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Floating Chinatown Also Future Home To Olympic Kegger

Meet the new Chinatown. Gone are the streets cluttered with cheesy restaurants and unauthentic looks – hello, floating star city. The Superstar city (from the minds of MAD) is a work of conceptual architecture that remedies the old “Chinatown” stereotype. Calling the old look a “kitsch image of contemporary China,” the designers propose this radical…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The Most Accurate (and Inaccurate) Predictions About Homes of the Future

Click to view For decades, scifi movies and futurist documentaries have promised us domestic bliss via flying cars and housecleaning droids. We may not have home heliports yet, but several old movies actually got it right when it came to predicting the crazy gadgets that would be in our homes today. We’ve whipped up an…

io9 Stephanie A Fox

3rd Rock Child Not Akira’s Psychic Anti-Hero So Far

Wondering who may be playing Tetsuo Shima in the live action remake of classic manga and anime Akira? The answer isn’t Joseph Gordon Levitt, survivor of crappy alien comedy 3rd Rock From The Sun and soon-to-be Cobra Commander in the upcoming GI Joe movie. Well, not yet, anyway.Levitt, who’s won critical praise for his roles…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Feast 2 Trailer Is A Pretty Little Massacre

The blood and guts of beasties, ripping apart their next human meals, are on the menu in the lovely new trailer for Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds. Honestly, I really like the look of it. Unfortunately, I’m almost 100% sure this is just more proof of Project Greenlight’s John Gulager’s ability to edit together an interesting…

io9 Meredith Woerner

McGregor Will Be The Goat Clooney Stares At

The star-studded psychic war movie Men Who Stare At Goats may have added a few more studs. Ewan (Moulin Rouge) McGregor is in talks to play a desperate report who discovers that George Clooney’s Army veteran has psychic powers, thanks to a secret government program. The two of them travel across Iraq in the movie…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

All Your Fringey Questions Answered: Can You Talk To A Dead Man’s Brain?

Did you get your fantasy science mixed up with your real science in last week’s episode of J.J. Abrams’ Fringe? Did you find yourself saying, “Wait a minute how does an injectable virus spread so quickly?” Popular Mechanics has got it all straightened out for you. Hear from the real world experts on plane-landing autopilots,…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Contest Reminder: Last Chance to Win a Sharp Aquos 37-Inch TV

Got the answers to those questions yet? If not, you had better get started because today is the last chance to enter and win a 37-inch Sharp Aquos TV. Here is how to enter.

Television Sean Fallon

Tokyo Zombie: Zombies, Cage Fights, Oral Sex, and Martial Arts

Welcome back to MangoBot, a biweekly column about Asian futurism by TokyoMango blogger Lisa Katayama. What if zombies took over Tokyo? How would a slow zombie fare in a cage fight against a martial arts expert? Has a zombie ever offered you a blowjob? These questions and more are answered in a funny, slightly X-rated…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

Iron Man 2 To Be In 3D And Imax And Maybe Give Back Rub, Too

How can Marvel Studios build on the success of this summer’s second-biggest superhero movie? Well, if you listen to Iron Man’s director, the ambitious and excitable Jon Favreau, the answer is to make its sequel into the kind of movie that will overwhelm you with its visuals. Because they’ll not only be in your face,…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Sigmund And The Sea Monsters The Movie: Because New Ideas Are Expensive

Scraping the bottom of the idea barrel, Universal goes back to the 1970s to reboot the adorable monster-suit film Sigmund And The Sea Monsters. But the question remains: Will Universal come up with their story ideas the same way the Sid-And-Marty Krofft staff did, which I can only assume is a mix of uppers, downers…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The Official Rules for Destroying Cities with Giant Monsters

We’ve been eagerly anticipating the release of Monsterpocalypse, the tabletop game of giant monster destruction, for months now here at io9. With the first set of monsters hitting game stores in just a few weeks, Privateer Press has released the full rulebook for the game in PDF form. Yes, it has giant monsters chucking buildings…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Brendan Fraser: I Could Have Been J.J. Abrams’ Superman!

Brendan Fraser was asked to don the super-spandex in the J.J. Abrams’ Superman: Flyby film (which was being developed way back in ’02- ’04). But the incredibly complicated story of Abrams’ Superman never panned out, but I still want to see the sweeping Kryptonian civil war trilogy, featuring Lex Luthor as an X-Filesagent. Fraser sheds…

io9 Meredith Woerner

A Collection of UFO Photographs from 1870 to 2008

A UFO enthusiast has put together an 8-minute video featuring about a zillion UFO photographs culled from approximately the last century and a half. You’ll see familiar favorites — like this saucer-shaped one — and bizarro images of floaty blobs and streaking lights. The video is set to music, most of which is pretty good,…

io9 Annalee Newitz

New Movie To Redeem Seven Samurai For SF Fans

News comes from the Toronto Film Festival that Fox has bought a new script by the writer of Armageddon and Alien Vs. Predator: Requiem that will reboot the classic movie The Seven Samurai and give it a science fiction spin. Is anyone else getting a Battle Beyond The Stars flashback around now?The script, currently entitled…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Iron Man 2 Villain (Maybe) Revealed! Plus A New Transformer In Action!

