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Cameron Talks Avatar And Teases The Dark Knight

Our hero James Cameron took time out of creating weird alien planets to describe to CBC the “CG hell” that he is currently living in as he works Avatar, and getting the chance to work with Sigourney Weaver again. Even though the man is a master of the movie domain, it’s a little relieving to…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Cthulhu Needs a Perky Blond Sidekick

Sure, a talking dog movie is money in the bank, but what about a talking Great Old One movie? Cthulhu is all the rage these days – there are freaking Cthulhu bunny slippers, for Yog-Sothoth’s sake! And since Lovecraft’s creations are all public domain, a studio could pen the script without having to license any…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Stop Worshiping Washing Machines And Meet Your New Hero

We’ve been excited for Franklyn for almost a year now, and there’s finally a trailer for the movie, opening in London in January. In one of the movie’s four intersecting storylines, Ryan Philippe plays Jonathan Preest, a homicidal gun-toting superhero in a dystopian future where you’re required to believe in a religion… but they don’t…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

An End to Paralysis with Artificial Brain-to-Muscle Connectors

Click to view Using a computerized connector between the brain and muscles in the body, scientists have been able to restore movement to paralyzed limbs. A group of neuroscientists report in Nature today that they used a brain-computer interface to join the motor cortex of an ape to the muscles in its wrist. After scientists…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Whip Your Padawan Muscles Into Shape With The Jedi Workout

AskMen.com has constructed a Jedi workout. Slogan: “you too could harness the Force in your muscular fitness.” The routine includes Force jumps, hyperspace holds, lightsaber pulls, and many others. Kudos for encouraging people to get out of their easy-chair, but shame for creating a workout called “space slug boots.” All my love to the first…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Major Outbreak Of Sequel-Itis At Fox

If you love reheated and recycled entertainment, then your heart will thrill to a recent interview with Fox co-chairman Tom Rothman. Coming off an apocalyptically bad summer (including Space Chimps, X-Files 2, The Happening, Meet Dave and Babylon A.D.) Fox seems to be looking backwards. Rothman told IESB he’s optimistic about upcoming films like The…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

UN Could Unleash Human Clones on the World Next Year

Anti-cloning advocates may want to keep their pitchforks at the ready. A United Nations bioethics committee is taking a second look at the UN’s current cloning policy, which condemns all possible forms of human cloning. Could the UN be on track to relax its views on cloning, or is it looking to ban the practice…

io9 Lauren Davis

Sexy New Repo Pics Show Silk Stockings And Surgery

It’s getting closer to the opening date of Repo The Genetic Opera, and these beautiful stills of a scantily clad Paris Hilton and Anthony Head (Giles) with his hands literally inside a screaming mans chest are rekindling my interest. I swore that I could love no other scifi musical like I loved Rocky Horror, but…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Joe Haldeman’s Back Catalog Could Make Hollywood Billions

With The Forever War that much closer to the big screen, maybe it’s time for Hollywood to take a closer look at Joe Haldeman’s other works as well. Haldeman is already talking about trying to have more creative input into movie versions of his other books, if the Ridley Scott film is a hit. So…

Movies Alex Carnevale

Zombie Stoners Blaze Up And Hit The Road

Finally, a movie that shows the apocalypse from the zombie point of view! Indie flick Deadheads follows a guy who wakes up a member of the dead-walking club, and tries to piece his life back together with his zombie buddy and a bag o’ weed. This movie could go one way or the other in…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The Not-So-Secret Fantasy of Every Fringe Fan

This week on Fringe, a hopeless dork who lives with his mom and has a dead-end job finds himself made into something “special” by science. Though this kind of plot crops up in nearly every Fringe episode, last night’s “Power Hungry” gave it a unique (and funny) twist. And in the process it revealed what…

Television Annalee Newitz

Summer Starts In January For Next Year’s Movies

If you can’t wait until next summer to get your first tastes of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek and McG’s Terminator: Salvation, then indie comic publisher IDW has some good news for you – you don’t have to. Starting in January, both big 2009 movies begin special “prequel” series designed to reward hardcore fans by letting…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Precious Hints About Wolverine’s Most Anticipated Guest Star

Good morning, spoiler lovers! A Fox exec dropped some hints about the character everybody’s most pumped up about in the new X-Men prequel film starring Wolverine. A new Transformers 2 set pic reveals who’s on set in a crucial sequence. And we got hold of another huge batch of script pages for an upcoming Chuck…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Sharp Aquos DX LCDs Come With Integrated Blu-Ray Recorders

