 2525, a short-lived show from the Xena/Hercules production team of Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert. Here she is…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Fringe Gives Us a Bloody Birthday Present This Week

If I’d had any doubts about Fringe becoming my new guilty pleasure, this week erased them. I am now officially a watcher of Fringe, rather than a sampler of it. Last night’s episode “The Cure” gave us a healthy dose of WTF back story on several of our main characters — Agent Olivia and Mad…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Post-Apocalyptic Housing that Doesn’t Look Like Bunkers

After a massive earthquake hit central China in May, the government pledged to create 1.5 million temporary homes for people whose houses had been destroyed. Designer Ming Tang came up with the idea to create some of these shelters out of bamboo crafted in collapsible, geometric shapes. Each home can be reconfigured quickly and moved…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Is Algis Budrys What SF Should Have Been?

Algis Budrys is a writer’s writer, admired more for his style in the genre than his visionary ideas. The Lithuanian-American novelist and critic is the subject of a glowing profile by Technology Review’s Mark Williams in which he offers up Budrys’ literary style as an exemplar of what the rest of the genre should have…

io9 Alex Carnevale

Boldly Going Gets Captain, Snotty Robot

It took just one sentence from the Hollywood Reporter for me to check out of being interested in Boldly Going Nowhere, the new sci-fi comedy from the makers of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia: “[Tony] Hale… will play the ship’s robot, who thinks he’s superior to the human race.” For those of you less judgmental…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Toxic Avenger: The Musical Is A Spine-Ripping Good Time

Click to viewToxic Avenger: The Musical is all sorts of spinal cord ripping, potty-mouthed, toe tapping fun. Based loosely on the classic Troma gross-out film The Toxic Avenger, the musical still has Melvin Ferd and his gooey toxic waste transformation into New Jersey’s own superhero, who saves the land from pollution so we all “won’t…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The Comedian’s Fall From Disgrace, Suspended In Time

Do you wish you could freeze-frame that iconic moment of the Comedian falling out the window, with the blood-spattered smiley button, from last night’s new Watchmen footage? And just stare at Zack Snyder’s fetishistic attention to detail. Now you can, sort of, thanks to this newly released teaser poster. Click through to see the whole…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

7 Costumes You Should NOT Wear for Halloween

Click to viewThe coolest holiday of them all is almost upon us, and we’ve done our best to prepare you. We’ve made a handful of costume suggestions. We asked your fellow readers to share their get-ups with you. And today, we offer you one of our most valuable services: what not to wear on the…

io9 Nisha Gopalan

The Man Who Lifted Schlock Cinema To An Art Form

A new documentary will look at Roger Corman’s amazing career as a movie producer, spanning from the 1950s to the present, including classics like Death Race 2000 and Attack Of The Crab Monsters. The documentary King Of The Bs: The Independent Life Of Roger Corman looks especially at his contributions to genre cinema, including horror/comedy…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Spectators at a Show for the Dying World

This image of a whale’s bleached bones in Antarctica documents the disturbingly beautiful effect of climate change on the planet. It’s an image by Sebastian Copeland, one of 18 photographers who entered their work in a competition funded by a Swiss bank that will give $85,780 to the winner. While photography about climate change may…

io9 Alex Carnevale

Marty McFly’s Sneakers Take You Back to the Future

If Robert Zemeckis has anything to say about it, by 2015, we should all be riding around on hoverboards in our self-lacing Nikes. But just in case industry lags behind science fiction, The Movie Shop is offering replicas of Marty’s famous shoes, as well as other products from 2015. The may not be the most…

io9 Lauren Davis

Discover The Secret Romance Between Han And His Ship

There’s an excerpt from James Luceno’s new novel Millennium Falcon up for your reading pleasure. Strange enough it reads like fanfic about Han making sweet, sweet love to his ship — or at least being in love with said ship. Hey, I’ve read stranger ideas. But all kidding aside, it’s actually pretty interesting to see…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Alien Shapeshifters Are For Lovers, In New Book Series

Romance/SF author C.J. Barry just signed a big book deal with Penguin imprint Berkley Books for a new series of romance novels about an invasion by alien shapeshifters. It’s just the latest proof of what we’ve been saying for ages — some of the biggest growth in science fiction publishing will come from genre hybrids.…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

New Terminator Aims To Outdo Sarah Connor With Time Travel Insanity

By the end of this year, it’s not just Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles that’ll be giving you a regular dose of time-traveling killer robot versus determined mom carnage – Dynamite Entertainment are bringing their version of the Terminator franchise back, written by Transformers writer Simon Furman and with enough cross-time antics that your head…

io9 Graeme McMillan

20% of Analog TV Viewers to Let Their TVs Go Dark After the Digital Switch

Next February, when analog TV signals go dark, according to a survey by ABI Research, a whopping 20% of the people who rely on them to get their TV signals won’t bother to get a digital converter, instead letting their TVs go dark. They’ll move on to watching DVDs and broadband-based entertainment instead. Could the…

Television Adam Frucci

James Cameron Returns To Killer Cyborgs From The Future

James Cameron is still neck-deep in perfecting his 3-D space masterpiece, Avatar. But work on his next project, a 3-D animated version of the classic manga Battle Angel, is already well underway as well. Concept artist Mark Goener gave an interview to 3-D movie blog MarketSaw, and talked about developing a unique look for this…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Darth Vader TV/DVD Has Lightsaber Remote

Radio Girls on the Old-School, High-Tech Assembly Line

Forget The Angst – Runaways Will Be 21st Century Superpowered Goonies

Tons Of Clips From Next Monday’s Heroes

Gina Torres Versus The Joker, In The 26th Century

Fringe Gives Us a Bloody Birthday Present This Week

Post-Apocalyptic Housing that Doesn’t Look Like Bunkers

Is Algis Budrys What SF Should Have Been?

Boldly Going Gets Captain, Snotty Robot

Toxic Avenger: The Musical Is A Spine-Ripping Good Time

The Comedian’s Fall From Disgrace, Suspended In Time

7 Costumes You Should NOT Wear for Halloween

The Man Who Lifted Schlock Cinema To An Art Form

Spectators at a Show for the Dying World

Marty McFly’s Sneakers Take You Back to the Future

Discover The Secret Romance Between Han And His Ship

Alien Shapeshifters Are For Lovers, In New Book Series

New Terminator Aims To Outdo Sarah Connor With Time Travel Insanity

20% of Analog TV Viewers to Let Their TVs Go Dark After the Digital Switch

James Cameron Returns To Killer Cyborgs From The Future

Should We Be Hyped—or Freaked Out—About Nuclear Microreactors?

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

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

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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