- Yesterday - June 30, 2009
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found footage
Long Before Virtuality, Another Star Trek Alum Tried To Get Edgy With The Holodeck
Melinda Snodgrass is best known for writing the Star Trek episode where Data's personhood gets put on trial. But in the mid-1990s, she created Star Command, which took Trek's holodeck much, much further. Just check out this holo-torture sequence. Edgy! More » -
super powers
Can Humans Awaken Their Bat-Senses?
We may not all have pointy ears and sharp teeth, but Spanish scientists are convinced that inside every human lurks the best bat-power: echolocation, or navigating by sound. And they're determined to show us all how to unlock it! More » -
Eureka
New Eureka Is All About Love, Baby Gadgets And Letting The Cop Direct
We got to spend some going back to Eureka, with the local sheriff, Colin Ferguson and co-creator Jamie Paglia, who talked about the new direction of the midseason. This year everyone is in love, except for Jack and Allison. More » -
Caption This
What Do You Think Is Happening In This Creature From The Black Lagoon Still?
The creators of Creature From The Black Lagoon: The Musical, launching at Universal Studios July 1, probably didn't mean this still to look quite so obscene. What do you think these people are saying? Check out the full version below. More » -
Inside Out
New Microscopic X-Ray Technology Revolutionizes Microbiology
This fish was the first lucky organism to have its cells imaged using microscopic X-ray vision. This kind of image was never possible before. But now scientists can watch as living cells transform within your body. More » -
Medical Technology
Replacement Joint Coating Brings Us One Step Closer To The Reign Of The Cybermen
Scientists in Israel have come up with a way to cover prosthetics and joint replacements with a human tissue-like coating. A new application of a 200 year old electroplating process might be the future of complication-free joint replacements. More » -
pre-apocalyptic
Korean Officials Train For Nuclear Attack On Pee Wee Herman's Boat
With North Korea reportedly moving forward with its uranium-enrichment program, South Korea is bracing itself for World War III. South Korea's Coast Guard staged a training exercise in Incheon with this somewhat cartoony "mock ship." More training-for-apocalypse photos below. More » -
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book review
The Nobody's Invisible Charms Become Slowly Evident
The Nobody, Jeff Lemire's reimagining of HG Wells' classic The Invisible Man, can seem aimless, slow and frustrating at times... but is also haunting, moving and a book that'll stay with you for a long time after reading. More » -
Lost
Lost Gets An Extra Hour To Cope With All The Endlessly Multiplying Daddy Issues
Lost's final season, airing next spring, is getting an extra hour to put to rest all of the father issues that have been brought up over five years. Both the premiere and the finale will be two hours each. -
Lake Placid 3
Lake Placid 3, Now With Baby Raptor Crocs
Giant crocodiles will never ever die, and while I've yet to see my anaconda versus giant crocodile showdown, at least we're getting Lake Placid 3, which is shooting in Bulgaria with Eureka's Sheriff Carter. More » -
Past life
Could Fox's Reincarnation Detective Show Signal The Death Of Scifi?
A pair of detectives tackle old unsolved crimes by talking to the reincarnated victims. It sounds like a totally off-kilter premise for a TV show, but Fox's Past Life actually made me question the future of genre television. Spoilers ahead. More » -
Robo geisha
Next Blood Soaked Tokyo Gore Hero Is A Geisha Robot
Noboru Iguchi, of Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police fame, is following up his phallic-faced ladies with an army of robot geishas. But don't worry, just because she's proper doesn't mean her face doesn't turn into a buzz saw. More » -
Monsters among us
Video Footage Surfaces of North Carolina Sewer Creatures
This is footage taken in the sewers under Cameron Village in Raleigh, North Carolina. Is it a disgusting new life form, or just a great special effect? Either way, I want to know more. [via YouTube] -
Transformers
Transformers 2: The Complete Film In One Minute
Haven't seen Transformers 2 yet? Here's an excellent recap of the film. For the full effect, punch yourself in the stomach once it's done. [Topless Robot] -
new comics we crave
Divas, Alien Invasions And America Reborn In This Week's Comics
After the busy-ness of the last few weeks, it's not too surprising that this week's raft of new releases hitting your local comic store is much smaller than usual. But with new Star Wars and Reborn, it's not less interesting. More » -
X-men
Indulge In The Incestuous World Of The X-Men
Missed out on the last 40+ years of X-Men comics and feel like you need a scorecard to work out just who knows, is in love with or has married, one another? You're in luck: Such a scorecard exists. More » -
Let the right one in
"Cloverfield" Director Promises He Won't Turn His "Let The Right One In" Remake Into "Twilight"
Matt Reeves, of Cloverfield fame, is still plugging away at his American adaptation of Swedish vampire film Let The Right One In. I shudder to think of what's being changed, because the original was basically flawless. More » -
avengers
Too Early for Avengers Movie Speculation?
