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Die Halloween TiVo! Die!

The 10th installment of arieScope’s annual Halloween short film just might be its best. TiVo is the star of the show this year, and the video does a good job of exposing its dark side. At first TiVo just wants to get to know you—learn your preferences to create a customized TV-watching experience. Careful though—TiVo…

Television Sean Fallon

Christina Aguilera Rides Pop’s Science Fiction Bandwagon

Christina Aguilera rides her space rocket, joining the new crop of pop princesses who are both futuristic and optimistic. Janet Jackson, Mel B, Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie – all the ladies are slapping on the happy, kitschy science fiction imagery.If the scifi TV line up, future blockbuster themes and fantastic turn out for the Scream…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Nanofarm Your Body for Fun and Profit

If you’ve ever thought that selling your kidney, ova, or sperm sounded like a handy way to make some cash, it’s time to consider body farming. Michael Burton’s photographs show how advances in biotech will change the way humans treat and relate to their bodies. After all, if we can sell our organs, gametes, and…

io9 Lauren Davis

Check Out the World’s Most High-Tech Planetarium

San Francisco has just opened the city’s shiny new Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences, and it’s the world’s most high-tech spot for learning about the universe. The completely-computerized theater can feed real-time climate data from satellites into the show, as well as allow audiences to reprogram the show while it’s in progress.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Who’s Cooler? Batman or Superman?

It’s the question that fandom has been debating since 1939 – even though we all secretly know the answer. Is the Man of Steel cooler than the Dark Knight? For all the similarities they share, whether it be their orphan status, their crush on Wonder Woman or their fashion sense, the struggle over which of…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Giz Explains: How to Choose an HDTV Like a Pro

The economy sucks. But like Warren Buffett, you should be greedy when everyone else is skurred. If you’ve got the extra scratch, this is probably the best holiday season ever to buy an HDTV, since retailers don’t want a pile of them going obsolete in their warehouse. But what should you look for in an…

Television Matt Buchanan

The Most Awesome Duos (So Far) in the io9 Halloween Costume Show

Halloween falls on a Friday party night this year, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be dressing up and trick-or-treating every night for the next week and a half. That’s exactly what everybody’s doing in io9’s Halloween costume show Flickr pool, and we’ve picked out some of the coolest and cutest of the costume duos…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Domain Yankers Of Dune!

Can someone out there not take a joke? After BoingBoing and most of the rest of the Internet linked to MightyGodKing’s hilariously snarky photoshopped covers of classic science fiction books, the page was yanked. The page now just says: “This Account Has Been Suspended. Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.” Did one…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

A Pill to Selectively Erase Your Traumatic Memories

In a few years you might have a pill to help you forget your bad breakup just the way Jim Carey did in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. With a high dose of just one enzyme, scientists can now erase very specific memories while you’re in the act of recalling them. The enzyme known…

io9 Annalee Newitz

New Watchmen Trailer Offers Up New Footage, Same Blurry Blue Genitals

Hoo boy, it’s a new Watchmen trailer! The most anticipated-by-nerds movie of 2009 is looking pretty damned good, and this trailer, shown at the 2008 Scream Awards on Spike TV, offers up some nice new footage of Dr. Manhattan blowing all sorts of stuff up. There’s also fire and darkness and lots of upset looking…

Movies Adam Frucci

The World of CthulhuTech Gets Weirder and Creepier

What happens when ancient evils awaken in the year 2085? One seriously f-ed up RPG campaign setting. The world of CthulhuTech revolves around the Aeon War, an ongoing struggle between hideous aliens, otherdimensional horrors, freaky cultists and vast conspiracies. And they all have battle tanks and giant mechs. But the core rulebook wasn’t enough to…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Back to the Future II Jacket on eBay

We’ve already gotten the 2015 Nikes, and now Marty McFly’s Back to the Future II jacket is for sale on eBay. It’s not the actual film prop and it sadly lacks Auto Dry, but this leather recreation will have to be close enough until the world’s inventors get their act together and make us the…

