Captain Hammer's Duds:

Show your love for Joss Whedon's latest gift to the world, Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog. Let the hammer in your pants jokes fly, gloves not included.

Marty McFly's Nikes:

Nike has a limited release of Hyperdunk from Back To The Future II. Be warned, wearing these amazing kicks may get you mugged by yours truly.

Scientific Explanations For Fantasy:

Don't let the scifi fantasy war get your spidey undies in a knot this year. When you're in the heaps of battle over what's magic and what's science, simply point to your chest, argument avoided.

Lightsaber iphone Application:

Carrying around an actual lightsaber is so last year thanks to the new iphone application, you can bring your camera, calendar phone and Star Wars weapon of choice to con. Extra io9 love for the first person to make the garage iphone saber youtube.

Frakkin Toaster:

Can't afford the 60 bones for the actual BSG toaster, don't fret here's an equally adorable Toaster T-shirt.

No More LaBeouf:

Take a stand against the infestation of Mr. LaBeouf in every single magazine and movie out there. Can we get a break from the stuttering "I yell No a lot" boy for at least one year please.

All The Robots That Matter:

Display your love for scifi robots in a artistic matter across your chest. I particularly like the Matrix bots.

Avatar Aliens:

If you get your hands on this T-shirt then I tip my hat to you sir because either you're incredibly crafty, worked on James Cameron's Avatar movie or Sam Worthington. But you'll be incredibly above the T-shirt curve.

And finally instead of sporting the usual Watchmen smiley face I encourage you all to vote for the Watches of the Watchmen T-shirt on threadless, it isn't in print yet but really should be.

Filoni explained that since they made the clones more individual, the audience should then care about them more and care about what happens to the clones on the battlefield. I see their logic, but I'm still probably going to have a difficult time distinguishing between any of them no matter how fancy their helmets are.

Physique: At 160 cm (approximately 5’3”) Manekin Robotto stands a good head below the recommended 5’8” for female models. She’s also surprisingly flat-chested and, let’s face it, a bit on the hippy side. But she wouldn’t be the first model in the industry to require implants and a little cosmetic soldering.

Weight: The robot model tips the scales at just over 66 pounds and rates a body mass index of 11.7, a number low enough to make human catwalkers vomit with envy. Unfortunately, it might also bar her from the runway. Following the malnutrition deaths of three models last year, European show organizers have required that models have a BMI of at least 18 to walk.

Cost: Despite the accompanying glitz and glamour, models in the US earn, on average, a mere $10.83 an hour. But even that paltry amount can’t compare with Manekin Robotto’s low, low price of $940. And that’s just the beginning of the savings. Robots don’t need to be schmoozed, run on far less blow, and tend not to complain when you fly them as cargo.

Appearance: Sadly, Manekin Robotto is cursed with a face only an engineer could love. Although not every fashion model is a classic beauty, Manekin Robotto’s cubic head and visible wires commit the cardinal sin of fashion: they would distract you from the clothes.

Verdict: Little more than a walking coathanger, Manekin Robotto won’t be getting the Tyra Banks seal of approval any time soon. But given that the robot model is economical, can be controlled from a PC, and is unlikely to hurl cell phones at assistants, models may find themselves looking over their shoulders on their next trip down the runway.

This humanoid robot may soon replace fashion models (or maybe not) [CrunchGear]

Holy crap do I ever love that one with the scientist hugging the nuke plant. But what do I love more? Two of the tees below. First, I adore the one that says "fucking pterodactyls," a sentiment I experience practically every time Rodan steals my Prius. And the ear mouse one. Just because I've always wanted to grow an extra ear on my cat. I don't think she'd mind.

There are a lot more where these came from, including a bunch more "teach the controversy" ones (including unicorns!). And they're priced pretty reasonably, too.

Amorphia Apparel [official site]

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You can see a bunch more designs at the Atomic Tarantula website. I have the "damn dirty apes" tee and have gotten a lot of compliments on it!

Atomic Tarantula [official site]

Collect them all:

Star Wars Light Saber
Firefly
Master Chief
Nuke
Phaser

Transformers T-shirt is Bad Idea at Airport [via Hide Your Arms]

Starting this Sunday, in time for that night's season 3 premiere, Venture Bros. production house Astrobase Go is offering an exclusive t-shirt to accompany that week's episode:

Each week we premiere a brand new episode of The Venture Bros. television program, we will premiere a brand new t-shirt to go with it RIGHT HERE. The shirt will remain on sale for one week only—until the next episode and the next shirt premiere. We'll only print as many shirts of each design as we receive orders for (okay, we'll probably make a couple for ourselves, too) and once the ad for a shirt is removed, that shirt will never be available again.

Fire up the Murdermobile and call your arch nemesis—because you're about to become a fully licensed member of The Guild of Calamitous Intent the moment you slide one of these 100% cotton American Apparel fine jersey short sleeve black beauties over your cybernetic exoskeleton or henchman's tunic! Emblazoned in gold with the official logo of the recognized leader in organized havoc, this shirt says to the world: "I come in separate cuts and sizes for Men and Women!

"But wait..." you say. "Two weeks equals 14 days, not 13. I'll have to go the laundromat every 13 days now, which is an odd number and completely throws off my weekend plans. What are you trying to pull?" To which we say..."HOW ABOUT A BONUS T-SHIRT?!"

That's right, Venture Bros. Shirt Club subscribers will also receive the coveted SUPER-LIMITED EDITION BONUS BROCK SAMSON KODOKAN BLOOD JUDO T-SHIRT, which is available to SHIRT CLUB SUBSCRIBERS ONLY and is included FREE OF CHARGE with your subscription.

