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Guide to Recent U.S. Generations, Including Elusive Anti-Anti-Utopians

Joshua Glenn, the brains behind Boston Globe blog Brainiac, has written a fascinating essay on U.S. generations — you know, like the Boomers and Generation X, two groups who considered themselves the most futuristic and modern types around. But Glenn argues that there are a lot of hidden generations that haven’t gotten much play despite…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Michael Bay Writes Like a Five Year Old

Michael Bay promises loads of new robots in his Transformers 2 sequel, promising us they’ll be “really unique.” You mean more unique than a Xbox 360, a soda vending machine, and a steering wheel transmorgrifying into lame-o- boticons? Just so you don’t forget, this movie franchise has already included “unique” robots that piss on people’s…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Bad Science Looks Killer In “Sunshine”

We can’t wait for Danny Boyle’s Sunshine to come out on DVD next Tuesday. Sunshine might have been the best SF movie of 2007, even though its science was iffy in places. Take this cool-looking scene, where hapless communications officer Harvey tries to jump from one spaceship to another without a suit and doesn’t quite…

io9 Charliejane

Destroy All Planets with the Best Scifi Superweapons

Let’s face it, there are times when something like a laser pistol, a fancy light-up sword, or the ability to crush people with your mind just won’t get the trick done. When you’re commanding an entire fleet of ships hell-bent on invasion, you need a weapon that’ll really get things done. In the world of…

io9 Kevin Kelly

io9 Analyzes Three Leaked Scripts for Watchmen

While Director Zack Snyder is working away feverishly to complete his live-action adaptation of Alan Moore’s seminal Watchmen graphic novel, we decided to take a look at the three versions of the film’s script floating around on the etherwebs. This project has had several stalled-out development attempts since 1986, and reading through some of these…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Science Proves That Drinking Makes You Horny

You probably already guessed this from observation in the real world, but alcohol makes people hornier and more likely to hit on you cluelessly. Now a team of researchers from Penn State have gotten a bunch of fruit flies drunk on a daily basis to prove that mating behavior skyrockets when you’re an alcoholic. And…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Ernesto Neto’s Bouncy White Humanoid Blobs

Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto likes soft, blobby, stretchy membrane-like things. He likes to hang them from walls, slather them across the floors, and wrap human beings in them. He uses materials like nylon and cotton for maximum softness, and sometimes even fills them with aromatic spices. People love going to see his exhibits because they…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

Killing Aliens Runs In The Family

The Old Man’s War universe isn’t just for men any more. A new quasi-sequel will follow the old man’s daughter into more battles with claim-jumping aliens. That’s just one of the many, many books that military SF maven John Scalzi is putting out in 2008 and 2009. Scalzi’s newly announced pipeline also includes a sequel…

Books & Comics Charliejane

Ten Kickass Songs About Comic Books, Plus One Weird Ditty

What are the best songs about comic books, other than Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man”? I asked Douglas Wolk on IM the other day because he’s the only person I know who is obsessed with comic books and music simultaneously. (He’s the author of the awesome Reading Comics and Live At the Apollo about James Brown.)…

io9 Annalee Newitz

An Ice-Bound Research Station on Another Planet

The multi-spiked item in the artwork above may be some sort of high-tech craft touching down for directions, or it could be a very advanced research station set up over a crevasse in Antarctica. Probably outfitted with scads of sensors, heated seats, and a fancy beverage dispenser as well. That is, unless it’s a crashed…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls

Yes kids, it’s time for Horrorhead, a fortnightly column where grossout chaser Annalee Newitz talks about the dark intersection of scifi and horror. Tonight I’m going to a “special advance press screening” of cell phone horror flick One Missed Call because I’m so starved for new scifi-horror that I’ll take anything — even a haunted…

io9 Annalee Newitz

You Could Play Megaman’s Robot Girlfriend

Casting notices just went up for a fan-made movie about Megaman, the Japanese videogame character. Director Eddie Lebron (who’s already made a Ghostbusters fan-movie) is willing to pay non-union actors to star in his Megaman epic. The storyline sounds pretty close to established lore: Dr. Light develops super-robots (including two friendly robots named Rock and…

io9 Charliejane

Where The Hell Is Our Diamond Age?

