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Sunglasses maker Oakley wants to improve your 3D-viewing experience with their limited edition Tron glasses. They're designed to eliminate the visual "crosstalk" during 3D viewing, but at $150, you better hope James Cameron keeps making movies. [OhGizmo! — thanks cljohnston108] More »
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Felicisalutes, citizens! While you're out crisping in the solar wastes, playing Beach Bunker Bingo, and writing angry letters to the SyFy network for dissing Rod Serling, we here at io9 will be paying tribute to our undying robot president masters. More »
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Given how much we both love all things sexy and nerdy, well, Hustler's second "Star Trek" porn just seemed like a perfect opportunity for Fleshbot and io9 to team up for a joint review. NSFW pics below! More »
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Making a special Monday appearance, it's time to journey back down to io9's Observation Deck to find out what questions are being asked, what Doctors are being dissed, and read the best two word summation of this season's Lost yet. More »
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This week your devoted io9 team will be joined by guest Gary Susman, who will be writing about pop culture and science fiction entertainment. More »
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It's a battle for the meaning of SciFi - No, wait; I don't want to piss off Harlan Ellison and J. Michael Straczynski, I mean "science fiction" - and it's all Carl Zimmer's fault! How much science do you want with your fiction? That was the question on your lips earlier this week - and the answer may involve Mary Shelley, 17th century fiction, and Moff's sad life. You've been warned. More »
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Too busy trying to build your own science fiction franchise from scratch? Don't worry, we've compiled a list of the best stories of the week, just for you. Highlights this week include great geeky causes to give to this holiday, a new kronk burger (extra rare), an exclusive look behind the scenes at the original The Day The Earth Stood Still, and the complete gift guide for every type of fan. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5103149&view=rss&microfeed=true For the Batfans amongst the audience, we've updated this morning's Dark Knight Blu-Ray post with the release date, details and packaging of the movie's home theater debut. Don't say that we're not good to you. More »
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Between the giant banners advertising the D-9 alternate reality game (ARG) with anti-alien slogans, beyond the Dharma Initiative recruitment booth, there was a little stack of postcards at Comic-Con that read "You are being deceived — www.youarebeingdeceived.com." It was the calling card for an ARG that nobody saw. How do I know? Because io9 built the You Are Being Deceived ARG, complete with a phone number you can call and two mysterious linked URLs, as an experiment in marketing and mass deception. What happens when you try to deceive people but your lies are drowned out by better-funded lies? Allow me to recount our strange tale. More »
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We rocked the io9 panel at Comic-Con yesterday, which was devoted to a discussion of science fiction that could change your life. Joining io9 editors Annalee Newitz (hi that's me), Charlie Jane Anders, and Graeme McMillan were Austin "Soon I Will Be Invincible" Grossman, and Patrick "SciFi Wire" Lee. We all talked about life-changing science fiction, as well as world-changing scifi. Plus there were some confessions involving Scotland, Star Trek, and wanting to have sex with aliens. Here are a few highlights, as well as some picks for great scifi to transform your world. More »
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Too busy prepping your zombie for reality TV auditions all week? Don't worry — we've created a collection of the week's best stories for your pleasure. More »
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Stuck trying to find your way back to the island all week? Don't worry we've composed a collection of the weeks best stories for your pleasure. More »
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At random intervals, an event called Nerd Salon happens in San Francisco. People meet at a bar, drink, play with robots, and have a chance to solve a puzzle to win something cool (usually alcohol). It's organized by yours truly and Jennifer Granick, a kickass lawyer (and serious comic book geek) from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. A new installment of Nerd Salon is happening next week, just in time for all the web nerds in town for O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Expo, and of course io9 readers are cordially invited. Come out Wed., April 23, 6-9 PM at the Makeout Room in San Francisco. Get drunk and play with bots. And talk about aliens. Or zombies. Whatever. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=381213&view=rss&microfeed=true Yes, it's time for our every-few-months psychographic, demographic, non-pornographic survey. As ever, we use this survey find out more about you so that our nice advertising department at Gawker Media can sell more ads in those wee sidebars, and thence allow io9 to continue thriving as the commercially-sponsored free thing that it is. In addition, those nice advertising people are sweetening the pot by offering you a chance to win a $300 Amex gift card if you fill out the survey (winners will be picked at random by evil robots, and some contest rules apply). OK, so fill out the survey already. It will only take about ten minutes. More »
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If you're going to be in Austin for the South by Southwest Interactive Festival, please come by to see io9's Annalee Newitz (that's me!) talk about the future of social revolution with Lifehacker's Gina Trapani, MetaFilter's Jessamyn West, and Linden Labs' Jeska Dzwigalski. The panel is Saturday from 5-6 PM, and it's called "Social Network Coups: The Users Are Revolting!" We'll basically be talking about tomorrow's social protests and revolutions, which will take place on social networks like (for instance) blogs or Digg. It should be a good time. Also, on Sunday night, Gawker Media (io9's parent company) is throwing a party for several Gawker blogs, including io9, Lifehacker, Fleshbot, and Valleywag. 9 - 11 PM at The Side Bar. See you in Austin! More »
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Join us tonight from 8-11 at San Francisco's 111 Minna for some beers. io9 is co-sponsoring a benefit for free speech crusaders Comic Book Legal Defense Fund at WonderCon. Mingle with cool comic book creators and meet intrepid io9 editors/writers Annalee Newitz, Charlie Jane Anders, Kevin Kelly, Graeme McMillan, and (hopefully) Lynn Peril too! More »
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io9 is a sponsor of this awesome event in San Francisco on Saturday night, benefiting the free speech crusaders at Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Hope to see you there! It's from 8-11 at 111 Minna. 10 bucks at the door goes to CBLDF. More »
