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You’ll Never Guess Which Doctor Who Character Is Coming Back!

When Bill Clinton chose “Don’t Stop Thinking About The Future” as his campaign theme song, you know he was really telling you to consume spoilers and obsessively glean info about every upcoming storyline in your favorite movies and TV shows. Right? He would want you to get an early glimpse at the characters from the…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Belkin FlyWire Wireless HDMI Box Beams 1080p Anywhere in Your House, Looks Fantastic

We first saw Belkin’s slick-looking wireless HDMI kit at CES, when it was due in September for about $600. Now dubbed FlyWire (nice and catchy!), they’ve got two initial entries: FlyWire will shoot full 1080p goodness using the 5GHz band to anywhere in your house, walls be damned, for $999. Plus, it has an IR…

Television Matt Buchanan

I Got Them Alien-Possessed Trucks Taking Over The Planet Blues

If you’re going to have to explain the most demented scifi plot in the universe — aliens using a comet to take over trucks and other machines, to wipe out humans before an invasion — it really helps to have someone nice mopping your face with a washcloth. And some bluesy guitar from AC/DC probably…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Future of an Ancient Idea

No matter what we do, the idea of teledildonics just won’t go away. Everybody wants to figure out how to put their thinger in somebody else’s thinger via bluetooth or TCP/IP or port 1337. Or, apparently, via the Wii. Check out these lovely new attachments for the Wiimote, created by a group at Bauhaus University…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Your Spoiler Forecast for 20 Movies And TV Shows

How much do you need to fear spoilers for your most eagerly anticipated TV shows and movies? It really depends on how susceptible to spoilers the movie or show is, and how much you care. We’ve classified 20 upcoming bits of science fiction entertainment, based on how likely you are to know what happens in…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Giz Explains: CableCARD and the Future of Cable TV

The big bad cable industry is under assault. The internet is stealing viewers who can check out their favorite shows on Hulu while fiber and IPTV deliver speed and features they can’t quite match. Yet. A new cable internet standard rolling out this year will let them catch up speedwise. To battle the dizzying array…

Television Matt Buchanan

Oh Canada, Bring Me My Zeppelin

Canada has at last entered the Zeppelin Age, and it looks as if Calgary, Alberta will be the first city to make the leap into an alternate history where people use giant, helium-filled balloons to move stuff around instead of trucks or trains. A Calgary-based company called SkyHook, working with Boeing, has developed what they…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Wake The Dead Will Have Guts, Director Tells io9

Io9 caught up with Wake The Dead director Jay Russell who has been elbow deep in human insides (or at least, right next to the insides) researching how modern society would really reanimate corpses. Russell filled us in on a recent trip to an actual operating room with Steve Niles, original creator of the Wake…

io9 Meredith Woerner

See The Roots Of Battlestar This Fall

Good news! While you’re rocking back and forth with Battlestar Galactica withdrawal until 2009, at least you’ll get to see some Cylon action. The BSG prequel TV movie Caprica will air this fall, according to TV Guide. No date yet, and no official word that it’s been picked up as an ongoing series. [Battlestar Blog]

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Secret Apprentice’s Tortured Story Comes Out

The plot thickens for Darth Vader’s sexy, angry Secret Apprentice. A new trailer from Entertainment Weekly reveals major plot points for the new Star Wars: The Force Unleashed video game, and show us just how crappy of a father figure Vader really is — cutting off his son’s hand is nothing compared to this. Also…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Monster Garage Creator Brings You Zombie Biker

It’s the same old story: Mechanic invents super-fuel, Mechanic refuses to sell super-fuel formula to corporation, Corporation drowns mechanic in super-fuel, Mechanic rises from the dead to take revenge on corporation. How many times have we read that old chestnut? Soon we’ll have another chance when Chopper Zombie, a new graphic novel from the creator…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Hancock Giant Robot Mystery — Solved!

