io9
Today's Best Deals: Smart Alarm Clock, Teva Sandals, USB Power Outlets, and More
The smartest alarm clock you’ve ever seen, Teva sandals, and USB power receptacles lead off Friday’s best deals.
Categories: SF Topics
These Flowers Hold Clues to Spreading Life Beyond Earth
It feels like we’re constantly searching for a friend out there in the cosmos, only to be repeatedly disappointed. But what if, in our quest to discover life beyond Earth, we’ve overlooking a more important question? What if the question we should really be asking is, how do we ensure life spreads beyond Earth?
Categories: SF Topics
The First Inhumans Teaser Hints at the Epic War Brewing Inside the Royal Family
There are scant few plot details describing just what sort of adventure Marvel’s Inhumans will get into in their upcoming live-action series. But this first trailer for the Inhumans—voiceover only, alas—suggests that Maximus won’t be hiding his disdain for his brother and king Black Bolt’s approach to politics.
Categories: SF Topics
Something Totally Crazy Could Happen to Bumblebee in Transformers: The Last Knight
The BBC is waging a new War of the Worlds. Get a bizarre look at a Guardian of the Galaxy on the set of Avengers: Infinity War. Aquaman teases some flashbacks ahead for Arthur Curry. Plus, teasing new details for the Han Solo movie, and what’s to come on Arrow, Flash, iZombie, and Supergirl. To me, my Spoilers!
Categories: SF Topics
This Warhammer 40,000 Animated Short Series Is Unbelievably Gorgeous
Not only is this fan-made short series really well edited and put together, it’s got an art style quite unlike anything you’ve seen before from the grim dark future of Warhammer 40,000's setting.
Categories: SF Topics
The Terminator 2 3D Trailer Has Something Much Cooler Going for It Than 3D
Today, a new trailer was released to promote the fact that James Cameron’s masterpiece Terminator 2: Judgment Day is getting a 3D re-release this summer. But the 3D is not the most exciting part.
Categories: SF Topics
What the Hell Is Marvel's Inhumans Doing About Medusa's Wig Situation?
Today, we got our first look at the royal family of Marvel’s upcoming Inhumans TV series. We saw Black Bolt grimacing without his mask, Maximus looking suspiciously like Ramsay Bolton, and of course, we saw Queen Medusa. Wearing what looks like a Party City wig. Marvel, what the fuck is going on?
Categories: SF Topics
New Twin Peaks Teaser Gives Us Our First Real Glimpse of Footage From the Show
Before you get too excited, this new Twin Peaks teaser is 30 seconds of enigmatic footage and 30 seconds reminding you to subscribe to Showtime ahead of the show’s May 21 debut. Still, considering we’ve seen barely anything from the cult hit’s long-awaited return, it’s still HUGE.
Categories: SF Topics
Adorable New Tarsiers Look Like Stoned Yoda
Happy Star Wars Day, everyone! What better way to celebrate than by ooh-ing and aww-ing over two newly-discovered species of tarsier that look exactly like Yoda if he were extremely high?
Categories: SF Topics
HBO and George R.R. Martin Are Developing Four Game of Thrones Spinoffs
HBO is preparing for the eventual end of Game of Thrones by developing not one, not two, not three, but four spinoffs set in that world.
Categories: SF Topics
So What Actually Survived the Destruction of the Ultimate Marvel Universe?
It’s been almost two years since Marvel bid farewell to the Ultimate comics universe it began in 2000—smashing it right into its “main” universe to kick off Secret Wars with a multiversal bang. But in the past new years of the “All-New, All-Different” universe, a few elements of Ultimate Marvel have lived on.
Categories: SF Topics
Black Star Wars Characters, Ranked
If you are a popular athlete, have been attractive for most of your life or had a girlfriend in high school, then you probably don’t know that May 4 is Star Wars Day. Star Wars is the seminal piece of work in the nerd universe, and single-handedly created the serial Hollywood science fiction blockbuster.
Categories: SF Topics
'Why Is There Only One Wonder Woman?'
Greetings, my little priority envelopes. I apologize for the spottiness of “Postal Apocalypse” recently, but rest assured I had very good reasons that I’m absolutely not going to tell you about. This week: Whether superheroes truly create their villains, the reason Jurassic World’s dinosaurs didn’t and won’t have…
Categories: SF Topics
Rian Johnson Asked for a Small, Crucial Change to The Force Awakens
When Rey leaves Leia and the Resistance to go find Luke Skywalker, she brings two friends with her: Chewbacca and R2-D2. However, that wasn’t originally the case.
Categories: SF Topics
What Comics Do You Think Should Have Been Nominated for the Eisner Awards?
The nominees for this year’s Eisner awards have been announced and, the contenders represent some of the best writing and illustration in the comics industry. But, as is always the case, there are countless amazing books that didn’t receive a nod.
Categories: SF Topics
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Will Open in the US on April 22, 2018
We knew this play was coming, but now we have an official opening date.
Categories: SF Topics
Dear Handmaid's Tale: I Can't Believe There's No Butter
I have a few beefs with Hulu’s adaptation of the notable novel that has set many a school girl on a path to feminism and rejection of fuckbois. There’s obviously my disappointment with Serena Joy’s transformation from spackled mess of a Tammy Faye icon to coifed Ivanka Trump twin (mainly because I want to see Yvonne…
Categories: SF Topics
Earn Your Wings With This $38 Camera-Equipped Drone, Today Only
If you’ve caught drone fever, but don’t have hundreds of dollars to spend on a DJI Phantom, Amazon will sell you a basic camera-equipped quadcopter today for just $38.
Categories: SF Topics
The Royal Family Unites in the First Look at Marvel's Inhumans TV Show
We’ve seen the casting news, we’ve seen the set pictures—we’ve even seen the poster. But now it’s time to get our first look at the stars of Marvel’s long-in-the-works adaptation of Inhumans. And... well, you can see for yourself.
Categories: SF Topics