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For Just $285,000, You Can Have Your Jetpack

Known as Fusion Man, he’s the Swiss Eval Knieval of the air, and yesterday he plunged to earth 7500 feet from an airplane at over 180 miles an hour, buoyed only by four jets strapped to his back. But in reality, he’s just a pilot named Yves Rossi who built the jet wings himself —…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Jerry Bruckheimer Renames Science-Investigator Show

Eleventh Hour, the cult British TV series starring Patrick Stewart as a scientist who investigates abuses of science for the government, is getting a new name in its U.S. incarnation, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The American version, starring Rufus Sewell, will be called Elemental. Bruckheimer made a $4 million pilot that wowed CBS, and the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Goosebumps’ Mutant Plant Clones Take To The Big Screen

Columbia Pictures has bought the rights to R.L. Stine’s teen book series Goosebumps. But if they want the movie to be a huge success with the free-spending twenty-somethings who grew up on the series, Columbia and producer Neal Moritz (I Am Legend, Prom Night) should focus on the books’ more science fictional story-lines instead of…

io9 Meredith Woerner

New York Invaded By Art School Cyborgs

In New York and looking for a weekend exploration of meeting between man and machine? Then Last Rites Gallery’s new Cyberdine show may be exactly what you’re looking for. Mixing work by two wildly different artists working on similar themes, the show (which opens on Saturday) is certain to appeal to the Terminator fetishist inside…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Yes, Superheroes, There Is Life After 50!

What happens when superheroes retire? Italian cartoonist Donald Soffritti knows best, because he draws them—in humorous, imaginative, and fantasy-wrecking detail—at their worst. For example, Wonder Woman has traded in her Amazonian hotness and superpowers for a cigarette, a chihuahua, and a lot of extra layers of fat. Sad. Keep reading to find out what happens…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

Speed Racer Could Have Been Star Wars, Says John Scalzi

In an interesting column over at AMC, scifi writer and film critic John Scalzi explains why Speed Racer is doomed not so much because of its content, but because of the changing economics of film distribution. He points out that when Star Wars went into wide release in 1977, it garnered the equivalent (adjusted for…

io9 Annalee Newitz

How Superhero Movies Made Comic Books Cooler (If Not Better)

Click to viewEverybody talks about how superheroes have come to dominate movies in recent years. These days, summer is spandex season, and it’s only going to get more superpowered in the next few years. But the success of movies like Spider-Man 2, Iron Man and Batman Begins has had a huge effect on comic book…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Read England’s Secret UFO Documents

Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) has released the first batch in a series of the government’s UFO files. Now available on the internet, the papers include a number of claimed sightings, detailed descriptions and the MOD’s assessment of each report, stretching from 1978 to 2002. Some witnesses even took the initiative to draw out what…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Zombies Will Eat Your Brains… In 3-D!

When will the 3-D beast’s lust for destroying movies be satisfied? Fangoria is now reporting that George A. Romero’s legendary 70s classic, Dawn of the Dead, is getting rereleased in 3D. But at least they are refraining from re-editing this staple zombie flick in any way. Producer Richard Rubinstein said, ‘George’s Dawn of the Dead…

io9 Meredith Woerner

How To Train Your Robot To Recognize You

When you come home from work at night, does your robot greet you at the door expectantly, or does it sit there impassively in its recharging node because it can’t tell the difference between you, the mailman, and Emilio Estevez? Today’s computer scientists are hard at work making sure tomorrow’s robots won’t leave you feeling…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Marvel’s Baby Boom Just Latest In Long Line

If creator Chris Claremont gets his way, GeNext – Marvel’s new series about the children of today’s X-Men, which launched on Wednesday – is just the start of a new line of comics where we find out about the children of today’s stars of four-color-page and screen. But after numerous previous attempts, is the world…

io9 Graeme McMillan

The Savage Colors of Naked, Toxic Sea Snails

There is a kind of soft, toxic snail that lives in the sea called a Nudibranch. The many kinds of Nudibranch all have intense coloration and weird shapes — so weird, in fact, that National Geographic just devoted an entire gallery to the strange creatures. See below for more multicolored, deep-sea weirdness worthy of Cthulhu’s…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Discover The Secret Of Lost. Maybe.

