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In New York and looking for a weekend exploration of meeting between man and machine? Then Last Rites Gallery's new Cyberdine show may be exactly what you're looking for. Mixing work by two wildly different artists working on similar themes, the show (which opens on Saturday) is certain to appeal to the Terminator fetishist inside each and every one of you. More images after the jump.
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New York Invaded By Art School Cyborgs
In New York and looking for a weekend exploration of meeting between man and machine? Then Last Rites Gallery's new Cyberdine show may be exactly what you're looking for. Mixing work by two wildly different artists working on similar themes, the show (which opens on Saturday) is certain to appeal to the Terminator fetishist inside each and every one of you. More images after the jump.More »
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Going Halfsies With the Best SciFi Half Breeds
Human-alien hybrids are everywhere in scifi. Whether they come from interplanetary love or mutant genes quietly sneaking into our DNA, we're all about hooking up the Human factor with anything else out there. Just ask Captain Kirk, who tried to dock with every alien woman he encountered. Check out our list below of some of the best science fiction halfsies. Hybrid vigor! More »
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Win a Copy of Appleseed: Ex Machina on DVD
We've told you all about the John Woo produced, Shinji Aramaki directed, anime version of Shirow Masamune's Appleseed: Ex Machina. We've spoken to the director and found out about plans for a possible sequel, we've attended a screening, and we've given away tickets to it as well. Now, we're offering up not one but two copies of his futuristic cyborgs-in-love story for you to take home for your viewing pleasure. What do you have to do to win? Just leave a comment on this post. Sounds simple, right? Find out more inside. More »
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Bionic Breakbeats, or The Best Robot Songs
If you're a post-human robot living in a world that's long since been discarded by humanity, you're going to want some tunes to listen to. Or at least process them through your sub-neural micronet. Eventually robots will figure out how to make their own superior robo-songs, but until then we've compiled the definitive list of the best robot songs by humans. More »
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Korean Movie Explores Human Emotions From a Cyborg Perspective
Welcome to MangoBot, a biweekly column about Asian futurism by TokyoMango blogger Lisa Katayama. If you've ever questioned whether you're really an alien or a cyborg, well, you're not alone. Young-goon, the protagonist featured in acclaimed director Park Chan-wook's latest film, I'm a Cyborg But That's OK, is sent to a mental hospital after she tries to wire herself into a machine she's building at a radio factory. More »
9:00 AM on Fri Mar 7 2008
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Kiwis Understand What Makes Bionic Woman Tick
New Zealand may be primarily known as the home of the Lord of The Rings movies to genre fans right now, but this article about NBC's Bionic Woman shows that they may also gain a reputation for cruelly accurate critics. More »
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Behind the Cybernetics with the Next Terminator Generation
Bit by bit, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is giving us secrets about Summer Glau's new model of terminatrix, not to mention the T-888 she has frequent run-ins with. Who knew that Terminators needed to sleep, or could digest food? We just thought they were unstoppable killing machines who never knew when to quit. You never saw Arnold's model wanting to regrow his skin, did you? He could care less if he was naked, or even had no skin at all, he just wanted to end you. We give you a rundown of past (and future) Terminators in our intensively-researched, now-declassified report. More »
cyborg abuse
Tragedy of the Robo-Karaoke Elvis Zombie
A terrible tragedy has befallen an abandoned Elvis karaoke android in the streets of New York City. Jeff writes in to tell us about how he rescued this shattered, Westworld-looking bot from certain destruction in a trash bin. Now he's immortalizing it on film and hopes to get it working again. More »
screamers 2
Screamers 2 will begin shooting in Toronto next month, and that news made us haul out the first film to take another look at it. While the original version of Screamers from 1995 isn't a bad film by any means, it does have a storyline that plenty of people would find pretty frakkin' familiar these days: Humans invent a sentient robot killing machine to eradicate their enemies with, and soon enough it turns on mankind and even learns how to mimic human appearance. Battlestar Galactica, anyone?
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The Unknown Movie That Battlestar Galactica Ripped Off
Screamers 2 will begin shooting in Toronto next month, and that news made us haul out the first film to take another look at it. While the original version of Screamers from 1995 isn't a bad film by any means, it does have a storyline that plenty of people would find pretty frakkin' familiar these days: Humans invent a sentient robot killing machine to eradicate their enemies with, and soon enough it turns on mankind and even learns how to mimic human appearance. Battlestar Galactica, anyone?
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bionic woman
Why are there no cool cybernetic limbs (like on the left) in the new Bionic Woman TV show? Many of us speculated that the creators thought nanobots were cooler, and regular old cyborgs were too old-school. But it turns out the answer has more to do with legalities, according to creator David Eick:
Licensing Problems Wreck Bionic Woman's Cyber-Limbs
Why are there no cool cybernetic limbs (like on the left) in the new Bionic Woman TV show? Many of us speculated that the creators thought nanobots were cooler, and regular old cyborgs were too old-school. But it turns out the answer has more to do with legalities, according to creator David Eick:Part of the challenge, says Eick, was "we only had the rights to the show's title and the character's name, but, legally, we couldn't depict mechanistic technology that involved parts being placed on the body."More »
