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No Star Trek In Your Stocking This Year

Those teaser posters that claim Star Trek will beam into theaters this Christmas will be collector’s items some day. Paramount has delayed the film until the summer of 2009. The 2008 summer crop of films looks like a geek traffic jam: Iron Man, Indiana Jones IV, The Dark Knight, The Incredible Hulk, Hellboy 2, X-Files…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Japanese Military Continues Its Quest to Make Gundam Real

Since late last year, the Japanese military has been working on projects aimed at “realizing” Gundam, the mobile armor suit that is both combat exoskeleton and A.I. in several popular anime and manga series. Just yesterday, the Defense Ministry of Techinical Research and Development Institute in Japan rolled out these new tanks, whose high-tech specs…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Critics Hate Stephen Chow’s Hit Scifi Movie

The good news: Stephen (Shaolin Soccer) Chow’s venture into science fiction, CJ7, has been a huge box-office smash in China, in spite of record-breaking snow storms. The movie has made an impressive US$18 million in its first two weeks, meaning that other Chinese film-makers may be tempted to ditch martial arts for space adventure. The…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

A New Glimpse Of Doctor Who Season Four

A new trailer for Doctor Who season four has been showing in British movie theaters, and now some blurry cameraphone copies have turned up online. We have the least eye-abusing of these, plus some crazy-but-maybe-true Doctor Who rumors. We also have some new Lost spoilers, and a first look at the latest addition to the…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Indiana Jones IV Trailer Makes Us Wet Our Pants

Here’s the trailer for the most anticipated movie of all time, at least for me: Indiana Jones IV. We knew there are going to be aliens and Soviet soldiers led by Cate Blanchett, but one thing is seeing those made of LEGO and the other is to actually see how all looks like. Which is,…

Movies Jesus Diaz

Indiana Jones And The Roswell Alien Coverup

A government facility in Roswell, NM plays a big role in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, judging from a leaked bootleg of the movie’s first official trailer. So it looks like the rumors about Indy getting involved with some extraterrestrials are true. The trailer also shows a fight sequence in the…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Tongue-Shooting Action in Doom

Doom is one of those rare naratives that works both as a violent video game and a violent movie. Here, in the film version, you can see why. A weird virus/mutation/science whatsit has gotten loose in a research station on Mars. It’s turning everybody into angry monsters who shoot tongues. But that’s not all: apparently…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Become A Post-Human Tentacle Monster Today!

When the mutants rise up and start culling the inferior humans from the population, you’ll need some protective coloration to survive. So now is a perfect time to prepare, by shoving disc-shaped silicone implants under your skin to look like a half-octopus mutant. A post-human fashion statement is just a short trip to Sao Paulo,…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Another Bomb Drops On Jericho

The post-apocalyptic rebuilding may have begun on last night’s Jericho, but the CBS show’s own restoration after a cancellation scare looks like it’ll be short-lived. The season opener failed to beat a rerun of Law and Order, and an original Boston Legal. The episode’s 7.1 million viewers was much better than the tail end of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Fire A Retro Rocket Into Your Living Room

If you want to snaz up your rumpus room with a retro-pop science fiction look, your options have been limited to old posters from The Day The Earth Stood Still or glow-in-the-dark stickers. But now you can have install actual vintage-looking rockets, from Cool Rockets. They obsess over details in their rocket designs, making sure…

io9 Kevin Kelly

300 Baby Stars In Our Nearest Star-Factory

Newborn stars are surrounded with dust in the Rho Ophiuchi dark cloud, in this new image from the Spitzer Space Telescope. Only about 407 light years from Earth, Rho Oph is one of the closest star-forming regions to us. There are more than 300 young stellar objects within the central cloud, which contains the crucial…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Strangest Story About The Matrix You’ll Ever Hear

Sometimes watching the climax of a movie can be a little more climactic than you might think. In this video, a hacker named Jake explains something very NSFW that is related to Agent Smith beating the crap out of Neo. After this story, you might want to take the blue pill. This is the second…

io9 Annalee Newitz

All Your Precious Little Moon Minerals Belong On This Carrier

Somewhere between the Eagle from Space: 1999 and the Resurrection Ship from Battlestar Galactica lies Oliver Scholl‘s conceptual design for a space carrier, from for the movie Moon 44. While it seems to be an unwritten rule that designers need to stick sharp spires on one end of a ship, and massive engines on the…

io9 Kevin Kelly

The Great Garloo Used To Smash Railroads And Destroy Cities, But Now He’ll Have a Tea Party With You

