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While some science fiction fans like to dress as their favorite character, some handy fans prefer to dress up their cars as incredibly detailed replicas of movie machines. We take a look at the futuristic vehicles on the road today. More »
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You may think that your GPS has a superior attitude now, but imagine if you could see its expression as you take a wrong turn for the seventh time. A new "driving companion" adds a little personality to your directions. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5393880&view=rss&microfeed=true I now firmly believe that once the human race has imploded on itself with war and hate there will be two things left standing after the nuclear fallout: cockroaches and KITT. Proving that it will never die no matter how terrible the writing is, Knight Rider continues this season's race. E News hears that NBC has requested 9 more episodes of Knight Rider rounding out for one full season of a poorly crafted lisping car and one constantly shirtless Mike Tracer. When this world ends I'm sitting inside KITT. [Eonline] More »
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This week, Knight Rider proved all its critics wrong with a complex look into post-traumatic syndrome for war veterans and the way it can lead them into ever more dangerous situations in search of the adrenaline rush that combat provided, compellingly written and sensitively performed by actors easily transcending their soap operatic roots. No, only joking; really, they just channeled all kinds of gender stereotypes and mixed it with ridiculous action sequences for another weirdly compelling hour of what may be the worst hour on television. More »
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All of the cast for the new Knight Rider remake was ironically stuck in traffic and showed up late to the San Diego Comic Con panel (insert lame they should have driven KITT joke here). But more exciting than that is the assortment of clips from Knight Rider that was played, showing KITT transforming from a pickup to a mustang, boobs, hack acting, more boobs and giving us all a chance to hear Val Kilmer mumble and lisp his way through doing KITT's voice. How does Michael Knight understand a thing his car says? Click through for panel pictures, more details from the Knight Rider clip, and cast plot spoilers (the Iraq war makes Knight Rider super serious) and wheher or not the Hoff will be back. More »
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An original KITT from Knight Rider has gone up for sale on Ebay today. Now is your chance to live a dream of owning the worlds first smart car so you can drive cross-country and fight crime for FLAG. Click through to see all angles of this glorious 80s car including high tech blinking and computer interiors that should fill your Knight Rider quota until the show's revival in September. Should you decide to purchase KITT, please be nicer to him than that attention-whore Hasselhoff, who always blamed KITT for showboating him. More »
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NBC aired its Knight Rider TV movie last night. It was a two-hour long Ford commercial disguised as entertainment, padded with lesbians, threesomes, bad acting, questionable technology, and meta-commercials. Whether it was nostalgia beckoning viewers to watch, or leftover Transformers lust, this TV "event" about an artificially intelligent car was Sunday night's biggest draw. Was it worth it? Find out in our spoiler-laden recap inside. More »
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This weekend pits the teleporting deadpannisms of Hayden Christensen in the movie Jumper vs. Val Kilmer's monotone as KITT in Sunday's Knight Rider TV movie. So which one will be less sucky? We've already weighed in with our Jumper review, and we've given you a look at some clips from Knight Rider. Will you be watching both, one or the other, or neither? Sound off in the poll below. More »
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Things we learned from these newly released Knight Rider clips: The car really does look cool, with high-tech displays that don't do much except look pretty. Mike Knight (nee Tracer) can flail around in a car on autopilot, yet still wear one of those douchebag bluetooth headsets. You can see some of the new KITT's fancy paraphernalia in the clip above, which features what can only be described as an A.I. growl at the end. Two more KITT videos after the jump. More »
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Good morning and welcome to our obsessive roundup of everything spoilery in science fiction. There's a new promo clip for Knight Rider that shows way more of the show's action. And we ask an important question about Ricky Gervais' new movie. Also, there are some new tidbits about Smallville, and a look at the guy from 90210 as he'll look on Sarah Connor. More »
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The old K.I.T.T. is apparently dead in the new Knight Rider television movie. He'll be seen in glimpses by keen-eyed viewers, and referred to by the characters, but his motherboard is buried in the guts of the new K.I.T.T. That means he's inside an entirely new body, which serves as a sort of morbid living, driving coffin for the old William Daniels-voiced car. However, he's been enhanced, and he's even gone green in this quasi-reincarnation. More »
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Flying cars are dime-a-dozen in science fiction. But they don't all look as cool as Harrison Ford's cop car does in Sid Mead's original concept art. And some of them have cool extras, like voice-controlled color or a built-in ATM . But what you really want to know is, what's the fastest super-car in scifi? We rank them by speed (with a gallery) below. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=339319&view=rss&microfeed=true Here's a sneak peek at February's upcoming Knight Rider TV movie, all ready to crush your dreams. Why drape that car in a black cloth when it's already been seen all over the interwebs after NBC officially unveiled it at an event they hosted? This is a show about a car, not about a guy who fights bad guys and just happens to use a car, so why not show the goods? The same goods that we've, er... already officially seen? More »
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A new Dune movie will be "big big big," says director Peter Berg (The Kingdom.) The David Lynch version was dandy, but "that interpretation has left the door wide open for a remake," Berg says. If it wasn't for the writers' strike, he'd be working on his version of the Frank Herbert mega-novel right now. [MTV Movies Blog]. Spoilers for Sarah Michelle Gellar's next project, Cloverfield, and AVP-R after the jump. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=337135&view=rss&microfeed=true Life imitates Knight Rider. Australian police are testing a new super-car that can recognize 5000 license plates in a day, respond to voice commands and calculate whether other cars are speeding. Best of all, the ESCV can fire a small dart with a GPS locator into other vehicles, so the cops can locate them later without a chase. [Courier-Mail] More »
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More details on the Knight Rider TV movie have leaked out. The TV movie revolves around a secret organization that sounds exactly like the Berkut Group from Bionic Woman. The Knight Foundation (named after Michael Knight, David Hasselhoff's character on the original show) has a super vague mission: correcting the mistakes of covert military contractors. To this end, they — you guessed it — create a super-smart car. Okay, so you knew this was probably going to suck. The only question is, why will it suck? And how could it have sucked less? More »
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Hollywood is deep into pre-production on a new Knight Rider series, due to the success of theTransformers movie. This 1980s show about sentient supercar K.I.T.T. who was equipped with artificial intelligence and fought "those outside the law" alongside his driver Michael Knight enjoyed a brief period of popularity in the 1980s, but there has been overwhelming evidence stacking up that proves we don't need a sequel or a remake. Let's take a look at the growing list of reasons not to make this show: More »
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