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New Barbarella Already Has Her Spaceship

Stop listening to those rumors that Robert Rodriguez’s Barbarella remake is failing to achieve escape velocity. Rose McGowan, who’s set to step into Jane Fonda’s go-go boots, says the movie is much further along than you realize. Not only is she signed up, but a lot of the pre-production work is done, including the costumes…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Two-Panel Cartoon Accurately Displays Progress of TVs, Your Waistband

Well, this just about sums it up. Now, the real question: to laugh or cry? [Clubic]

Books & Comics Adam Frucci

Your Consciousness Is Ten Seconds Behind the Present

The time it takes for sensory input to travel along nerves and get processed by the brains means we’re always living in the past. Okay, no problem — we can live with a few lost milliseconds. But ten seconds? A new study shows that once our brains make a decision (like “push this button”) it…

io9 Michael Reilly

A Laptop From 1893

Click to viewThe next time you’re feeling all smug and twenty-first century commuting into the office while using your laptop to catch up on emails or prep for a presentation, consider the following. Back in 1893, a publication called The Manufacturer and Builder hyped a new portable typewriter that could “readily be used on the…

io9 Lynn Peril

Stop-Motion Dinosaurs on Another Planet

You can never get enough dinosaurs in space, and that’s why indie filmmaker Larry Arpin spent the last several years filming his dinotastic space opera Galactic Raiders in the deepest California desert. The whole flick is done old-school, from the Ray Harryhausen-style, stop-motion dinos, to the retro Mitchell camera he filmed with. And the plot…

io9 Annalee Newitz

What If Your Blog Became A Future Society’s Mythology?

MGM isn’t just remaking Bill and Ted, it’s also greenlit a new spec script that sounds very Bill and Ted-esque. Bobism is about a shy college kid who discovers that life 1,000 years in the future is entirely based on his blog. (I’m guessing he learns this from time travelers.) Writer Ben Wexler has mostly…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Read Michael Chabon’s Script for Spider-Man 2

Michael Chabon wrote one of the smartest explorations of superheroes in his Pulitzer-winning The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, so it was exciting news when he agreed to write the script for Spider-Man 2. Unfortunately, some studio execs, in their wisdom, decided to bring in some other writers, including Smallville co-creators Al Gough and Miles…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Getting Ready for the Final Battle

This looks like the poster for an awesome science fiction film that we’d like to see: a girl in a giant hulking exoskeletal suit of armor with her comic-effect tiny little robotic pal perched on her shoulder. You’ve got evil signified by the pouring lava on the left hand side of the background, while fighters…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Matthew McConaghey Merely Tool Of Religious SF Pundits?

Is Star Trek one of the last hold-overs of a Godless science fiction that’s slowly dying off and being replaced by an SF where spirituality is one of the main themes? That’s one of the theories put forward by physicist and pastor George Murphy in his lecture Real Faith and Fictional Worlds, part of Calvin…

io9 Graeme McMillan

It’s X — In Space!

We all know the key to making something science fiction: Just take any old thing and stick it in space. It works every time! Got a bunch of dinosaur drawings but have to make a scifi cartoon show? Just put the dinosaurs in space! Or hey, how about race cars — but in space! Now…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Ron Moore Drags Us Back To The Holodeck

Battlestar Galactica producer Ron Moore is going back to his Star Trek roots for his next project, a “backdoor pilot” for Fox called Virtuality. Moore got his start writing for Star Trek: The Next Generation, which became notorious for its frequent episodes featuring the crew trapped inside a holographic simulation that got out of control.…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Collect Rainwater in Eco-Apocalypse Style

The wells are running dry, and it’s time to start collecting rainwater in your backyard. Designer David L’Hote lets you weather the climate change apocalypse in style with Rainpod, his new contraption for collecting rainwater. The Rainpod’s body is deliberately set high so it can use gravity to deliver the goods; the legs it stands…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

Soviet Monkey-Human Sex Experiments Live On

In a war-torn, forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union a battered laboratory stands, housing the remnants of twisted experiments. Some of the surviving tenants — part of an attempt by the insane veterinary doctor Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov to breed a slave race of ape/human hybrids — have escaped into the surrounding forest, their whereabouts unknown.…

io9 Michael Reilly

TV This Week: Doctor Who, Ben 10 And Smallville

There’s actually a lot of great science fiction TV coming up — unfortunately, it’s almost all at the end of the week. Doctor Who returns to the Sci Fi Channel, Ben 10 starts a new series with a more grown-up hero, and Smallville comes back from hiatus with an episode that will change everything. (Or…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

