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Photo-Surrealist Favelas Metastasize in the Citiscape

Dionisio Gonzalez makes photo mashups of urban spaces, converting every kind of city architecture into twisted, brokedown shanties that look a bit like a Brazilian favela and a bit like chunks of mirrored highrises. Marginal II, above, is a great example of his work. It’s a sharp rejoinder to designs that portray future cities as…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Evil Brain Commands You To Watch

You can watch the Evil Brain From Outer Space and many other scifi B-movies for free. Right now, instead of being a productive employee, you could be watching Starman use his Globemeter to track the missing brain of Balazar. Other choices include Santa Claus Conquers The Martians, Bad Taste and Planet Outlaws Just go to…

Movies Charliejane

First Movie to Capture Events on the Scale of Femtoseconds

In this rather unassuming movie, released over the weekend, you can see something human eyes have never gazed on before: a 200-nanometer-wide channel opening and closing in a semiconductor crystal. This event was captured at CalTech with an ultrafast electron microscope and slowed down considerably for video. In real life, the channel would open and…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Top Four (Legal) Mind-Performance Enhancement Drugs

You already know about Provigil, also known as “professor’s little helper,” but what about other favorite performance-enhancing drugs among people who think for a living? According to yesterday’s Los Angeles Times, everyone from classical musicians to physicists are gobbling down “attention enhancers” and “fear blockers.” So what are the most awesome brain-sharpening drugs? https://gizmodo.com/a-performance-enhancing-drug-for-scientists-and-profess-335844 Concentration-enabler…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Steel Hand Phantom Strikes In 3-D

The first ever 3-D TV show, Mayavi (Steel Hand Phantom), is spreading throughout India and winning awards in Korea. After superspy Vikram loses his hand in a covert op gone wrong, he gains a new bionic hand. Each finger has a different superpower. Learn all his finger powers, and see another pic, after the jump.…

Television Charliejane

Ultimate Spoilers For Hulk, Jumper and Babylon

Since today is Boxing Day, it makes all kinds of sense to give some deep-down dirt on upcoming action movies. Click through for forbidden knowledge on Jumper, Incredible Hulk and Babylon A.D. February’s Jumper is a Heroes-y movie from Doug Liman (Bourne Identity). Teenager David Rice tries to flee his abusive father — and then…

Television Charliejane

The Rise and Fall of the Biggest Radio in the World

The Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico is the most sensitive and gigantic radio telescope in the world, used to do radar studies on objects in our local solar system. Despite its long history of excellent operation – it was built in the early 1960s – the National Science Foundation is threatening to cut its…

io9 Annalee Newitz

A Utopian Future for the New Orleans Riverfront in 200 Years

The brainfarm over at Sentient Developments calls our attention to the concept designs of Adam Benton, who has worked on Stargate among other things. Here you see a sumptuous illustration of a forested world dotted with space ports. When I imagine a Utopian future for New Orleans, this is what I see: a beautiful, clean…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Scifi That’s Actually Funny — On Purpose

Audiences have been laughing at science fiction since it was conceived, but usually for all the wrong reasons. It wasn’t until television became popular that producers decided to get in on the joke and start making comedies about science fiction — and those early shows gave birth to everything from films like The Three Stooges…

Movies Kevin Kelly

Luxury Chairs for Tomorrow’s Enfeebled Elites

Now you need no further proof that health care has become a luxury commodity. Herman Miller, makers of those Aeron chairs whose high price tags and cybernator look made them symbols of dot-com office opulence, has just purchased Brandrud Furniture, maker of specialized furniture for hospital patients. This is a major purchase for famed design…

io9 Annalee Newitz

We Lost Out On Giger’s Dune Twice

Did you know H.R. Giger worked on two different Dune movies that never got made? Here’s his concept art for the Palace of Harkonnen, from the first version. Alejandro Jodorowsky’s version would have been 14 hours long and starred himself and his son, plus Salvador Dali. And then Ridley Scott was attached to direct in…

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One Step Closer to a True Cloaking Device

