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Nicholas Hope Will Lead Your Teenage Resistance Against The Aliens

Past Farscaper Nicholas Hope has been dubbed leader in Andrew Dillon’s alien invasion film and TV series, Resistance. Aliens try to overcome the Earth and it’s up to a small band of super-smart teenage fighters to convince the rest of the world that aliens exist, while dealing with dating, tests, zits and the horror of…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Wash that Quarantine YAZPM Experience Out of Your Brain

Here’s the thing with Quarantine, the new zombie outbreak flick that hit theaters this weekend: It’s YAZPM. You know: Yet Another Zombie Plague Movie. How does this YAZPM distinguish itself from its predecessors in the genre? Not by much. The outbreak is contained to a creepy apartment building, which I hope will spawn a round…

io9 Annalee Newitz

My Unstable Green Friend, My Enemy – Hulk To Go Bad?

Click to viewIn a move that surprises no comic fan, it’s beginning to look a lot like the villain in Marvel Studios’ The Avengers movie will be the computer-generated, green-skinned star of The Incredible Hulk. As screenwriters and directors from this summer’s two Marvel movies hint at a gamma-powered bad guy for 2011’s team-up blockbuster,…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Bumblebee Video, Dollhouse Scripts, And The Elle-Claire Moment You’ve Waited For

There’s a whole weekend’s worth of spoilers to get caught up on, including a video of Bumblebee in action in Transformers 2, and an insanely detailed description of Piccolo’s costume in Dragonball. If you’ve been wondering how ordinary people feel about the brainwashed puppet factory in Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse, then some new script leaks have…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Horde Makes Mobster Zombie Pie And Feast III Details

Welcome back! This week, we’ve got the first storyboard still from Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher’s film La Horde (The Horde) which puts together, cops, robbers, zombies and skyscrapers. The image is fantastic and in full below. Plus footage John Gulagers’ Feast III has been screened and it’s got three times the blood and guts…

io9 Meredith Woerner

We Saw This Asteroid Coming from a Mile Away

Click to viewWith all the hullabaloo about giant asteroids that could destroy us, we tend to forget the little guy. Luckily, NASA’s Catalina Sky Survey has it covered. Last Monday, CSS astronomers caught sight of an incoming object zooming toward the Earth, and by the time of the asteroid’s impact on Tuesday, NASA engineers had…

io9 Nivair H. Gabriel

Would You Let These People Into Your League of Evil?

Did Joss Whedon and co really know what they were letting themselves in for when they invited fans of Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog to apply to join the Evil League of Evil by posting audition videos to YouTube? The answer may be yes – but that doesn’t stop us being surprised, amused and in some…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Recycled Robots Refuse To Resort To Type

Last week, we told you about Nerdbots’ method of recycling, but they’re not the only ones making finding new things to do with yesterday’s debris – Jeremy Mayer is also finding new ways to turn trash into a particularly beautiful robotic art.Mayer has been making sculptural robots out of typewriters for more than a decade…

io9 Graeme McMillan

America Can’t Help But Fall For Zombies

The box office hit of the weekend is definitely Quarantine, which took the top spot on its first day of release with a $5,350,000 haul, despite showing on fewer screens than its closest competition (Disney’s Beverly Hills Chihuahua; Quarantine earned $2174 on average per screen, against $1398 per screen for the little dog movie). Don’t…

io9 Graeme McMillan

My Own Worst Enemy Fails To Live Up to Admittedly Meager Expectations

My favorite episode in the 10-year run of Alfred Hitchcock’s famous anthology series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, is “The Case of Mr. Pelham.” It concerns a man being stalked by a person who he believes to be his double. By turns frightening and utterly insane, the drama builds with just a few sets and actors. And…

io9 Alex Carnevale

5 Ways To Make Star Trek More Like Star Wars

So we’ve been told that the writers of next year’s Star Trek reboot want to “bring more Star Wars” to Gene Rodenberry’s brightly-colored vision of America’s interstellar tomorrow. But what does that actually mean? We’ve given it some thought and come up with five ways in which the crew of the Enterprise should model themselves…

io9 Graeme McMillan

The Alternate History of the Discovery of America

We all know that Leif Ericson beat Christopher Columbus to the New World, but Chris gets his own holiday because his voyage marks the beginning of Europe’s influence in the New World. But what if someone had beaten the Europeans to the punch? What if no culture ever developed the technology or drive to find…

io9 Lauren Davis

That’s Not A Planet: Darth Vader Flies Again

Yet more proof that Star Wars has taken over the world, these pictures from the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta show a Giant Darth Vader Head Hot Air Balloon being inflated… and rising above the crowd like a true Sith Lord should.The photos were taken and sent to us by reader Doug Greth, who told us,…

io9 Graeme McMillan

A Robot with Pigtails? What Next, Japan?

