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California Cities in the Year 2000 (1961)

The March 12, 1961 Independent Star-News (Pasadena, CA) ran an article which heavily quotes Ed Dolker, deputy director of the California Department of Natural Resources. A short excerpt appears below. You can read the entire article here. “There will be 60 million people in California in the year 2000,” Dolder said. “There will be two…

Tech News Matt Novak Sep 1 '08

Siemens Oven Moves Your Roast Like a Death Star Hangar Lift

The Siemens HB 78P570 oven looks like any other oven until you notice that it has no door, which is precisely when it starts to open automatically from its bottom: The glossy black food platform slides down mechanically until it is at the same level as your kitchen top. Sounds a bit crazy, but it’s…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 1 '08

Dystopian Futures And Cowboy Aliens Invade Your Cult Cinema

Click to viewThis week, get a glimpse into a future where everybody is made the same by a collection of crazy “handicaps” from the mind of Kurt Vonnegut. Also, an adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s futuristic tales follows a young couple trying to have their own baby in a overpopulated world where the government enforces their…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 31 '08

Jumbo Airplane Hotel Allows Mile High Club Experience on the Ground

Back in 2006, Oscar Diös heard there was a dead Boeing 747-200 built in 1976 on one of the runways at Arlanda Airport, the largest international airport in Sweden, north of Stockholm. It was once owned by a Swedish company called Transjet, who used it to fly muslim pilgrims to Mecca, as well as doing…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 31 '08

Gorenje Qube Foldable Hob Is the Laptop of Kitchens

This is the Gorenje Foldable Qube prototype, a hob and hood system that can be hung on the wall of a small kitchen to save some serious space. It’s also a kitchen-to-go: “You can take it with you anywhere-just like a laptop,” said the IFA booth laeedee. You know, for those very special times in…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 31 '08

Artificial Bone That Morphs Into Tendons

Click to viewAs badass artificial limbs go, it probably doesn’t get any better than Rose McGowan’s machine gun leg from Planet Terror. But that’s probably pretty hard to walk on, so a team from the mechanical engineering department at the Georgia Institute of Technology would suggest you use their artificial bone instead. Professor Andrés García…

io9 Nivair H. Gabriel Aug 31 '08

Will Descent 2 Out-Scare The Original?

New details crawl out of the cave for The Descent: Part 2. All of the leaked plot bits have soothed my Crawler-loving soul thus far, but even though Neil Marshall gave his blessing over the the remake directed by Jon Harris, I’m still nervous. Although how can you go wrong with more Crawlers, bigger and…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 31 '08

Gorenje Fridge Is Officially Made for iPod, As Lickable as the Touch Itself

Believe it or not, this beautiful Gorenje fridge is an official Apple-licensed Made for iPod refrigerator. And believe it or not, it’s not just a speaker and a dock glued to a glossy black fridge: You can control the fridge itself using your iPod touch or iPhone using an application called iGorenj, which in fact…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 31 '08

So Much For The Summer

If it’s Labor Day, then it’s the end of summer – A summer that saw Hollywood bank on the geek vote in a way that it hadn’t done before, with a record number of SF and fantasy movies crowding the blockbuster schedule (five of the top ten movies of the season were based on comic…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 31 '08

Eureka Looks To The Future With New Roles And A Possible ARG

I admit it; I didn’t believe it at first, but it’s beginning to look like a hologram is just a hologram, and certain changes made in SciFi Channel’s Eureka recently are really going to stick. Creators of the show have been talking about the permanence of said changes over on the Eureka Unscripted blog, as…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 31 '08

LG X110 Feels Solid, Fast, Is Netbook with Capital N

I groped and used the LG X110 netbook for some time here at IFA. As Mark pointed out, this is the first netbook where “net” actually means something else: direct 3G network access without additions. The Good: The LG X110 felt solid and compact in my hands, heavier than I expected for such size. Good…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 31 '08

Why Not Let Robots Take The Strain?

