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Now You Can Have the Real Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

In the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, the most indispensible form of technology is the Hitchhiker’s Guide itself, a pocket computer containing information (some of it wildly inaccurate) about every place in the galaxy. Now the good people at Instructables have a posted a cool project that lets you create your very own Guide…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Something For Everyone Who Likes Awesome In This Week’s Comics

Stop now, what’s that sound? It may just be the stampede of new books hitting comic stores tomorrow – As we get closer to San Diego Comic-Con, publishers are stepping up their game, and tomorrow’s haul includes first issues, final issues, deaths and resurrections and all manner of exciting things to make your hump day…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Solar Lily Pads Leave Robot Paw Prints on Glasgow River

How can you use solar energy to power one of Scotland’s greatest cities and make an old river look futuristic? Scottish architecture firm ZM Architecture designed giant lily pads for the River Clyde that collect solar energy and energize the city’s grid. Want to see a cool aerial view? From a distance, they look like…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

The Trouble With Hancock

Last-minute problems may be plaguing the drunken superhero comedy Hancock. This Saturday Will Smith was seen in full Hancock gear filming last-minute reshoots in Times Square. How is this possible for a movie set to release on July 2? Sadly, it’s not a good sign for our leather-clad hero. More details on the reshoot, set…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Scary New Look At The Spirit’s Octopus

Samuel L. Jackson graces the cover of Comic-Con Magazine as The Spirit’s Octopus. Good to see he’s sporting the signature gloves, we’ll have to let director Frank Miller do the explaining for the fur coat. Jackson, a self proclaimed comic fan, actually brought books for Frank Miller to sign while filming The Spirit according to…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Lost Destroys Spacetime, Celebrates Science

Is Lost about to destroy the very nature of time, space and reality itself when it explains how Ben managed to get off the island recently? That’s the theory from Popular Mechanics magazine after they looked into the real life science behind what they call “the first mainstream TV show since Mr. Wizard to make…

io9 Graeme McMillan

A Gorgeous Monument to Radioactive Decay

What do you do when you have a barn-sized pile of nuclear waste materials that you have to store for 100 years while it loses its toxicity? In the Netherlands, the answer was to stick it inside a giant art project: specifically, this orange building called the Habog Facility, covered in physics formulas by Einstein…

io9 Annalee Newitz

DC Makes Decisions To Bring Superheroes Into Politics

While Green Arrow has never made much effort to hide his particular brand of liberalism – including running for (and winning) the role of Mayor of Star City – the same can’t be said of other superheroes. Is Batman really the hardline republican that we all suspect him of being? What kind of “American Way”…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Stare Into The Faces Of The New Thundercats!

We only have a few precious spoilers for you this morning, but they do include an alleged first look at the mighty leonine heads of the Thundercats, from their CGI movie, which IMDB says is coming in 2010. Also, there’s a new plot synopsis of the City Of Ember movie, starring Bill Murray and coming…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Dude, the Drugs on This Planet Are Like . . . Whoa

We’ve got to do something about this whole “phantom planet thing,” or so says a general in the marvelously-titled The Phantom Planet. Made in 1961, immortalized by Mystery Science Theater 3000 and a cheesy band, the flick is filled with drugged-out scenes on a distant planetoid. This is a true classic of proto-psychedelic scifi. After…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Doctor Who’s Dadshock Is Really Grief

This is actually quite a nice moment, from the latest episode of the BBC’s time-traveling soap opera Doctor Who. David Tennant gives a surprisingly understated performance as the alien traveler who’s lost his entire race, including his family. And Catherine Tate makes the transition from zany “dadshock” jokes to actual substance surprisingly well. There was…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Fox Will Be Home Of Paranoia And Virtual Unreality Next Spring

Fox has picked up J.J. Abrams’ X-Files-esque show Fringe and Joss Whedon’s amnesiac-puppets-in-dystopia show Dollhouse for January 2009. And now Fox is taking more of an interest in Ron Moore’s new astronauts-in-virtual-reality-show Virtuality, based on the reports that Peter Berg (Hancock, Dune) may direct the pilot and produce the show. Click through for more details…

io9 Meredith Woerner

No, Bitches, It’s Not a Designer Baby

It’s inevitable: the media has not only confused human reproductive cloning with “designer babies,” but in fact they have confused a stem cell experiment with designer babies too. I love my sensationalist science as much as the next person, but the London Times has gone batshit with its reports that a GM human embryo could…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Sun Is Exploding!