First Official Look at Bad Guys of “The Spirit”

For the past couple of weeks, unauthorized, unofficial images of the main characters from Frank Miller’s new flick The Spirit have been circulating online. The interest has been so intense that Lionsgate finally caved in to fan demand and released two CGI-treated images of the bad guys — Silken Floss, the evil secretary played by…

Movies Annalee Newitz

A Solar-Powered Death Ray

A Spanish company has built a “Solar Power Tower” near Seville that could easily become the world’s first orbital solar death ray. It generates electricity via sunlight without photovoltaic cells, using 624 mirrors called heliostats to focus sunlight on a receiver at the top of the tower. The system generates temperatures hotter than the surface…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Old Doctor Too Grumpy For Madonna, Claims Barrowman

Is this the start of a Torchwood/Doctor Who rift? John Barrowman, whose Captain Jack has made a point of jumping between shows, has weirdly spoken out about Christopher Eccleston, the revamped Who’s first Doctor, saying that he was too grumpy for his own good and comparing him to the more sociable current Doctor, David Tennant.…

Television Graeme McMillan

Vat-Grown Meat About to Hit Your Local Market

In five years, you’ll be eating a hamburger that no animal died for. Instead, that burger will have been grown from a tiny sample of cells in a plant-and-mushroom bath. The cow who donated the cells will be frolicking in a meadow somewhere, having long forgotten the annoying poke from a tissue engineer with a…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Party On With Little Known Excellent Adventures

Ignore rumors of a most heinous remake; there’s really only one place to go for more excellent adventures from William S. Preston and Ted Theodore Logan, and that’s the semi-forgotten 1991 comic spin-off Bill and Ted’s Most Excellent Comic Book. It comes right from the pen of Space Ghost: Coast to Coast writer (and Milk…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Who’s Marked For Death On Lost?

Welcome back to the morning spoiler zone. One Lost star has made some dire predictions about the life expectancy of his/her character. We’ve dredged up new details about Iron Man and Batman: The Dark Knight. Some new photos could hint at a major plot twist in X-Files 2, and another set of photos shows off…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

New Barbarella Already Has Her Spaceship

Two-Panel Cartoon Accurately Displays Progress of TVs, Your Waistband

Your Consciousness Is Ten Seconds Behind the Present

A Laptop From 1893

Stop-Motion Dinosaurs on Another Planet

What If Your Blog Became A Future Society’s Mythology?

Read Michael Chabon’s Script for Spider-Man 2

Getting Ready for the Final Battle

Matthew McConaghey Merely Tool Of Religious SF Pundits?

It’s X — In Space!

Ron Moore Drags Us Back To The Holodeck

Collect Rainwater in Eco-Apocalypse Style

Soviet Monkey-Human Sex Experiments Live On

TV This Week: Doctor Who, Ben 10 And Smallville

First Official Look at Bad Guys of “The Spirit”

A Solar-Powered Death Ray

Old Doctor Too Grumpy For Madonna, Claims Barrowman

Vat-Grown Meat About to Hit Your Local Market

Party On With Little Known Excellent Adventures

Who’s Marked For Death On Lost?

A QR Code Too Small to See Hints at a New, Non-Annoying Use for the Format

Andy Weir Apologizes After ‘Star Trek’ Comment Backlash

Scientists Discover Hidden Behavior in Water That Helps Explain Why Ice Floats

The ‘Paradise’ Season 2 Finale Paved the Way for a Wildly Sci-Fi Season 3

A $1 Samsung Galaxy Smartphone Lands at Mint Mobile With Unlimited Data at 50% Off in a Clearance Push

Your Wimpy Workouts Aren’t Cutting It, Scientists Say

Anker Prime Power Bank Drops to an All-Time Low (200W, 20,100mAh, 3-Port) as Amazon Clears Out Remaining Spring Sale Stock

Students Are Now Renting Smart Glasses to Cheat on Exams

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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