Last year at the Television Critics Association, where professional couch pota… er, critics get together to be spoon-fed updates from the networks about what to watch during the upcoming season, the Sci Fi Channel announced that George Clooney and his buddy Grant Heslov were developing Neal Stephenson’s awesome The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady’s…

io9 Kevin Kelly

F. Scott Fitzgerald Vs. Mork From Ork

Director David Fincher has a movie coming out in November called The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, based on the story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald (you know the guy who wrote The Great Gatsby, that book you read in AP English). It’s about a man who is born in his 80s…

io9 Kevin Kelly

South Park Creators Camp Up Monster Island

Trey Parker and Matt Stone are set to do to Japan what they did to the U.S. in Team America World Police: inflate every pop-culture stereotype until it soars overhead with a loud farting noise. The only twist is, their new movie Giant Monsters Attack Japan! will be aimed at kids. Find out the reason…

Movies Charliejane

A Drinking Game for New Issue of “Ultimate Human”

Welcome to New Comics We Crave, a weekly column from io9’s comics czar Graeme McMillan, a rather shy young Scottish lad whom you may know from Newsarama or Fanboy Rampage. Ordinarily published on Tuesdays (in time for you to prepare for Wednesday, the Sacred Day of New Comics), this week it’s coming at you late…

io9 Grae

Hussein Chalayan Wants to Dress You in Lights

Forget about paisley dresses and giant platform heels, even though they kinda made a comeback in 2007. British/Turkish Cypriot designer Hussein Chalayan understands that in the future, clothes will no longer be static. They will disappear, shrink, stretch, and light up while you wear them so that people don’t get bored of looking at you…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

The Romantic Shenanigans of Alexander Graham Bell

The ostensible topic of Seth Shulman’s new book, The Telephone Gambit, is how Alexander Graham Bell cheated his way into owning the phone patent. Apparently Bell copied research from his chief rival for the lucrative patent, Elisha Gray. This revelation isn’t particularly stunning in our era of patent litigation and IP wackiness, and that’s why…

io9 Annalee Newitz

This Time, The Doctor Faces Giant Wasps, Red Nail Polish and Girls

Following on from the season 4 trailer tacked onto the end of last week’s Christmas Special, Doctor Who fans are fairly sure they know what to expect when the series returns in March: another villain from the original series. One fan gushes ungrammatically on a Doctor Who message board: I am more convinced then ever…

io9 Grae

Impossible Skyscrapers and One Hippodrome

Early twentieth century architectural renderer Hugh Ferriss secured a lasting legacy with his urban futurist drawings of looming Art Deco buildings, mysterious domes, sensuous spaceships, and skylines that look eerily like today’s cities and downtowns. For his modernist visions of the city — some of which really remind me of Mike “Hellboy” Mignola’s work —…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Guide to Recent U.S. Generations, Including Elusive Anti-Anti-Utopians

Michael Bay Writes Like a Five Year Old

Bad Science Looks Killer In “Sunshine”

Destroy All Planets with the Best Scifi Superweapons

io9 Analyzes Three Leaked Scripts for Watchmen

Science Proves That Drinking Makes You Horny

Ernesto Neto’s Bouncy White Humanoid Blobs

Killing Aliens Runs In The Family

Ten Kickass Songs About Comic Books, Plus One Weird Ditty

An Ice-Bound Research Station on Another Planet

Your Cell Phone and Television Are Haunted by Scary Girls

You Could Play Megaman’s Robot Girlfriend

Where The Hell Is Our Diamond Age?

F. Scott Fitzgerald Vs. Mork From Ork

South Park Creators Camp Up Monster Island

A Drinking Game for New Issue of “Ultimate Human”

Hussein Chalayan Wants to Dress You in Lights

The Romantic Shenanigans of Alexander Graham Bell

This Time, The Doctor Faces Giant Wasps, Red Nail Polish and Girls

Impossible Skyscrapers and One Hippodrome

New Theory Says We’ve Been Overcomplicating the Big Bang

Artemis 2 Day 2: Follow the Mission With Our Live Updates 🔴

Marvel Might Have Finally Dealt With One of the Most Hated ‘Spider-Man’ Characters Around

China Is Trying to Grow New Forests in This Notorious Mega-Desert. It’s Working

RAM Prices Are Threatening the Viability of the Raspberry Pi and Single-Board Computing

Michael B. Jordan’s First Post-Oscars Film Looks Way Cuter Than ‘Sinners’

LLMs Will Protect Each Other if Threatened, Study Finds

The Octopus Penis Arm Doesn’t Just Deliver Sperm—It Sniffs Out the Sweet Spot

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DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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