Last year, a team at Duke announced a beta cloaking material whose special nano-properties make it “invisible” to microwaves. Today, however, researchers in Stuttgart have got something even better — a “metamaterial” that can cloak objects in the visible light spectrum. Made of gold nano-mesh, the material has a negative refraction index for visible light…

io9 Annalee Newitz

New Justice League Flick Puts Green Lantern in the Korean War

The award-winning retro-futurist graphic novel DC: The New Frontier will become a stylish movie, judging from this newly released trailer. This direct-to-DVD animated film, based on the Darwyn Cooke graphic novel, follows Green Lantern (voiced by David "Angel" Boreanaz) from the Korean War to the Kennedy administration. It’s also part of a trend toward putting…

Books & Comics Kevin Kelly

Acid-Spitting Chitinous Beasts for the Holidays

Some have expressed poorly-worded consternation that savage monsterfest Aliens vs. Predator II is coming out on Christmas. Last year’s Black Christmas also provoked outrage (especially from Christ-worshippers), but a rep from its production company Dimension Films responded blithely that gore-drenched mayem is “counter-programming to the more regular yuletide fare.” In sum, horror is a holiday…

Movies Annalee Newitz

io9 Talks To “I Am Legend” Designer David Lazan

The original concept art for I Am Legend was much bleaker and more post-apocalyptic than the movie’s final look. Production designer David Lazan talked to us about why he and director Francis Lawrence opted for a more gorgeous back-to-nature look. Our interview, plus a concept art gallery, after the jump. http://io9.com/333559/i-am-legend-is-beautiful-instead-of-scary I Am Legend concept…

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Iron Man’s Crotch: Codpiece Or Diaper?

The newest image of the Iron Man armor doesn’t reveal anything from the waist up. But the newly displayed pelvis of steel has us debating fiercely: is it a codpiece or a diaper? You tell us. Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you’re viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in your…

Movies Charliejane

Neil Gaiman’s Dimension-Hopping Freaky Tot

There’s a sneak peek of the stop-motion animated movie of Neil Gaiman’s cute-goth comic Coraline out today, and it’s delightfully freaky. Title character Coraline explores her new home and finds a portal that leads into another dimension, with bizarro versions of her mom and dad inside. Of course, she has to battle the baddies in…

io9 Kevin Kelly

The Sun Hurls Continent-Sized Blobs of Gas at Us

Newly-discovered x-ray jets literally blanket the face of the sun, launching continent-sized blobs of superhot gas outwards at 200 million miles per hour. Which is just about 5% of the speed of light, and makes us second-think the chances a spaceship like the one in Danny Boyle’s Sunshine might have of getting close to that…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Suicidal Russian Space Junk Plunges Into Earth’s Atmosphere

Sturdy, car-sized space freighter Progress 26 was launched off the International Space Station on Saturday, filled to the brim with trash — basically, all the crap (literally and figuratively) the crew had been accumulating for weeks. Progress 27, another uncrewed freighter, will be arriving with fresh food and supplies from Earth for the ISS cosmonauts.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Japanese Military Prepares for Alien Invasion

Japan’s Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba last week announced that although the Japanese Pacifist Constitution prevents the country from using military force in most situations, he wouldn’t be averse to using military might to defeat invading extraterrestrials. His comments came after a top government spokesman said he believed in aliens. [NYT]

io9 Annalee Newitz

Photo-Surrealist Favelas Metastasize in the Citiscape

Evil Brain Commands You To Watch

First Movie to Capture Events on the Scale of Femtoseconds

Top Four (Legal) Mind-Performance Enhancement Drugs

The Steel Hand Phantom Strikes In 3-D

Ultimate Spoilers For Hulk, Jumper and Babylon

The Rise and Fall of the Biggest Radio in the World

A Utopian Future for the New Orleans Riverfront in 200 Years

Scifi That’s Actually Funny — On Purpose

Luxury Chairs for Tomorrow’s Enfeebled Elites

We Lost Out On Giger’s Dune Twice

One Step Closer to a True Cloaking Device

New Justice League Flick Puts Green Lantern in the Korean War

Acid-Spitting Chitinous Beasts for the Holidays

io9 Talks To “I Am Legend” Designer David Lazan

Iron Man’s Crotch: Codpiece Or Diaper?

Neil Gaiman’s Dimension-Hopping Freaky Tot

The Sun Hurls Continent-Sized Blobs of Gas at Us

Suicidal Russian Space Junk Plunges Into Earth’s Atmosphere

Japanese Military Prepares for Alien Invasion

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