io9 | Page 5781 of 5931 | We Come From the Future

Alien Shapechangers Invade The Internet

Scared of the idea of having to find a comic store to buy Marvel Comics’ Secret Invasion series? You’re in luck — Marvel has created an alternative for people like you, as well as those who like to find free things online. Secret Invasion: Home Invasion is the name of the online comic addition to…

io9 Graeme McMillan

The New Age of Commercial Space Travel

NASA plans to retire the Space Shuttle program in 2010 and have a replacement, the Constellation, ready for launch in 2015. But the budget-starved space agency set the odds of making that deadline at only 65 percent in a report to Congress this week. Even if it meets the deadline, the Constellation’s launch will come…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Knight Rider Series To Have More Special Effects, And Maybe A Dog Detective

Proving that, despite what a lot of you thought, NBC’s series pick up of the new Knight Rider series is more than just a cheap April Fool’s hoax — Like we would be that cruel, come on — former Las Vegas showrunner Gary Scott Thompson has been named as the new series’ executive producer and…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Underground Fires that Burn For Decades

Sometimes a fire just won’t go out. Uzbekistan is home to a place called Darvaz, nicknamed by locals “the door to hell.” It’s a semi-underground gas fire that’s been burning nonstop for 35 years. Find out why, and see some close-up pictures of this hellmouth after the jump, plus another fire in Pennsylvania that has…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Bill And Ted’s Completely Unnecessary Remake

Click to viewAnother classic science fiction franchise is getting the “reboot” treatment, but its biggest star could be even harder to recast than William Shatner’s Captain Kirk. A new Bill And Ted movie finally got the green light — probably from the same people at MGM who thought that War Games sequel was a good…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Red Hot New Pics From Dark Knight And Iron Man!

The two most anticipated summer superhero films (sorry, Hulk) put out their most eye-grabbing images yet — and then the studio tried to withdraw them, in the case of Iron Man. We also have some new details about Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who and Smallville. Plus you’ll never guess which Lost character we’re going to see…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

What Happens If The Galactica Finds Earth?

The final season of Battlestar Galactica starts this Friday, which means Admiral Adama and his crew have just twenty episodes to find the legendary Earth. But even if they do make it to their goal, chances are Ron Moore and the other BSG writers will have at least one more twist up the sleeves of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Amazingly Awful Spider-Man

It’s pretty easy to see why the live-action Amazing Spider-Man show hasn’t ever made it to DVD. It’s not just the lame special effects, like the obvious stop-motion camerawork when Spider-Man uses his webshooters to grab someone’s gun or cobweb a gun-happy dowager. Nor is it the fact that every episode includes half an hour…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Massive Half-Life 2 Drydock Needs Defense and Some Paint

This is a drydock in HullBreach, a complete conversion for the Half-Life 2 video game. The team has an ambitious goal of creating 100% new content for the game, and they’ve been hard at work on it for several years. The game is set 2,000 years in our future, and involves a bloody world war…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Nanowire Power Shirt Generates Electricity While You Wear It

Now you can power your cell phone just by wearing a special shirt made of two tiny layers of nanowires that rub against each other as you move. These super-conductive wires are “piezoelectric,” generating energy through pressure and movement. The result is a shirt that generates more electricity the more you move around. A few…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Scott Baio Is 21 … And Telekinetic [NSFW]

The 1980s gave us an entire slate of movies that seemed to exist just to have as much teenage T&A as possible. Porky’s made gratuitous shower scenes a must-have, and producers began working in topless scenes left and right. But nobody thought of joining the teensploitation and science fiction genres until Zapped! came along. This…

io9 Kevin Kelly

What was in the Dharma Initiative Boxes in Lisbon?