The secret to Lost may be the kind of thing that Samuel Beckett knows a thing or two about. Not Samuel Beckett the writer, however; I’m talking about Scott Bakula’s displaced scientist from 1980s time-hopping show Quantum Leap. At least, that’s the theory behind Jason Hunter’s website, called Lost: A Theory on Time Travel. According…

io9 Graeme McMillan

First Look At Anna Torv In Fringe And Hiro’s New Foe!

Today’s spoilers include clips from the next episodes of castaway drama Lost and time-travel adventure Doctor Who. And another early review of M. Night Shyamalan’s apocalyptic movie The Happening gives away most of its plot twists — but they don’t sound that twisty in any case. We have the first promo image from J.J. Abrams’…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Loni Anderson Explains About the Time The Hulk Cried

When you look back at the 1970s TV series The Incredible Hulk, with Lou Ferrigno playing the big green guy, you feel in your bones how wrong it is to make the upcoming movie version of the monster CGI. How could any CGI creation ever capture the pathos in this scene, where Hulk cries over…

io9 Annalee Newitz

7 Reasons Why Scifi Book Series Outstay Their Welcomes

Click to viewWhy do so many amazing novels sprawl into so-so trilogies? Let alone blah tetralogies, or dull ten-book series? Blame “Herbert’s Syndrome,” in which a great writer gets tempted to keep writing about a popular universe, like Frank Herbert’s Dune, long after its expiration date. (The Fantasy Review coined the term “Herbert’s Syndrome” back…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Scott Lobdell Tells io9 The Fates of the Galaxy Quest Crew

What happened to the crew of the Protector after their ship crash landed into the scifi convention? We asked Scott Lobdell, writer of the new Galaxy Quest comic, based on the comedy movie about actors who meet aliens who have taken their old science fiction show way too literally. After the jump, check out an…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Wall-E Has Gotten Loose And Is Roaming L.A. Streets

Disney’s adorable robot was spotted wandering the streets of L.A., in a fully animatronic version that looks just like the animated incarnation. Watch the video as he rolls up on the tips of his tracks, peers into the videographer’s lens, and waves. WALL-E even fields a few questions from passer-bys on the sidewalk . But…

io9 Meredith Woerner

We Will Beam Advertisements Directly Into Your Brain

You’re walking down the street and suddenly a voice starts whispering seductively in your ear. “It’s a surplus of style . . . Don’t you want to chill in the Gap’s surplus shorts?” Have you finally lost it and started hallucinating bad ad campaigns speaking inside your head? Nope, you’re experiencing a technology that’s already…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Official Indiana Jones Fedora Available Now For Nerds Everywhere

The reason that the official Indiana Jones Fedora is available on Think Geek is that only geeks think that they can pull off wearing a fedora in the year 2008. The only fedora you (us) nerds should stick to is Red Hat’s version, leaving Indiana Jones’ to the still handsome but greying Harrison Ford. If…

Movies Jason Chen

For Just $285,000, You Can Have Your Jetpack

Jerry Bruckheimer Renames Science-Investigator Show

Goosebumps’ Mutant Plant Clones Take To The Big Screen

New York Invaded By Art School Cyborgs

Yes, Superheroes, There Is Life After 50!

Speed Racer Could Have Been Star Wars, Says John Scalzi

How Superhero Movies Made Comic Books Cooler (If Not Better)

Read England’s Secret UFO Documents

Zombies Will Eat Your Brains… In 3-D!

How To Train Your Robot To Recognize You

Marvel’s Baby Boom Just Latest In Long Line

The Savage Colors of Naked, Toxic Sea Snails

Discover The Secret Of Lost. Maybe.

First Look At Anna Torv In Fringe And Hiro’s New Foe!

Loni Anderson Explains About the Time The Hulk Cried

7 Reasons Why Scifi Book Series Outstay Their Welcomes

Scott Lobdell Tells io9 The Fates of the Galaxy Quest Crew

Wall-E Has Gotten Loose And Is Roaming L.A. Streets

We Will Beam Advertisements Directly Into Your Brain

Official Indiana Jones Fedora Available Now For Nerds Everywhere

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

Amazon Slashes 50% Off Keurig K-Cup Pod Coffee Maker, Now a Budget Alternative to Breville and Nespresso Espresso Machines

Sun’s Latest Outburst Complicates Planned Launch of Artemis 2

Instagram Will Finally Let You Lurk to Your Heart’s Content—for a Price

Popular Sweetener Found in Protein Bars Tied to Stroke, Blood Clot Risk

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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