Movies Mark Wilson

Mass Extinctions Rise Among Plant Species

Entire species of plants are dying off in droves, just like mammals. And there’s no way to save them all, say scientists. How do you decide which plant species to preserve at all costs, and which ones to consign to oblivion forever? Answering that question may mean the difference between selective extinction for some —…

io9 Lauren Davis

Neil Gaiman Walks Out On David Fincher’s Black Hole

Bad news for all you mutated kids infected with “teen plague” from Charles Burns’ Black Hole comic: the Beowulf team of Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary won’t be penning the story for your big screen adaption. Unfortunately there appeared to be a conflict of work styles between the writers and the infamous director David Fincher.…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The Real Stars Of Our Favorite Movies: Gadgets and Cheeseburgers

We love high budget sci fi and action as much as anyone, but who really starred in Iron Man? Robert Downey Jr? Sure, he made an appearance. But so did his co-stars Apple, Dell and Burger King. The Dark Knight? Christian Bale peeked his head in, but so did Canon, Nokia and Bang & Olufsen.…

Movies Mark Wilson

The Real Mad Scientist Is Always Better Than The Movie

Last night, New York’s Imagine Science Film Festival featured four short films about mad scientists — but they left out the maddest parts. Even though the films brought some unjustly overlooked geniuses to light — and shed some new light on familiar ones — they were missing some of the most important, and wildest, historical…

io9 Alex Carnevale

Mutant Children Harvest Your Eyes For Accessories, In Plague Town

Super creepy horror film Plague Town has released its trailer online. This “when mutant children attack” flick follows an American family on a holiday excursion through the back roads of Ireland. When they get ditched by their posse, a group of deformed, infected and mutated children descend upon their ranks and pick them off one…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Study Finds the Color of Dreams Dependent On the Color of Your Childhood TV

Further evidence that media’s placating massage fingers mine even the deepest jelly regions of our brains, a new study has claimed to prove the long-thought notion that the type of TV and film exposure during youth drastically affects the color of dreams, even much later into life. In the study, only 4.4 percent of those…

Television John Mahoney

Naked Martian Robot

It’s the Phoenix Lander the way you’ve never seen it before, with all its private parts showing. This image by a NASA artist shows what Phoenix looked like before it opened up and unfurled all its lab equipment and other tools. Every single piece of equipment that Phoenix brought had to be packed into a…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Star Wars Goes Online With Their New Old Republic

The rumors are true; Lucasfilm and BioWare announced yesterday that the two companies are working on an MMORPG called Star Wars: The Old Republic that will not only offer players a chance to step into the Star Wars universe, but will also change the way that MMOs are made forever. But that’s about all that…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Die Halloween TiVo! Die!

Christina Aguilera Rides Pop’s Science Fiction Bandwagon

Nanofarm Your Body for Fun and Profit

Check Out the World’s Most High-Tech Planetarium

Who’s Cooler? Batman or Superman?

Giz Explains: How to Choose an HDTV Like a Pro

The Most Awesome Duos (So Far) in the io9 Halloween Costume Show

Domain Yankers Of Dune!

A Pill to Selectively Erase Your Traumatic Memories

New Watchmen Trailer Offers Up New Footage, Same Blurry Blue Genitals

The World of CthulhuTech Gets Weirder and Creepier

Back to the Future II Jacket on eBay

Mass Extinctions Rise Among Plant Species

Neil Gaiman Walks Out On David Fincher’s Black Hole

The Real Stars Of Our Favorite Movies: Gadgets and Cheeseburgers

The Real Mad Scientist Is Always Better Than The Movie

Mutant Children Harvest Your Eyes For Accessories, In Plague Town

Study Finds the Color of Dreams Dependent On the Color of Your Childhood TV

Naked Martian Robot

Star Wars Goes Online With Their New Old Republic

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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