Remember that alleged giant robot that we mentioned, which turns up in drunken superhero epic Hancock for a couple of seconds? The mystery has been solved! Comic Book Movie has tracked down the man everyone is calling “the Hancock monster.” It turns out he’s a guy on stilts covered with seaweed, who roams Hollywood Blvd.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Dr. Smith Unleashes A Cacophonous Concretion of Alliterative Abuse

I love “Lost in Space”—the campy 60s TV series, of course, and not the godforsaken 1998 movie. If you’re a fan, you know that one of the high—or low—points of the show was the ongoing battle of wits between the Robot and Dr. Zachary Smith. Robot led in the smarts department, but the thesaurus-packing Smith…

io9 Lynn Peril

Five Signs the United States Is Withering Away

Click to view The United States has existed for only a little over two centuries, which is a paltry amount of time when you consider that many nations and city-states have lasted for thousands of years (hello, Rome). Now it’s starting to look like this brief experiment with human government is going to fail, and…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Biggest Scifi Tease Ever: Aronofsky Linked To RoboCop Remake

The Hollywood Reporter claims that director Darren Aronofsky has visited MGM to discuss the remake of RoboCop. You know his work from the gorgeous fantasy flick The Fountain and gritty Requiem For A Dream. I couldn’t even imagine what RoboCop would be though the eyes of Aronofsky, but I know it would be a whole…

io9 Meredith Woerner

You Are Being Watched By Alien Phalanx Monsters

A video-game creature in London warns us that spy cameras are everywhere in public spaces. It’s almost as if the proliferation of CCTV cameras were the real “Space Invaders,” intruding into our lives whenever we go outside and subjecting us to intense scrutiny that might as well be a rain of laser blasts. The Space…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Lost Comic Epic Reappears On Australian Stage

The original Miracleman comic has been out of print for years and become famous for the legal battles surrounding its copyright. At one point, Sandman and American Gods writer Neil Gaiman took the creator of Spawn to court in order to regain copyright that he may never have owned in the first place. But who…

io9 Graeme McMillan

No One Ever Dies On Stargate Atlantis, Ever

We’re merely two days away from the season five premiere of Stargate Atlantis, the Stargate SG-1 spinoff about a space station/city. This Friday we’ll be able to get our fill of tough as nails Ronon and Sheppard’s cowlick. We already told you what would happen on the season premiere but now we’ve got more details…

io9 Meredith Woerner

A New Tribute To Weirdness, From Weird SF Author Paul Di Filippo

My new favorite blog is Weird Universe, a listing of weird happenings and cultural phenomena. It has three contributors: Ribofunk author Paul Di Filippo, one of my favorite writers of bizarre SF, Chuck Shepherd, writer of the News Of The Weird column for decades, and Alex Boese, creator of the Museum Of Hoaxes. They’re joined…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Scared of Bombs? Just Use Your Ray Gun!

“It’s a lot nicer if you don’t have to walk up to a bomb to find out what it is,” quips Larry Senesac of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. I would have to agree: roadside bombs are clearly no fun for anyone. That’s why Senesac and his fellow researchers have developed a laser system…

io9 Nivair H. Gabriel

You’ll Never Guess Which Doctor Who Character Is Coming Back!

Belkin FlyWire Wireless HDMI Box Beams 1080p Anywhere in Your House, Looks Fantastic

I Got Them Alien-Possessed Trucks Taking Over The Planet Blues

The Future of an Ancient Idea

Your Spoiler Forecast for 20 Movies And TV Shows

Giz Explains: CableCARD and the Future of Cable TV

Oh Canada, Bring Me My Zeppelin

Wake The Dead Will Have Guts, Director Tells io9

See The Roots Of Battlestar This Fall

The Secret Apprentice’s Tortured Story Comes Out

Monster Garage Creator Brings You Zombie Biker

Hancock Giant Robot Mystery — Solved!

Dr. Smith Unleashes A Cacophonous Concretion of Alliterative Abuse

Five Signs the United States Is Withering Away

Biggest Scifi Tease Ever: Aronofsky Linked To RoboCop Remake

You Are Being Watched By Alien Phalanx Monsters

Lost Comic Epic Reappears On Australian Stage

No One Ever Dies On Stargate Atlantis, Ever

A New Tribute To Weirdness, From Weird SF Author Paul Di Filippo

Scared of Bombs? Just Use Your Ray Gun!

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

The Best New Toys of March 2026

Judge Denies Liking LinkedIn Post Critical of Elon Musk But Reassigns His Cases Anyway

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

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

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