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This week, we did some strange things, like count how many science fiction stories have appeared in The New Yorker over the past few decades (surprise: Tina Brown's era saw the most scifi). You'll discover that the venerable magazine has never published William Gibson, though it did publish two parodies of his work. We listed the best swear words from scifi pop culture, told you about five Bollywood scifi movies you should know, enumerated the five ways 9/11 changed science fiction (with over a dozen examples), speculated about how the Justice League of America movie could be saved. Then we shocked you by claiming that Greatest American Hero might become a movie. More »
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We thought long and hard about our spoiler policy before unveiling it last Monday. And in the week that followed, we've been remarkably well-behaved, despite one picture that people mistakenly thought was representational. You can now peruse our front page with no fear that you'll learn anything about upcoming storylines. (I almost said "no fear that you'll learn anything," period.) More »
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Jumper won't be in theaters for three weeks, but you can do the viral marketing dance and comb through its website for clues about the movie. In fact, if you hit the "jump" button and take yourself to Tokyo, you might spot a reference to a certain scifi blog in the background, right next to a strutting Samuel L. Jackson. More »
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There's no doubt that io9 needed a spoiler policy. So, we surveyed over 1000 readers about their opinions. Then people debated it in comments, and meanwhile offline I was arguing with Charlie about it. Although Charlie writes the "morning spoiler" roundup, she is very strict in her no-spoiler-without-warning policy. I am a bit more lax. In last week's vote about io9's spoiler policy, I was one of the pathetic 4.3 percent who voted for spoilers anywhere on the page, without warning. Now I recognize that I am a freakish outcast among nerds, and that io9's spoiler policy needs to be a bit less radical than my own point of view. Without further ado, here is io9's current spoiler policy - by popular demand. More »
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We're ready to come clean about the fact that we went a little Cloverfield-crazy last week. We explained that the movie is about 9/11 as much as it is about monsters; and then we talked to Cloverfield director Matt Reeves about Gojira and the strange whispers at the end of his movie. We also gave you a definitive list of the ten best New York monsters (OK, one is from New Jersey), and showed you a clip from North Korea's greatest monster movie. More »
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Spoilers are a weirdly divisive issue among science fiction fans. Some of us love to know the endings to movies, books, and TV shows before we dive into them; others want to know absolutely nothing before plunging into a story. We've had a few grumpy emails from io9 readers who aren't happy with how we've displayed spoilers in posts. We're not going to stop posting spoilers, but we're willing to warn you first so you can remain pure. Now you can vote on the best way for io9 to handle spoilers. More »
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On io9 last week, we explained the five marks of Clinton-Era science fiction, identified five potential alternate histories of New York City that nobody has written a scifi novel about yet, gave you a NSFW peek at the greatest scifi porn of all time, debated which are the best zombies of science fiction, and told you to go out and read a new English translation of Osamu Tezuka's manga Apollo right now. More »
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When io9 launched last week (happy one week anniversary, everybody!) many remarked about how gorgeous our logo is. Now you can meet the woman behind that logo. She's Eliza Gauger: artist, comic book creator, blogger, videogame geek, and monster-lover. We've got an exclusive interview with the three-headed lady herself, plus a gallery of her dreamy crawlies to make your morning just a little bit more surreal. More »
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io9 came to life this past Wednesday on some nanoflop crystal computers in a Martian science outpost. On our first day, we told you what an io9 is and brazenly posted a manifesto called "Addicted to the Future." More »
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I'm Annalee Newitz, editor of io9, and I'll be your pilot on this ride across time and space and your imagination and all that crap. The first time I saw Star Wars I got so excited that I threw up. I learned about sex from reading John Varley novels about creatures with three sets of genitals living inside a giant cyborg orbiting Saturn. When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters. When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements. When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm. I love Octavia Butler, Ken MacLeod, David Cronenberg, Ursula Le Guin, Mike Mignola, Joss Whedon, and watching things explode. And now I have a Scooby Gang. More »
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Earth is full of people who want to sell you cheap ways of seeing the future. They tell you tomorrow will be more of the same, with shinier toys. Or that work as we know it is about to end. io9 is the visionary watchdog who calls those charlatans on their shit. We're going to show you a new world that's shockingly different from what you're used to. And it's not always going to be a shiny happy place. More »
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io9s were marketed as cheap time machines in the 2070s. They were actually just low-grade input/output devices for the brain that tuned tachyon waves and gave users vivid images of possible futures. The things were so addictive, and drove so many people insane, that io9s were eventually outlawed. Today the word is just slang. io9ers are the early implanters who obsessively upgrade themselves with beta tech. People who tweak out on buggy brainware are sometimes said to have "gone io9." Science fiction writer Ken MacLeod has another term for io9ers. He calls them rapture fuckers. More »
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There are a zillion near-future scifi flicks that have hackers in them doing highly technical things like "hacking the planet" or "bringing down the whole system." When filmmakers don't want to sound like total idiots, however, they call a real hacker to consult — a hacker like Fyodor, whose real-life software tool "nmap" was used by uber-hacker Trinity in The Matrix and shows up in a Bourne Identity cameo. Fyodor also consulted on the hacking scenes in Live Free or Die Hard (he's not convinced his input made the movie any more realistic). Though he thinks The Matrix is the best scifi hacking movie out there, Fyodor has a surprising pick for "good geek porn" in a hacker movie. More »
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