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My God, It’s Full Of Future Technology

Forty years after its premiere, is the movie version of 2001: A Space Odyssey coming true? An article on science website PhysOrg.com claims that Stanley Kubrick’s vision of the then-future of space travel and human existence was more prescient than it initially seemed, way back in the swinging ’60s. The article – which begins “When…

io9 Graeme McMillan

A Suspension Bridge Built to Be a Musical Instrument

As we understand more and more about the materials to build suspension bridges, their shapes are going to become more bizarre and seemingly impossible. Architect Santiago Calatrava made this suspension bridge in Jerusalem to resemble the shape of a lyre, a stringed instrument popular during classical antiquity. This oddly-shaped suspension bridge will be completed this…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Which Summer Comic Event Comes Out On Top?

It’s the clash that you people have been asking for (well, some of you, anyway): Marvel’s alien invasion paranoiafest Secret Invasion versus DC’s superhero dystopia Final Crisis. Which one makes your heart flutter? Which one opens your wallet the most? And which, like the Hulk, is the strongest there is? Let’s take a look at…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Maximum Spoilers For Indiana Jones And Hancock

There are just three batches of spoilers this morning, but they’re all pretty heavy duty. The first set of full reviews of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull have come out, and they explain way more about the reasons for that movie’s title. Also, there was another test screening for Will Smith’s…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Speed Racer is Rewardingly Weird, State-of-the-Art CGI Slapstick

The hype about Speed Racer has been fairly negative, and I can only guess that’s because people still have a bad taste in their mouths from The Matrix Revolutions, the most recent film directed by Speed Racer helmers the Wachowskis. In addition, I think there’s been a lot of skepticism about whether the director pair…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Worst Lobster Attack Sequence Ever

A whole squadron of killer lobsters attacks comedian Bill Cosby and his wife, in this bizarre sequence from scifi comedy Leonard Part 6, which Cosby wrote and produced. “The offensive will start immediately!” proclaims Gloria Foster’s sequin-addicted supervillain. But really the offensive started about 70 minutes ago, including Cosby doing the Jane Fonda workout, Cosby…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Greatest Space Strategists In Military History

Everybody always gives props to space captains: they’re the ones sitting in the chair and commanding a spaceship going head-to-head with their bumpy-headed counterpart on the enemy ship. But one starship doesn’t always win a space battle. Sometimes it’s the general (or the admiral) sitting in an even bigger chair, who figures out where to…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

A Chinese Cure for Internet Addiction

It’s the future of nanotech pseudo-science and rehab all rolled into one strange package. Fritz Hoffmann took this picture for National Geographic in Guangdong province capital city Guangzhou. Apparently these strange masks, which remind me of something out of a cyberpunk anime, are “nanometer wave machines” used to cure addiction. The person second from right…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Look What’s On Tony Stark’s Workbench In Iron Man

Click to viewWe already knew Iron Man was full of little “easter eggs” and clues about the future of the Marvel movies. And now it looks as though one more hidden clue has turned up. Just look at this screengrab from the movie’s trailer, and then compare it with a picture of the same scene…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Like Iron Man, But More Metallic This Time

Halcyon, the king of the rushed-out copycat movies, has released the trailer for their long-awaited film about a superhero in power armor… Metal Man. (Not to be confused with Iron Man…but yeah.) They’ve also brought us Amphibious (Cloverfield), Replicator (Single White Female with robots) and Battle Space. The plot of MM sounds a bit different…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Eureka Avoids Dark Depression Trap of Shows Like “Full House”

Apparently fluffy Sci-Fi channel show Eureka, about a town of zany geniuses who do silly things, is just too dark. Even though every episode is packed with sappiness worthy of Full House, its creators have vowed to make it even “lighter” this season, packed with ultralite parodies of movies like Groundhog Day, according to Sci-Fi…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Canada To Save Humans From Extinction

Well, it’s about time. Asteroids hitting Earth has been a big problem for life this planet since forever, and at last governments around the world have been united in their inability to give a shit. And they did it without Gort the giant robot forcing them! Next year, the Canadian Space Agency will launch the…

io9 Michael Reilly

Computers Will Put Us All Out of Work! 1957

Whether automation helps or hurts workers is on an ongoing question. Here, at the beginning of the information age, a blinking, whirring, wall-sized EMERAC computer (a play on the real-life ENIAC) puts a group of reference librarians to shame in a scene from Desk Set (1957). Yep, there are pink slips in those pay envelopes.…

io9 Lynn Peril

Nine Reasons Why I Hate E.T.