If you’re in the market for a new television and a Blu-Ray player, Sharp will help you kill two birds with one of its new Aquos DXs. The company has released a line of LCD TVs that have built-in Blu-Ray disc recorders, which they tout as an all-in-one solution for recording television onto BDs… in…

Television Elaine Chow

The Original Cloverfield Had Less Yuppie Drama

The 1925 movie The Lost World is the precursor to everything awesome in the world. Based on the Arthur Conan Doyle novel, the movie follows a group of explorers beyond the edge of civilization, where they encounter cute sloths, camp-follower bears… and a weird apeman. Then they find dinosaurs, leading to cute claymation fights between…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Will the Neo-Depression Create a Drug Epidemic?

Many economic crisis periods in the U.S. have spawned drug epidemics. During the late-nineteenth century “long depression” or “crisis,” the use of opium reached epidemic proportions, and a few decades later the innovation of intravenous injection made heroin the drug of choice among 1930s Depression-era junkies. Heroin made a comeback during the 1973 Oil Crisis,…

io9 Annalee Newitz

International Space Station Bowel Movements in Crisis

Aw, shit! Seems that pesky 35-pound toilet at the International Space Station is broken…again. If you recall, back in June, the airflow-propelled galactic john experienced a spot of constipation due to a failed pump, leaving the poor chumps on board without a fully functional lavatory for roughly 10 days. According to Space.com, the latest “temporary…

io9 Nisha Gopalan

Sarah Jane Creamed The Daleks, Now She’s Stuck With Evil Clowns

Last night, Doctor Who’s kid-friendly spin-off series had the second part of its much-dreaded “evil clown” storyline, and it was pretty much as horrendous as we’d all feared. The good news, though, is that the new sidekick on the Sarah Jane Adventures, Rani, is actually pretty great. I’m getting over the loss of Maria and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Sinus Infection? Try Marijuana!

Good news and bad news, pot smokers. Marijuana contains highly-effective antibiotics that could be the key to stopping antibiotic-resistant bacteria. But unfortunately if you smoke the stuff, you become more vulnerable to infection — probably due to smoke damage in your lungs. Nevertheless, your prescription for medical marijuana just got a lot more useful. New…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Massive Dynamic’s Bionic Woman Drops A Bombshell

We got a chance to chat with Blair Brown, who plays Nina Sharp, the powerful face of the shady corporation Massive Dynamic, on Fringe. After talking to Brown, we were left with even more questions about J.J. Abrams’ weird science romp. But most interesting was the tiniest of hints Brown dropped about Nina’s past.Did they…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Cameron Talks Avatar And Teases The Dark Knight

Cthulhu Needs a Perky Blond Sidekick

Stop Worshiping Washing Machines And Meet Your New Hero

An End to Paralysis with Artificial Brain-to-Muscle Connectors

Whip Your Padawan Muscles Into Shape With The Jedi Workout

Major Outbreak Of Sequel-Itis At Fox

UN Could Unleash Human Clones on the World Next Year

Sexy New Repo Pics Show Silk Stockings And Surgery

Joe Haldeman’s Back Catalog Could Make Hollywood Billions

Zombie Stoners Blaze Up And Hit The Road

The Not-So-Secret Fantasy of Every Fringe Fan

Summer Starts In January For Next Year’s Movies

Precious Hints About Wolverine’s Most Anticipated Guest Star

Sharp Aquos DX LCDs Come With Integrated Blu-Ray Recorders

The Original Cloverfield Had Less Yuppie Drama

Will the Neo-Depression Create a Drug Epidemic?

International Space Station Bowel Movements in Crisis

Sarah Jane Creamed The Daleks, Now She’s Stuck With Evil Clowns

Sinus Infection? Try Marijuana!

Massive Dynamic’s Bionic Woman Drops A Bombshell

Fourth Most Populous Country in the World Bans Most Social Media for Kids

How to watch UFC Fight Night Adesanya vs Pyfer live this Saturday

‘Steel Ball Run’ Will Return This Year…Eventually

‘The Mummy 4’ Is Getting the Family Back Together

JD Vance Says UFOs Are Actually Demons

Breville Barista Express Espresso Machine Hits Its Lowest Price of the Year for Amazon’s Big Spring Sale, Cut Your Daily Coffee Costs at Home

Amazon Clears Out Govee LED Smart Light Bulbs (2-Pack) at a Record Low, Each Bulb Costs Just a Few Dollars

The First Proper ‘Ghost in the Shell’ Trailer Is a ’90s Anime Fever Dream

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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