While the screenwriter for Marvel's 2012 Avengers movie may be getting nervous about the finished product, the studio's head of marketing is suggesting that it's far too early for everyone else to be thinking about it just yet. More » -
Jennifer's Body
Megan Fox's Cheerleading Costume Shows Her Jennifer's Body Team Spirit
You gotta love a girl who can juggle high school, after-school activities and bloodthirsty revenge upon the classmates who tried to kill her. The first glimpses of Megan Fox's cheerleader attire from Jennifer's Body has surfaced. Rah rah! More » -
morning spoilers
Smoking Hot Harry Potter Pics, Plus Tons Of Dirty Eastwick And Vampire Diaries Details!
The latest batch of spoilers include yet another Spider-Man 4 villain update. And some sassy Harry Potter set pics. There's inside dirt on Eastwick and Vampire Diaries. Plus mega Shorts, Torchwood, Heroes, Lost, Smallville and Chuck spoilers! More » - Monday - June 29, 2009
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found footage
Spermula's Classy Aliens Use A Rolls Royce To Drain Men's Sexual Vitality [NSFW]
The mist creatures of the planet Spermula transform themselves into beautiful women, so they can come to Earth and drain human men of all of their sexual fluids, in the amazing movie Spermula. And it's just possibly NSFW. More » -
True Blood Recap
How Baby Vampires Pick Up Guys On True Blood
This week, we watched with big watery eyes as the baby vampire Jessica met a boy and batted her long eyelashes alluringly, at his pulsating jugular. True Blood recap, with spoilers, below. More » -
book review
io9's Hivemind Reviews The Terminator 4 Novelization
Terminator Salvation felt more like a weak music video than a movie, with a story that was hard to piece together. So it's a good thing the novelization is written by super-prolific author Alan Dean Foster, right? Spoilers ahead... More » -
Deadly decor
Carnivorous Furniture Hiding In Plain Sight
British designers James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau have designed a variety of household robots that feed on innocent pests to generate power — and to last long after their human owners die. And, they look just like furniture. More » -
space porn
The Most Efficient Particle Accelerator Known To Humanity
Chinese astronomers observed this supernova, RCW 86, in the year 185 A.D. But it's still pumping out cosmic rays, and a new image shows how supernova remnants like this one are the Milky Way's "super-efficient particle accelerators." [Chandra Observatory] -
Astronomy
New York Teenager Finds Weird, Introverted Supernova
At 14, Caroline Moore became the youngest person ever to discover a supernova. But months later, we're still figuring out how her find, dubbed SN 2008HA, can actually exist, since it defies everything we thought we knew. More » -
Rant
Keep Khan Out Of Star Trek 12
Will J.J. Abrams really make Star Trek 2: The Rehash Of Khan? Writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman told an interviewer there's "a 50/50 chance" Khan will show up in their sequel. Here's why it's a terrible idea. More » -
Battlestar Galactica
The Final Five Spill Their Secrets, If You Can Get Over Your Preconceptions
Ignore the covers that made it look more like a T&A; book than anything appropriately Battlestar Galactica-esque; the four-issue Battlestar Galactica: The Final Five offers up a complex backstory for the robots that put everything in motion. More » -
watchmen
Zack Snyder Walks You Through Each Insane Watchmen Detail
OCD detail-oriented director Zack Snyder is going to take you through his Watchmen adaptation, shot for shot. The special features on the BluRay release of Watchmen include Zack powering through just about every nuanced detail in Watchmen. See for yourself. More » -
Concept Cars
Bugatti Type 57 Atlantic Concept: A Car For French Space Aliens
The French make the most outrageous modern super car and the current winner of Le Mans. What if they came back from an exile in outer space with an updated Bugatti Atlantic? This might be what it'd look like. [Jalopnik]