With Speed Racer coming out this evening, it’s a time to remember cool kid-friendly scifi of the past — like The Incredibles and the Power Puff Girls. But it’s also time to excoriate hideous kids’ scifi of the past, just to remind ourselves what to avoid when we go looking for flicks to share with…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Igor Strikes Out On His Own As A Mad Scientist

Every mad scientist’s favorite whipping boy is taking a stand. It’s the 51st annual science fair, in a land where the population is made up of both evil and mad scientists. But the people that do all the work with no reward are the “Igors.” The main character Igor (voiced by John Cusack) thinks it’s…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The Bollywood Version Of Spider-Man Is Better, Because He Can Fly

The Bollywood version of Spider-Man, starring Shah Rukh Khan (Om Shanthi Om), now has a director — Anubhav Sinha, director of action-movie classics like Dus and Cash. Apparently the film will involve a Spider-Man-style superhero — except that he also soars through the air at supersonic speeds, like Superman. SRK is looking for his costar,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

First Look At Christopher Eccleston In G.I. Joe

The greatest Doctor Who star of them all, Christopher Eccleston, is playing a villain in the new G.I. Joe movie, and the first image of him without his mask has been released. There are also new pictures of Heavy Duty, played by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who will always be revered as Mr. Eko from Lost. Known…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Red Hot Cate Blanchett In New Indiana Jones Pics

A bunch of new publicity photos came out for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull — and Cate Blanchett looks totally smoking hot as an evil Soviet agent. I’d had my doubts about her weird hairdo before, but seeing some of the close-up publicity shots has converted me to Cate’s brand of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Food Riots Are Getting Worse

Prices for cornmeal and rice have doubled in Somalia since January, and on Monday food riots wracked the Somalian city of Mogadishu. Thousands of people protested the insane prices for staple foods, and eventually police shot and killed two protesters. Earlier this year, food riots broke out in the African nation of Senegal as well.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

First-Ever Example of a Computer Hack Attacking People’s Brains

Neal Stephenson speculated about computer viruses that could crash human brains in his classic novel Snow Crash, but the technology to do something like that has always seemed (luckily) far in the future. Now, however, computer hackers have created a loophole that lets them do it today. Over a month ago, a group of anonymous…

io9 Annalee Newitz

My God, It’s Full Of Future Technology

A Suspension Bridge Built to Be a Musical Instrument

Which Summer Comic Event Comes Out On Top?

Maximum Spoilers For Indiana Jones And Hancock

Speed Racer is Rewardingly Weird, State-of-the-Art CGI Slapstick

Worst Lobster Attack Sequence Ever

The Greatest Space Strategists In Military History

A Chinese Cure for Internet Addiction

Look What’s On Tony Stark’s Workbench In Iron Man

Like Iron Man, But More Metallic This Time

Eureka Avoids Dark Depression Trap of Shows Like “Full House”

Canada To Save Humans From Extinction

Computers Will Put Us All Out of Work! 1957

Nine Reasons Why I Hate E.T.

Igor Strikes Out On His Own As A Mad Scientist

The Bollywood Version Of Spider-Man Is Better, Because He Can Fly

First Look At Christopher Eccleston In G.I. Joe

Red Hot Cate Blanchett In New Indiana Jones Pics

The Food Riots Are Getting Worse

First-Ever Example of a Computer Hack Attacking People’s Brains

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

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