Click to viewAs a non-American, the fact that the US celebrates Labor Day by taking a vacation has always been of interest and amusement to me. But why stop with just taking one day off? If there’s one thing that science fiction has taught us, it’s that technology exists to create machines that will not…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 31 '08

Meet The Children Of Today’s Box Office Favorites

Despite what you may expect, this picture isn’t from the next celebrity-voiced, multiplex-bound Disney movie. Instead, it’s your first peek behind the scenes of Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow, Marvel’s latest attempt to corrupt the future of America with their ideals of “heroism” and “doing the right thing.” The straight-to-DVD animated movie hits stores on…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 31 '08

How Darkseid Can Visit Smallville Without Embarrassing Himself

While we hope and pray that the rumor about Darkseid appearing in the next season of Smallville has no basis in truth whatsoever, the fact that the makers of the CW’s most frustrating hour of television have already made Brainiac into a schoolteacher points towards it being real with the Source’s very own flaming finger…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 31 '08

Sibling Rivalry Gets Bloody in New Repo! Clip

We’ve already seen the making of video for “Mark It Up,” one of Repo! The Genetic Opera’s whopping 57 musical tracks, but the finished product gives us a glimpse into the inner workings of organ factory GeneCo. In this tragically Anthony Stuart Head-free clip, we meet stab-happy Luigi Largo (frequent horror player Bill Moseley) and…

Movies Lauren Davis Aug 31 '08

The Future For Dr. Horrible Looks Moist

Aching for more Dr. Horrible? Don’t worry, it’s on its way – but don’t expect to see much more of the titular star any time soon. The next few installments are going to shift their focus towards such lesser lights as Moist, Fake Thomas Jefferson… and maybe even you, dear reader.Horrible co-creator Zack Whedon told…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 31 '08

Pacey Bleeds For Fringe Benefits

Apparently desperate to leave behind the days of Capeside and Dawson’s Creek behind forever, Joshua Jackson is willing to do anything to make sure that new JJ Abrams drama Fringe is a hit, pouring his blood, sweat and tears into the show. But, as he explained recently, mostly his blood.Talking to SciFi Wire, Jackson revealed…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 31 '08

iRiver Concepts Feel Straight Out of Terry Gilliam’s Brain

Apart from their Spinn 70s-retro analog goodness, iRiver had two beautiful concept products in their IFA 2008 stand which had a design that looked further into the past, as far as the beginning of the 20th century. As you can see in the video, both their Clix speaker-inspired by the shape of cathode ray tubes-and…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 31 '08

Babylon AD: Yet Another Scifi Flick About the Virgin Mary

So we already know that Babylon AD director Mathieu Kassovitz has said that his own movie is horrible, but that didn’t stop us from getting up at the crack of ass this morning and going to see a 10:20 AM show so we could bring you the scoop on this near-future actioner with Vin Diesel.…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 30 '08

Bad Movies And Foxes Have Killed Proyas’ Surfer For Good

We’ve already told you that I, Robot director Alex Proyas was denying rumors that he would be directing a Silver Surfer movie, but as he told MTV last week, it’s not just the studio involved that’s making him stay away.Proyas told fans at Comic-Con that his main reason for staying away from the Fantastic Four…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 30 '08

California Cities in the Year 2000 (1961)

Siemens Oven Moves Your Roast Like a Death Star Hangar Lift

Dystopian Futures And Cowboy Aliens Invade Your Cult Cinema

Jumbo Airplane Hotel Allows Mile High Club Experience on the Ground

Gorenje Qube Foldable Hob Is the Laptop of Kitchens

Artificial Bone That Morphs Into Tendons

Will Descent 2 Out-Scare The Original?

Gorenje Fridge Is Officially Made for iPod, As Lickable as the Touch Itself

So Much For The Summer

Eureka Looks To The Future With New Roles And A Possible ARG

LG X110 Feels Solid, Fast, Is Netbook with Capital N

Why Not Let Robots Take The Strain?

Meet The Children Of Today’s Box Office Favorites

How Darkseid Can Visit Smallville Without Embarrassing Himself

Sibling Rivalry Gets Bloody in New Repo! Clip

The Future For Dr. Horrible Looks Moist

Pacey Bleeds For Fringe Benefits

iRiver Concepts Feel Straight Out of Terry Gilliam’s Brain

Babylon AD: Yet Another Scifi Flick About the Virgin Mary

Bad Movies And Foxes Have Killed Proyas’ Surfer For Good

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