StairCASE’s Bottom Shelves Keep Highest Books in Reach

It’s no surprise that a dude who lives in a city of 18 million people would appreciate the need to conserve space. Shanghai-based artist Danny Kuo created the StairCASE, a bookcase where the shelves slide out to become a stairwell. We’ve seen the amalgamation of shelves and stairs before in London, but StairCASE can be…

The Past and Future of Economic Dystopia

Yesterday marked the beginning of a new era of economic dystopia — at least, if the stock market is any guide. Former U.S. Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan called the current stock market freefall a once-in-a-century economic crisis. After the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than…

How To Get Root On Angelina Jolie’s Brain

Could this be the greatest Angelina Jolie moment ever? Long before she starred in Wanted — before Hackers, even — she played a cyborg named Cash Reese in 1993’s Cyborg 2, directed by the great schlock-meister Albert Pyun. Here are some of our favorite moments from the film, including a scene where a lady hacker…

Which Fall TV Show Will Get Canceled First?

The fall TV season is in full swing again, and it’s not too late to speculate about which shows are headed for an early doom. After all, it’s not unheard of for shows to last a few episodes, then vanish into DVD heaven. In fact, this could be your chance to get your vote in…

Original MILF Jennifer Coolidge Tells io9 About Her Hot CG Curves In Igor

Ever since Jennifer Coolidge played Stifler’s Mom many have fantasized about watching her bend and snap. Now the world’s first MILF is providing the voices for the dark CG animated film Igor, playing the bad girl that slaps around the help (the Igors) plus a big-lipped Swede. We spoke with Coolidge and she told us…

X-Files to Become First Fox Blu-ray Release With BD-Live

Like 99.99% off all the people on this planet, you probably missed The X-Files: I Want To Believe when it crash landed, burning and smoking into theaters over the summer. Not to worry though—Fox is hoping that adding BD-Live functionality to the upcoming Blu-ray release will help soften the financial blow. Thanks to BD-Live, loyal…

New Production House Makes It Easier For Smaller Comics To Sell Out

It’s not just Marvel, DC and Dark Horse who are making their comics into movies anymore; now, independent publishers and creators will have the chance with the formation of Framelight Productions, a new movie production house that aims to involve comic creators in every step of the movie process. Amongst the first movies on their…

Vote for Nurglon, the Giant Monster Choice!

Are you looking for a U.S. presidential candidate who meets crucial requirements such as having given birth to millions of children? Then you’ll want to vote for Nurglon, who has 5,000,000 children and good ole religious values (it worships Cthulhu). Plus, it meets one of the other prerequisites for being a U.S. president: Yes, folks,…

Does the literary establishment still look down on science fiction through its glossy monocle? Apparently so, judging from a panel that took place at New York City’s New School over the weekend. Time Magazine’s Lev Grossman argued for tearing down the artificial distinction between “high art” and genre writing, and claimed that the recent trend…

No-One Understands John Connor But His Woman

John Connor radiates brooding loner, and that makes him a magnet for the crazy chick who talks about apples and carrots. It’s so rare that you get to see a relationship turn dysfunctional in its first five seconds, but somehow last night’s Sarah Connor Chronicles pulled it off. Everything that rules about the Terminator show…

Spherical Bots Fight Crime in a Rollercoaster Sky City

Sick of anthropomorphic bots grabbing the spotlight? Then meet RollBots, a superkinetic new CG animated series about roly-poly robocops and robbers, coming to the U.S. (from Canada) in February. Think of it, visually, as a cross between Speed Racer and Pokémon…then imbued with edgier metaphors. No, really! Creator Michael Milligan tells io9: “It’s aimed at…

Earth-Ending Chemical MW Is Leaking All Over The Internet

The creator of rocket-booted Astro Boy, Osamu Tezuka’s, apocalypse movie, MW, has been on the back burner for sometime now. But the shroud of mystery over the movie version of the popular manga title has lifted and now the new website is up and running, hopefully this means we’ll get to see some stills as…

Apocalypsemobile Update: The One-Week Thrash

Work on the io9 Apocalypsemobile continues at a feverish pace. We’ve got an update on the Mad Maxification of our ’94 Saturn station wagon, and there’s still a lot to get done in the next few days if we want to race in this weekend’s “Super Saturday Four-Cylinder Enduro.” Reciprocal saws – is there anything…

The Doctor Who/Harry Potter Crossover You’ll Never Get To See

If Doctor Who’s head writer Russell T. Davies had had his way, the next episode of the time-travel action-comedy would have starred Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling. Not only that, but Rowling would have dragged David Tennant’s Doctor into the Potter universe. But that’s not the only shocking revelation in Davies’ newly released emails to…

In The Future, We’ll Communicate Through Pouches In Our Necks

Need a place to stash your cell phone and your smokes? Designer Francesca Lanzavecchia has designed a PU foam neck brace that will keep your talking hands free while you’re busy finding new friends. One of the braces has a stretchy second skin that allows you to store things that will eventually be stolen from…

io9 Parties at The Fete Unleashed

It finally hit stores this morning, but for true fans of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, there was only one place to be last night – San Francisco’s “The Fete Unleashed,” a launch party for the game that counted down to a midnight release, and featured cosplaying fans, confused Best Buy staff – and a…

The Roots of Today’s Science Fiction Go Back Centuries

Click to viewScience Fiction came of age in the 19th Century under the talents of writers like Mary Shelley, Jules Verne, and H.G. Wells. But before these authors stands a long history of proto-science fiction tales, replete with voyages to the moon, socially and technologically advanced civilizations, and visions of the future. We’ve delved into…

Rodney McKay Twitters His Goodbye On The Last Days Of Stargate Atlantis Filming

Sadly, this week marks the end of Stargate Atlantis filming. David Hewlett (the great Rodney McKay) Twittered his goodbye yesterday from the set, “Shooting the last scene, of the last episode, of Stargate Atlantis…2 more days of filming but this is it…thanks so much everyone!” It hurts so much, but the pain is sweet because…

CrappyCat Fights Monsters Using the Power of Alcohol

If you need some flash game diversion on this fine Tuesday, consider joining CrappyCat on his strange voyage into another dimension. CrappyCat is both a cool toy and an interactive adventurer: Fueled by alcohol, he fights penguins, humps robots, plays ping pong with monsters, eats living ice cream, and eventually is defeated by a monster…

How Dystopian Can Alaska Get?

To celebrate Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s nomination as vice president, the Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction has posted its 2004 story, “Nine Whispered Opinions Regarding the Alaskan Secession” by George Guthridge. It’s a collection of nine vignettes about a future Alaska where genetically modified fish and environmental devastation have combined with politics to make…