The creepiest — or most exciting — thing you will see on YouTube today is this new video of the Repliee R-1, an android that just went for its first spin at the 2008 CEATEC Exhibition in Japan. Based on an actual five-year-old girl, this robot can speak, wave, walk, pick things up, and even…

io9 Nivair H. Gabriel

If We Can Have Wonder Woman Day, Where’s Our Wonder Woman Movie?

If the news of her new collaboration with fashion icon Diane Von Furstenberg is anything to go by, Wonder Woman is making quite the cultural comeback – and just in time for the third annual Wonder Woman day in Portland, OR and Flemington, NJ, as well. But what we’re wondering is this: If she’s big…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Drop-Down, Rotating 103-Inch Plasma Screen Video is Pure, Glorious Gadget Porn

I can’t decide if it’s the subtle piano playing in the background or the slow, seductive movement of this 500-lb., 103-inch plasma that’s got me all hot and bothered today. I guess I could care less either way, because this dancing television is all sorts of wonderfulness. And it’s practical too, as the 180-degree rotation…

Television Jack Loftus

U.S. Wants Nanobots and Exoskeletons To Win Futurewar

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology Thomas Killian has one word for you: “nanobot.” He’s thinking about how to sell that idea – along with many other potential methods of futurewar – to futurearmies, and the answer may be at Army Experience Centers, which introduce young people directly to the technology…

io9 Alex Carnevale

Transformers Roll Out in Zhejiang Province

Transformers was the first foreign cartoon allowed to air in the People’s Republic of China, and the tales of robots in disguise have left an indelible impression on a generation of Chinese men. One fan, Mr. Zhu of China’s Zhejiang province, has used his love of Transformers to turn a profit. Zhu constructs his own…

io9 Lauren Davis

Captain America Discovered In Hulk’s Antarctic After All

After all the pre-release back and forth over whether Captain America would make some kind of appearance in this summer’s The Incredible Hulk, it turns out that he was there all along… In the original, previously-unseen version of the opening scenes. With the imminent DVD release of the movie, fans can see what they missed…

io9 Graeme McMillan

City of Ember: Bill Murray, Two Kids, Saving a Post-Apocalyptic City From Aging Tech

With City of Ember, a post-apocalyptic adventure tale starring Bill Murray, two kids, and some aging gadgetry, the mecca of Bill Murray gadget movies, Ghostbusters, has some good company. In Ember, Murray plays the hapless mayor of Ember, an underground city that humanity created to escape calamity in the not so distant future. Trouble is,…

Movies Jack Loftus

Nicholas Hope Will Lead Your Teenage Resistance Against The Aliens

Wash that Quarantine YAZPM Experience Out of Your Brain

My Unstable Green Friend, My Enemy – Hulk To Go Bad?

Bumblebee Video, Dollhouse Scripts, And The Elle-Claire Moment You’ve Waited For

The Horde Makes Mobster Zombie Pie And Feast III Details

We Saw This Asteroid Coming from a Mile Away

Would You Let These People Into Your League of Evil?

Recycled Robots Refuse To Resort To Type

America Can’t Help But Fall For Zombies

My Own Worst Enemy Fails To Live Up to Admittedly Meager Expectations

5 Ways To Make Star Trek More Like Star Wars

The Alternate History of the Discovery of America

That’s Not A Planet: Darth Vader Flies Again

A Robot with Pigtails? What Next, Japan?

If We Can Have Wonder Woman Day, Where’s Our Wonder Woman Movie?

Drop-Down, Rotating 103-Inch Plasma Screen Video is Pure, Glorious Gadget Porn

U.S. Wants Nanobots and Exoskeletons To Win Futurewar

Transformers Roll Out in Zhejiang Province

Captain America Discovered In Hulk’s Antarctic After All

City of Ember: Bill Murray, Two Kids, Saving a Post-Apocalyptic City From Aging Tech

Do ‘Disclosure Day’ Prep With a Spielberg Sci-Fi Marathon

How to Watch the F1 Japanese GP 2026 on a Free Channel

Ranking 2016’s Superhero Debuts, 10 Years Later

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

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

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The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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

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