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R.I.P. Forrest J. Ackerman

Forrest Ackerman, creator of Famous Monsters magazine and Ray Bradbury’s former literary agent, has died at age 91. The L.A. Times has a great article about touring his Ackermansion and seeing his amazing collection of memorabilia — the fate of which is unclear — and hearing how he first fell in love with science fiction…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

X-Files Uncover the Truth Contest

You remember the tag line: The Truth Is Out There. While we don’t know squat about real aliens, we are admittedly huge X-Files fans. So huge in fact, we’re giving away a Blu-Ray copy of X-Files: I Want To Believe to a random winner who can answer all of the following True/False X-Files questions. No…

Tech News Chrissie Lamond

Find Out What Happened Next In Our Exclusive Farscape Preview

Wonder what happened to astronaut John Crichton after the Peacekeeper Wars? Boom! Studios’ new Farscape comic aims to answer all your questions, and then raise new ones. We’ve got six pages of the first issue to tease you – and a seventh exclusive page you can’t see anywhere else. Update: Gallery is now working. Written…

Television Graeme McMillan

Ultraman Figure Takes to the Skies…With the Help of Some Propellers

Fans of the early Ultraman series now have something to put on their gift list thanks to this R/C craft from Tokyo-based toy-maker Wiz. After that, it’s only a matter of constructing a crude cityscape diorama and throwing in a spray-painted Godzilla or something into the mix to live out your Japanese superhero fantasies. Although,…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Mars Science Lab Rover Mission Delayed Two Years

Sad news for the Mars Science Lab (MSL) mega-rover, big sister to the little rovers who’ve been roaming Mars for the past few years. The robot was supposed to launch next year, and start exploring Mars with a lot more scientific equipment (including a laser) than the current rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. It would have…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The GameBoy Explodes All Over this Beautiful T-Shirt

Just when I think I’m done with t-shirts, they pull me back in. And Exploded GameBoy by gamepaused is just enough to thwart my vision for a respectable wardrobe for a little longer. I haven’t disassembled a GameBoy as of late, but the deconstruction appears anatomically correct, even making room for the screw holes embedded…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Hundreds Of Tests Needed To Get Spaceship Right, Says Earth Stood Still Designer

Those giant glowing spheres that trash Manhattan in the Day The Earth Stood Still remake took painstaking work — on everything from color schemes to the way they looked reflected in people’s hazmat suit visors. We talked to production designer David Brisbin about reinventing a science fiction legend, and he explained why the new film…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

10 Gadgets For Cheap Holiday Decorating

For most of us, money is tight this year. But that doesn’t mean you can’t decorate for the holidays. Here is how to deck the halls it without breaking the bank. Trees: Christmas Tree Projector: Don’t have the cash to blow on a tree and decorations this year? No worries, there are a few clever…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Bad Science Can Lead To Good Stories

“My favorite science fiction movies generally deal in some really, really bad science. Laws of physics are regularly flouted. Aliens make no physiological sense. That’s because the directors are just using fragments of science to assemble fiction that reach down deep inside us, not to our internal database of scientific facts, but to our addiction…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

First BlackBerry Storm Firmware Update: Out Now and Later

To those of you in the audience with BlackBerry Storms, the first update is available online at Verizon Wireless. Otherwise, just wait until tonight at 9:30 p.m Pacific when the update will hit OTA. [Verizon via Crave] https://gizmodo.com/10-takes-on-the-blackberry-storm-5094371

Tech News Mark Wilson

Blockbuster to Offer 99 Cent Rentals

Blockbuster has announced that they will begin offering 99 cent DVD titles to lure customers into their stores during these tough economic times. Whatever, I’m still not setting foot in Blockbuster again. Why anyone would go into a brick-and-mortar Blockbuster these days is beyond me. I mean, $5 for a new release? Come on. With…

Tech News Sean Fallon

The Best HDTVs You Can Buy In Every Category

It’s remarkably hard to buy a TV. Yearly updates skew identifiable model numbers, so even finding reviews on the product spam is tough. Luckily, HD Guru named names of their favorite TVs available now. If you head on over to the site, they’ve broken down each major size category by size, price and technology type.…