To celebrate the premiere of Lost Season 4 in Europe, Portugese guerrilla marketing firm Torke collaborated with Fox to drop Dharma Initiatives boxes onto the streets of Lisbon. A couple of blogs mentioned this yesterday, but nobody has revealed what’s in them. What could be in it? A polar bear? Walt? (Maybe Walt.) Boxes of…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

Virtual Worlds as Test Tube Societies

Though you may never visit Second Life, you know about it for the same reason you know about MySpace: it’s a digital social space that’s transforming how we use the web. Except instead of being a bunch of webpages devoted to bad music and OMG WTF, Second Life is a 3D virtual world where people…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Eight Reasons So Many HD Channels Suck Ass

Sound & Vision just ran a cool expose on HD cable channels. How can so many good channels be stuck in SD land—I’m looking at you F/X, Comedy Central and Sci-Fi Channel—while new lame HD channels like CNN and QVC cut to the front of the line? And what about those so-called HD channels, like…

Television Wilson Rothman

Fancypants Garage of the Future Runs on IBM Cards, 1964

Candy-colored floors, bright white Eames-ish work stands, and a “punched card” holding all your car’s pertinent information: that’s the “Auto Service Center of Tomorrow” presented in United Delco’s ad for its exhibit at the ’64 World’s Fair. Your mechanic (is that him in the nosecone, dressed in antiseptic white?) takes the card, pops it into…

io9 Lynn Peril

Woman Gives Birth to Her Own Kidney

Got kidney cancer? Any non-functioning organs you want to get rid of? If you have a vagina, you’re in luck because doctors have discovered a new use for it beyond pleasure and procreation. It’s called Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopy Surgery (NOTES) and it means that doctors can magically pull your own kidney, appendix, or other…

io9 Michael Reilly

Hugo Nominees Available As E-Books (For Judges Only)

Four out of five Hugo-nominated novels are available for free, in electronic format — but only if you’re a Hugo voter. To receive copies of Halting State by Charles Stross, Brasyl by Ian McDonald, Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer and The Last Colony by John Scalzi, you have to send an email to [email protected] with…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

“The Ruins” Proves Plants are the New Big Bad

With all this eco-consciousness making everybody freak out, it was bound to happen that plants would start to haunt our nightmares. Freaky-ass pollen makes people kill themselves in M. Night Shyamalan’s new flick The Happening (coming in June). And in The Ruins (coming out this Friday), a bunch of U.S. teens hiking in Mexico get…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Psycho A.I. Nukes Philly — And We’re Still Bored

Things you will have to forget in order to enjoy War Games: The Dead Code: The fact that it’s supposed to be a direct-to-DVD sequel to War Games, the decent 1980s hacker-almost-starts-WWIII epic. The fact that even Homeland Security might be aware that “online gamers” and “terrorists” are probably mutually exclusive groups. And the fact…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Is Dark Energy the New Aether?

You may think physics has changed over the past 200 years, but it hasn’t. Today, theoretical physicists can’t understand why the universe is expanding at an observed rate that doesn’t quite mesh with general relativity. Back in the 19th century, theoretical physicists couldn’t understand how electromagnetic energy and gravity could propagate through empty space. The…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Alien Shapechangers Invade The Internet

The New Age of Commercial Space Travel

Knight Rider Series To Have More Special Effects, And Maybe A Dog Detective

Underground Fires that Burn For Decades

Bill And Ted’s Completely Unnecessary Remake

Red Hot New Pics From Dark Knight And Iron Man!

What Happens If The Galactica Finds Earth?

The Amazingly Awful Spider-Man

Massive Half-Life 2 Drydock Needs Defense and Some Paint

Nanowire Power Shirt Generates Electricity While You Wear It

Scott Baio Is 21 … And Telekinetic [NSFW]

What was in the Dharma Initiative Boxes in Lisbon?

Virtual Worlds as Test Tube Societies

Eight Reasons So Many HD Channels Suck Ass

Fancypants Garage of the Future Runs on IBM Cards, 1964

Woman Gives Birth to Her Own Kidney

Hugo Nominees Available As E-Books (For Judges Only)

“The Ruins” Proves Plants are the New Big Bad

Psycho A.I. Nukes Philly — And We’re Still Bored

Is Dark Energy the New Aether?

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

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

Let us help find what you are looking for...