The sun is giving off solar eruptions so massive, it looks like a huge volcano. Amateur astronomer Peter Lawrence snapped this amazing close-up of the flares shooting into space from the sun’s eastern limb, using a solar telescope and filter. Could this herald the appearance of a new sunspot? Or an ancient civilization emerging from…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

You Are Already in a Game. Right Now.

My favorite new mind-bending idea is an extension for Firefox released today by brainy game designers Merci Grace and Justin Hall. It’s called PMOG, for passively multiplayer online game, and it turns the entire web into a fantasy world where you can go on quests. Like all cool art, PMOG makes apparent something that you…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Tastiest Food Moments in Science Fiction

A juicy virtual steak convinces Cypher to betray Morpheus, Trinity and Neo in maybe the most famous non-bullet-y scene from The Matrix. When you start paying attention, you notice how important food is in science fiction, whether it’s dehydrated Pizza Hut, orgasm inducing desserts or fish biscuits. Even condiments get shout outs: in Dune the…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Pick The Worst Scifi Movie Sequel Of All Time

Now that we’re already discussing Iron Man 3, and filming may soon start on the Superman Returns sequel, it’s a good time to look at science fiction’s wreckage-strewn history of bad and weird sequels. From the crazy dancing in The Matrix: Reloaded to the crazy dancing in Spider-Man 3, few genres have created as many…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The “World’s First Television Lounge,” 1949

In 1949, ordinary Americans were buying televisions to an extent that some bar owners worried that the sets installed in their establishments would no longer draw the crowds they once did. That’s why the savvy owner of New York’s Hotel Beverly opened a special lounge featuring a “‘life-size’ television receiver” that projected the image on…

io9 Lynn Peril

Battlestar Galactica’s Prequel Has A Sinister Star

The Sci Fi Channel has found the one actor creepy enough to help relate the origin of the the Cylons, that cyborg race that nearly destroys humanity in Battlestar Galactica. Eric Stolz, whom you might remember as the pervy dad from The Butterfly Effect or as everyone’s favorite junkie from Pulp Fiction, will play patriarch…

io9 Meredith Woerner

BBC Destroys Cute Knitted Versions of Doctor Who Monsters

I’m not a big letter-writing campaign person, but a line has been crossed when the BBC starts taking away cute knitted dolls that look like Doctor Who monsters. Apparently some kind of copyright nonsense inspired a wanker at BBC legal to force the nice knitter at Mazzmatazz to remove all the cool patterns posted there…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Now You Can Have the Real Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Something For Everyone Who Likes Awesome In This Week’s Comics

Solar Lily Pads Leave Robot Paw Prints on Glasgow River

The Trouble With Hancock

Scary New Look At The Spirit’s Octopus

Lost Destroys Spacetime, Celebrates Science

A Gorgeous Monument to Radioactive Decay

DC Makes Decisions To Bring Superheroes Into Politics

Stare Into The Faces Of The New Thundercats!

Dude, the Drugs on This Planet Are Like . . . Whoa

Doctor Who’s Dadshock Is Really Grief

Fox Will Be Home Of Paranoia And Virtual Unreality Next Spring

No, Bitches, It’s Not a Designer Baby

The Sun Is Exploding!

You Are Already in a Game. Right Now.

The Tastiest Food Moments in Science Fiction

Pick The Worst Scifi Movie Sequel Of All Time

The “World’s First Television Lounge,” 1949

Battlestar Galactica’s Prequel Has A Sinister Star

BBC Destroys Cute Knitted Versions of Doctor Who Monsters

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

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

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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

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