Television Mark Wilson

At Gizmodo Gallery: Back to the Future DeLorean Is Here

Hey people! The DeLorean has arrived. From the past to the Gizmodo Gallery, straight from the 80s, like me and my pants! [Thanks to REED ANNEX, Lego for the Gizmodo sign, and thanks to our benefactor gizmine.com] Gizmodo Gallery Reed Annex 151 Orchard Street New York, NY 10002 Gizmodo Gallery Reader Meetup The reader meetup…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Day the Earth Stood Still Remake You Never Saw

Some fans have been up in arms over the upcoming remake of the classic film The Day the Earth Stood Still. But the film is itself an adaptation of Harry Bates’ short story “Farewell to the Master,” originally published in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction. In 1973, Marvel editor-in-chief Roy Thomas acquired the rights to…

Movies Lauren Davis

Army Using TiVo Tech for the Most Un-TiVo of Purposes

US troops in Japan are getting a massive server array to improve their TV. But instead of delivering what-you-want/when-you-want programming like TiVo, the servers will simply bump all shows 9 hours ahead. See any problems? Part of me is happy for the Army and Air Force troops at the Yokota Air Base in Japan. I…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Repo Man Unloads His Alien Baggage Onto Repo Chick

The sequel to Repo Man starts filming next month, according to Production Weekly. Not only that, but the sequel to the cult classic, Repo Chick, has a female star, and a bit of a serious message about the mortgage foreclosure crisis. The idea of a Repo film with a “message” makes me severely uneasy. Slashfilm…

io9 Meredith Woerner

OpeniMac Trying to Pick Up Where Psystar is Leaving Off

We all know how well things are working out for Psystar, so it is a little puzzling why an Argentinian company is choosing to push their luck by building more Mac clones. https://gizmodo.com/shady-organization-behind-psystar-apple-claims-5101968 Still, if you are the kind of person willing to drop serious cash on a shady overseas knockoff, then you will be…

Tech News Sean Fallon

$99 Apple Cellphone Inevitable, Analyst Says

The Kaufman Bros.—technology market analysts, plumber aficionados, and part-time acrobatic artists—are arguing that the $99 Apple-branded cellphone is going to happen, echoing what Charlie Wolf already said. Really. One of these days: https://gizmodo.com/iphone-could-hit-99-analyst-says-5069217 While we are not sure of exact timing, we think a $99 Apple-branded cell phone is inevitable. As we mentioned in our…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Speaker Cuckoo Clock Blasts You Out of Bed

This recently unearthed project by designer Stéphane Vigny combines a Swiss cuckoo clock and a loudspeaker to create what is pretty much the most awesome cuckoo clock ever. In fact, the only way it could be more awesome is if Vigny incorporated a deep baritone voice recording saying “CUCKOO” “CUCKOO”, as our own Jason Chen…

Tech News Sean Fallon

It’s . . . Dungeons & Dragons Dance Music?

I really couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw this music video, recommended by tipster Scott Barrett. It’s so cheesy and over-the-top that it pretty much exists in a pocket universe of its own. Bad pop! Bad hair! Fighting dragons! Latex-clad ladies with swords! Seriously, keep watching even though your eyes are screaming in pain.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

R.I.P. Forrest J. Ackerman

X-Files Uncover the Truth Contest

Find Out What Happened Next In Our Exclusive Farscape Preview

Ultraman Figure Takes to the Skies…With the Help of Some Propellers

Mars Science Lab Rover Mission Delayed Two Years

The GameBoy Explodes All Over this Beautiful T-Shirt

Hundreds Of Tests Needed To Get Spaceship Right, Says Earth Stood Still Designer

10 Gadgets For Cheap Holiday Decorating

Bad Science Can Lead To Good Stories

First BlackBerry Storm Firmware Update: Out Now and Later

Blockbuster to Offer 99 Cent Rentals

The Best HDTVs You Can Buy In Every Category

At Gizmodo Gallery: Back to the Future DeLorean Is Here

The Day the Earth Stood Still Remake You Never Saw

Army Using TiVo Tech for the Most Un-TiVo of Purposes

Repo Man Unloads His Alien Baggage Onto Repo Chick

OpeniMac Trying to Pick Up Where Psystar is Leaving Off

$99 Apple Cellphone Inevitable, Analyst Says

Speaker Cuckoo Clock Blasts You Out of Bed

It’s . . . Dungeons & Dragons Dance Music?

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