In 1961, Marx Toys advertised The Great Garloo as “an out of this world movie monster” for “every kid who has ever seen a science fiction movie” and showed him going on a rampage, destroying rail bridges and high tension wires. Click through for a video of Garloo’s wimpy friend. Combined with his evil looks,…

io9 Lynn Peril

Now You’re Cooking With Tachyons: The Best Scifi Kitchen Gadgets

According to 1950s newsreels, the wonders of our age are supposed to include a dream kitchen that uses ultrasonic waves to clean our plates, automatically cooks our food for us and does all the shopping. But so far, all the best kitchen toys are still in science fiction. Check out our roundup of gadgets from…

Movies Kevin Kelly

You Probably Own These In A Galaxy Far, Far Away

While we’ve all seen some pretty bad Star Wars merchandise in our lives, only Jason Geyer – a former product designer who worked on merchandise to support The Phantom Menace – can let us know just how lucky we are that things weren’t much, much worse. After all, did the world really need Bantha Slippers…

io9 Graeme McMillan

A Bright Future Vision, For A Change

Short fiction is returning to Futurismic, one of our favorite SF webzines which frequently publishes Ruth Nestvold, Chris Nakashima-Brown and Jason Stoddard, among others. The site has been fiction-less since last April, but plans to start running monthly free stories again in March. And for those of you who are sick of gloom and doom,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Science Nerds Crush Boston at AAAS, Starting Tomorrow

As you read this, I’m on a plane zooming to Boston where I will meet up with a zillion other science geeks at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. I’m speaking on a panel about science blogging on Saturday afternoon, along with several other distinguished panelists including Patricia Campbell,…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Head-Splitting Karate Chop Makes Tie Fighters Explode

Darth Vader tosses throwing-stars the size of dinner plates at Luke Skywalker. Who then unmasks Vader and karate-chops him so hard, he splits in half. It’s the climax to Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (The Man Who Saved The World), usually called Turkish Star Wars. Not only does the Turkish film make liberal use of clips from…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Daft Punk + Kanye West + Tron = TechnoHipHopScifi

If you watched the Grammy awards on Sunday, then you saw the robotic duo Daft Punk in its first televised performance ever, with Kanye West. West comes out and does his thing in front of a large pyramid, which later lights up with neon piping and splits open to reveal Daft Punk in Tron-inspired versions…

io9 Kevin Kelly

No Star Trek In Your Stocking This Year

Japanese Military Continues Its Quest to Make Gundam Real

Critics Hate Stephen Chow’s Hit Scifi Movie

A New Glimpse Of Doctor Who Season Four

Indiana Jones IV Trailer Makes Us Wet Our Pants

Indiana Jones And The Roswell Alien Coverup

Tongue-Shooting Action in Doom

Become A Post-Human Tentacle Monster Today!

Another Bomb Drops On Jericho

Fire A Retro Rocket Into Your Living Room

300 Baby Stars In Our Nearest Star-Factory

The Strangest Story About The Matrix You’ll Ever Hear

All Your Precious Little Moon Minerals Belong On This Carrier

The Great Garloo Used To Smash Railroads And Destroy Cities, But Now He’ll Have a Tea Party With You

Now You’re Cooking With Tachyons: The Best Scifi Kitchen Gadgets

You Probably Own These In A Galaxy Far, Far Away

A Bright Future Vision, For A Change

Science Nerds Crush Boston at AAAS, Starting Tomorrow

Head-Splitting Karate Chop Makes Tie Fighters Explode

Daft Punk + Kanye West + Tron = TechnoHipHopScifi

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Samsung Slashes $350 Off 49″ Odyssey Curved Gaming Monitor to Clear Out Stock on Amazon

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Lego Is Bringing Bionicle Back, But Not in the Way You’d Want

Richard Branson Is Still Trying to Make Space Tourism Happen, Selling Tickets at $750,000

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