Sci-Fi

Next Week On Heroes: Claire Gets Picked Up

You can add "Are you a robot or an alien?" to your list of can’t-miss pick-up lines, judging from this preview clip of Monday’s Heroes. The dorky flying boy tossed out some "negs," just like on The Pickup Artist, and now he’s already making nookie with Claire. And just watch how West kino-escalates. It’s pretty…

Television Charliejane Oct 5

Blair Witch Meets Event Horizon?

The brain-cracking genre mashups that will define the future of science fiction aren’t necessarily coming out of Hollywood. Instead, they’re hatching in Richmond, Virginia, judging from this just-posted casting call: Logline: The Blair Witch meets Event Horizon. Tag Line: Finite Space, Infinite Power A director’s equipment-clad crew of nonconformist semi-pros discover a film camera deserted…

Movies Charliejane Oct 4

Who Speaks For Clones?

While all the attention given to human cloning has focused almost solely on questions of morality and bioethics – or on religion and the nature of government power – little energy has gone into questioning the literary impact a human clone might someday have. Yet it’s an interesting question: Will clones someday write novels? While…

Books & Comics Geoffm Oct 1

Steampunkish Stormtrooper, Boba Fett and Alien Look Almost Scarier Than the Originals

Just what you want to see when you’re doing the shopping at the Mall of the Emirates in Dubai &mdash three badass Steampunk nasties in the Al Jabber art gallery. Gallery below. Er, shouldn’t that be the Al Jabba gallery? [Hombre Lobo via Boing Boing]

Movies AddyDugdale Sep 5

Buck Rogers Gun, Sold on Ebay

A pistol from the late ’70s TV show Buck Rogers just fetched $2,750 on eBay. Twelve inches in length, the gun features a microswitch to light up the clear tip. My initial impression: Damn, this thing is cheap-looking. And then I remembered a trip to the Star Trek museum in Vegas, and how cheap phasers…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Aug 6

DARPA Unclassifies Plans for Laser-Guided Bullet

DARPA’s Budget Item Justification Sheet contains goodies that seem right out of the pages of science fiction, like laser-guided bullets. The goal appears to be to “enable low-cost, high performance guided projectiles” that take advantage of “guidance and targeting systems.” While the idea of a laser-guided bullet conjures images of soldiers marching across fields, spraying…

Tech News Kevinhall2 Jul 2

Martin Carujo’s Sci-Fi Recycled Lamps

You crazy people love lamps, whether they’re the coolest lamps ever by Frank Buchwald, or these pretty darn cool recycled lamps by Martin Carujo. Martin creates each lamp individually from junk he finds, and gives them the “work of art” touch that puts them over and above standard cool lamps you buy at the store.…

Gadgets Jason Chen Apr 28

Happy Birthday SCI FI Tech

Congrats to our friends at SCI FI Tech for making it past their first, which is the most difficult, year. To celebrate, they’re offering up the first two seasons of the SCI FI hit Battlestar Galactica to one lucky reader. All you have to do is make a haiku praising your favorite gadget and send…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jan 25

Christie’s Auctioning Off 40 Years of Star Trek Memorabilia

CBS Paramount cleaned out the Star Trek garage and is putting its finds up for sale at Christie’s New York this October, putting 4,000 lots of over 1,000 items on the block in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the Star Trek original series tv show. Captain Kirk’s leisure suit (photo above—and no, we don’t…

Gadgets Gizmodo.com May 19

K-9 Makes A Comeback

Some of us here at Gizmodo have never had much love for AIBO, if only because we watched a lot of Dr Who growing up and no robot dog of our present could ever hope to compare with K-9. Sony, please feel free to discuss this with us if you ever trot out an AIBO…

Television Gizmodo.com Apr 27

Next Week On Heroes: Claire Gets Picked Up

Blair Witch Meets Event Horizon?

Who Speaks For Clones?

Steampunkish Stormtrooper, Boba Fett and Alien Look Almost Scarier Than the Originals

Buck Rogers Gun, Sold on Ebay

DARPA Unclassifies Plans for Laser-Guided Bullet

Martin Carujo’s Sci-Fi Recycled Lamps

Happy Birthday SCI FI Tech

Christie’s Auctioning Off 40 Years of Star Trek Memorabilia

K-9 Makes A Comeback

We Just Saw a Full Scene From ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’

Sam Altman’s Home Allegedly Attacked for a Second Time

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OpenAI Exec Reveals New Strategy in Leaked Memo: Attack Anthropic

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Peter Capaldi’s Biggest ‘Doctor Who’ Regret Was That He Couldn’t Be a Little Bit Miserable

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