Everybody’s spoilering for the weekend here. To keep you going for the next couple days, we’ve got a hint about a swinging Iron Man 2 villain, plus some telltale video of the Transformer you didn’t believe could possibly exist. In action! Plus, find out which zombie movie borrows romance tips from Woody Allen. And which…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Giant, Super-Intelligent Bears Beyond the Dimension Door

OK, so it’s like fifty years in the future and the planet is dying of pollution or war or something. And a corporate mogul guy invents teleportation technology that allows him to terraform a remote planet with some kind of mega-oxygen-producing plant. In indie B-movie Savage Planet, though, you can ignore the cool teleportation and…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Targeted “Nano-Missiles” in Your Bloodstream Make You Tumor-Proof

Click to view One of the biggest problems for doctors dealing with tumors is getting medicine to the targeted part of the body. When you want to dose only a very specific area in the body, a shot or pill won’t cut it: The medicine doesn’t reach the target tissues in a high-enough concentration, and…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Beware Germany’s New Ruler, The Dino-Bot!

This fire-breathing dino-bot menaced the crowds at a robot art show in Cologne this past weekend, and Johl from Flickr was there. He captured the prehistoric flame-throwery fury of the prehistoric robot amazingly well. Also at the show: a robot baby, a robot rock band, and a post-apocalyptic car-bot whose fuel source was on fire!…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Cute Time Machine Overload

Meet Chuffy the mouse and his cyborg guinea pig time machine. This taxidermy creation is a BoingBoing find, and it captures the best of a new scifi subgenre I hope will soon catch on: Techie Cutie Creepy. Has Pokemon already been there? Basically all I want is something that brings together my freakish addiction to…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Superhero Movie Flood Hasn’t Even Started Yet

In a couple of years, it’s going to feel like you’re swimming in superhero films, many of them remakes of remakes, or retellings of classics. Fox Movies has announced a handful of Marvel Comics properties it would like to develop — including a couple of X-Men films and another Daredevil film that pretends Ben Affleck…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Floating Chinatown Also Future Home To Olympic Kegger

The Most Accurate (and Inaccurate) Predictions About Homes of the Future

3rd Rock Child Not Akira’s Psychic Anti-Hero So Far

Feast 2 Trailer Is A Pretty Little Massacre

McGregor Will Be The Goat Clooney Stares At

All Your Fringey Questions Answered: Can You Talk To A Dead Man’s Brain?

Contest Reminder: Last Chance to Win a Sharp Aquos 37-Inch TV

Tokyo Zombie: Zombies, Cage Fights, Oral Sex, and Martial Arts

Iron Man 2 To Be In 3D And Imax And Maybe Give Back Rub, Too

Sigmund And The Sea Monsters The Movie: Because New Ideas Are Expensive

The Official Rules for Destroying Cities with Giant Monsters

Brendan Fraser: I Could Have Been J.J. Abrams’ Superman!

A Collection of UFO Photographs from 1870 to 2008

New Movie To Redeem Seven Samurai For SF Fans

Iron Man 2 Villain (Maybe) Revealed! Plus A New Transformer In Action!

Giant, Super-Intelligent Bears Beyond the Dimension Door

Targeted “Nano-Missiles” in Your Bloodstream Make You Tumor-Proof

Beware Germany’s New Ruler, The Dino-Bot!

Cute Time Machine Overload

The Superhero Movie Flood Hasn’t Even Started Yet

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor And an Action Figure!

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

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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Floating Chinatown Also Future Home To Olympic Kegger

The Most Accurate (and Inaccurate) Predictions About Homes of the Future

3rd Rock Child Not Akira’s Psychic Anti-Hero So Far

Feast 2 Trailer Is A Pretty Little Massacre

McGregor Will Be The Goat Clooney Stares At

All Your Fringey Questions Answered: Can You Talk To A Dead Man’s Brain?

Contest Reminder: Last Chance to Win a Sharp Aquos 37-Inch TV

Tokyo Zombie: Zombies, Cage Fights, Oral Sex, and Martial Arts

Iron Man 2 To Be In 3D And Imax And Maybe Give Back Rub, Too

Sigmund And The Sea Monsters The Movie: Because New Ideas Are Expensive

The Official Rules for Destroying Cities with Giant Monsters

Brendan Fraser: I Could Have Been J.J. Abrams’ Superman!

A Collection of UFO Photographs from 1870 to 2008

New Movie To Redeem Seven Samurai For SF Fans

Iron Man 2 Villain (Maybe) Revealed! Plus A New Transformer In Action!

Giant, Super-Intelligent Bears Beyond the Dimension Door

Targeted “Nano-Missiles” in Your Bloodstream Make You Tumor-Proof

Beware Germany’s New Ruler, The Dino-Bot!

Cute Time Machine Overload

The Superhero Movie Flood Hasn’t Even Started Yet

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor *And* an Action Figure!

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

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

Let us help find what you are looking for...

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor And an Action Figure!