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Last night, companies across America dumped millions of dollars into crafting the world's most perfect commercial. What did their millions dream up? Star Wars gags, Seinfeld, and the apocalypse. Here are the best (and the worst) scifi commercials from the Super Bowl.

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It's long been established that the mighty brain is nothing but a mound of putty. We don't see what we think we do, we don't remember what we think we do, and we don't like what we think we do. If we did, advertisers would be out of business. As it is, they're literally putting false thoughts inside our heads. More »
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Remember when underoos were cool? These dancing kids will put a stop to that notion. Watch in horror as movie merchandising goes too far. Starring the stripper from Under Siege! More »
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Miss the best part of last night's Super Bowl — the commercials? Don't worry: We collected the best of the science fiction shout-outs, fantasy freak-outs and mad-science moments right here. So was this year's collection of 30 second spots a success? Or did it leave you yearning for the crotch-shot ads of yesteryear? More »
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Watch the brand new trailer for Battle LA that just screened at the Super Bowl, and get your first taste of the invading mecha army in action. Also, we'll be sure to update with more Super Bowl trailer reveals as they go live tonight. More »
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Baby Darth Vader, a dickweed Bumblebee — and Doritos that can bring a fish back from the dead. This year's selection of Superbowl commercials is already starting to charm its way into our wallets. And with a $3 million price tag for each Superbowl spot, it's no wonder that many of the commercials set to release on Sunday are leaking out early. Watch the best of the ads right now! More »
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All those chocolate commercials with women lounging in a bath and luxuriantly eating chocolate may get a different spin. Turns out compounds in cacao could be a powerful treatment for the sexually-transmitted disease HPV. More »
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Yes this is a real commercial for a real thing that exists: a blanket that protects you from your partners bed farts, with activated carbon fabric. It's called the The Better Marriage Blanket. Yeesh. [via Andrew Sullivan] More »
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Repo Men is a smorgasbord of absurdist futurism references, according to director Miguel Sapochnik. He showed us which science fiction classics he drew on, from Brazil to Clockwork Orange. But no, Repo! The Genetic Opera isn't on the list. More »
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The best part of the Superbowl are the commercials, so did last nights super expensive, robot-heavy glamor ads impress? Watch the Lost cameos, monster benders, and sneak first look at the rides on Harry Potter's theme park. More »
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Universal has created a web page for Union, the company that sells robotic organs to those in need — until they default on their payments, that is. Check out the goods and the highly sexualized commercials of our near future. More »
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If Stargate SG-1 is to be believed, the US Air Force's Space Command hides fantastical technologies and runs space-bound missions. A new ad campaign paints the US Air Force as straight out of science fiction — without the aliens. More »
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The more realistic a CG human is, the creepier they become. There's nothing spookier than a half-computer half-child CG face on the big screen. We've ranked all the worst CG humans, in order of creepiness. More »
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Good God, we are getting old. Lee Majors is doing Bionic Hearing Aid commercials. Nothing is more depressing than listening to our favorite cyborg talk about "frustrating tiny batteries." [via David Indy] More »
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M&Ms have been rampaging through our greatest entertainment worlds for years now, with hideous Star Wars and Oz ads. But seeing Michael Bay's face on an M&M and Optimus Prime shilling peanut-butter-and-jelly M&Ms has actually scarred us for life. More »
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This ad for Australian beer Carlton Natural Blonde asks you to "taste the future." If the Australian future includes golden unitards, Geordi glasses, robot handshakes and pogo feet, then I'm drinking this beer. More »
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Hilarious ads have gone up in New Zealand, for Sky TV's Alien Versus Predator movie night. See the implacable extraterrestrial foes square off, at swing ball, chess and pool. More »
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What kind of self-respecting human would ever sell something so similar to the deadly zombie creating T-Virus? Doesn't Avon have a undead consultant on retainer? Or are they secretly working for Umbrella Corporation? More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5170303&view=rss&microfeed=true Forget the 3D commercials — this Superbowl Sunday, our eyes will be peeled for the one-second Miller High Life commercials. That's right Miller only bought 4 seconds of airtime this Sunday, but the beermaker believes that it's just enough time to make the right mental impact on the audience. Finally, Max Headroom's high-speed advertising nightmare has come true! Hopefully the high-intensity moments won't actually cause your brain to overload and explode. [Winston-Salem Journal] More »
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The US premiere of Dead Snow (Død Snø) is right around the corner at Sundance, but it's already premiered in Norway, and our io9 correspondent Bjørn was there. More »
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Sometimes, we have to stop and applaud the truly innovative directors whose work only shows up for a few brief seconds crammed on the TV. Vesa Manninen's collection is worth stopping to see the commercials. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5128980&view=rss&microfeed=true The commercials for last year's Superbowl were terrible. Thank god, we've got the CG awesomeness of Dreamworks' Monsters Versus Aliens to bring back some much-needed pizazz to the big game. On February 1st, keep your eyes peeled for the first ever Superbowl 3D commercial. thanks to the Monster Action squad. In order to get said glasses I believe you have to go to the Pepsi or SOBE stand in any U.S. store. I'm very excited, now that I finally know which team I'll be rooting for this year. More »
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Last week we asked you which science we should "punk" next because cyberpunk is, well, not very hardcore any more. And here's proof. We've rounded up six commercials saturated in cyberpunk imagery, including ones for a Hummer SUV, Phillips razors, Mountain Dew, a dairy company, and of course the PS2. I think it's safe to say that once SUV manifacturers and Mountain Dew are using cyber imagery in their ads, it's time to punk something else. Here you can see the ad for the SUV Hummer: The blur of techno-gear in a stark metal landscape isn't just cyberpunk, but it's also a little bit electronica — for the geriatric raver console cowboy in you. Five more commercials below make it even more obvious that cyber hasn't ever been less punk. More »
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