The Amazing Shirt of the Week Club [Astrobase Go]

The new stills and wallpapers, mostly come from the movie's new website, which director Harry Bajewa (Harman's dad) says is the most futuristic website they could make. (It has Java!) And here's that awesome dancing clip. I'm still beyond excited for this movie.

[123 Masala and Bollywood Hungama]

Here's this year's standout Cthulhu for president shirt. Every election season, you've got to vote for the creature who does not represent the "lesser evil," but this tee takes it one step farther. Love the "Ia Ia America Fh'tagn" slogan here — it makes me think that somewhere in the ocean deep, slimy tentacled creatures are singing the praises of the U.S. government. It's good to have allies!

For those who are tossing their lot in with Admiral Adama, leader of Battlestar Galactica, there's always the swag available through AdamaforPresident.org. There's this poster (at left, available in larger sizes obviously), and a simple "Adama 08" tee. No word on his running mate. May we suggest Helo? Anybody who can mutiny against Starbuck can certainly hold his own against Adama. Plus, he has that hybrid baby which makes him totally plugged into the next generation.

Reynolds/Washburn tee [Ziraxia]

Cthulhu 2008 tee [Zazzle]

Open to the public on May 7th, "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy" will display authentic movie costumes, and will reveal how superheros are the ultimate metaphor for fashion and it's ability to empower and transform. There are about 60 pieces on display. Many of the costumes are divided into groups based on the super power and what it does to the body such as Mutant Body, Paradoxical Body, Armored Body and Virile Body. The exhibit will run at the Met from May 7 until September 1. [The Metropolitan Museum Of Art]

I love the tee with the laser-eyed robot (below).

And who could resist this bizarre tee (bottom), which says "wonderful future life" and is topped with inexplicable pictures of mouse heads and explodey stars.

Be sure to check out the Terratag gundam gallery.

Terratag via Hide Your Arms.

Space Fatigues
Seen in BSG, Farscape, Starship Troopers (below), and pretty much anywhere you've got a military-style group zooming around in space. Usually featuring an insignia with a swooshy ship or stars, lots of zippers, and maybe some kind of ammo belt, space fatigues get one crucial thing wrong. In the future, presumably we'll have decent-enough nanotech armor that military types can wear ultra-lightweight clothing that looks like whatever they want and it will still be blaster-proof, and capable of hardening into splints when needed. Plus, zippers in the future? Really? Space fatigues do, of course, have their dressier sides. You can always wear your dress uniform with the gold braid.

The Unisex Onesie
Why do all futuristic space-faring people have these frakkin onesies? It's partly Star Trek's fault, with their awful polyester uniforms. But something about space just makes people think "boxy onesie." Even in the 1980s Buck Rogers (right), which was all about making space sexier, they still had the onsies, albeit in ultratight white and sometimes shiny colors. Plus, they all had these great rainbow armbands to go with their onesies, to make it seem as if in the future gay people would rule the world but no longer shop at The Gap. A subset of the unisex onesie is also the Facist Identity-Erasure Onesie, which you see in THX-1138.

The Holy Crap What the Hell Uniform
The "holy crap what the hell" outfits of Sci-Fi Channel's Dune miniseries and the movie The Fifth Element are a handy way to get at what this style is really all about. Basically, in the future we won't wear onesies (thankfully) but instead we'll have wrapped ourselves in gauze tape to cover just the naughty bits — or for some reason we will wear really tall strange hats. Dune, at least in the Sci-Fi imagining of it, is basically a future where strange headgear have taken over. And don't even get me started on Sting's outfit in David Lynch's Dune movie. It really makes you appreciate the versatility of the phrase "holy crap what the hell?!"

Gwar
I'm glad that the styles pioneered by rock band Gwar have survived into the future, alternate dimensions, and every other nook and cranny of the science fiction universe. For some reason, when people aren't doing what-the-crap with their outfits, or squirming into an impossibly tight onesie, they're dressed in leathers and crazy giant boots. With capes, too, sometimes. The Klingons do it; the Hawkmen in Flash Gordon do it; why shouldn't the entire future of civilization do it too? I should point out that there are a couple of Gwar fashion corollaries. There is the Nine Inch Nails look, shown off in Farscape quite a bit, as well as inside the Matrix. Then there is the Hippie Shift look, which you see a lot in Star Wars and incidentally also in the Matrix when people are outside the Matrix's Nine Inch Nails sartorial zone. In fact, who could forget the shocking displays of Hippie Shifts during the rave scene in Matrix: Reloaded? You cannot wash your eyes out with soap and make the memory go away.

For only $7.95, you too can knit yourself into a Carrie Fisher frame of mind, thanks to Etsy member Ansley Bleu. That's the price of a special knitting pattern for a "Leia wig hat," able to transform even the least coke-addled starlet amongst us into Debbie Reynolds' wild child princess from Alderaan.

Ansley, based in LA, has managed to get the best celebrity endorsement for her work - Not only has Carrie Fisher herself seen the hat, she's worn it onstage as part of a one-woman show about her life. It really doesn't get any better than that.

Pattern, Knit Leia Wig [Etsy]

There is a reason why you never see extraterrestrials fumbling to prevent bulky umbrellas from flying away in a rainstorm.

UFO Cap main page

According to a release from the National Science Foundation, which partially funded the research:

Zhong Lin Wang and collaborators Xudong Wang and Yong Qin have made more than 200 of the fiber nanogenerators. Each is tested on an apparatus that uses a spring and wheel to move one fiber against the other. The fibers are rubbed together for up to 30 minutes to test their durability and power production.

The researchers have measured current of about four nanoamperes and output voltage of about four millivolts from a nanogenerator that included two fibers that were each one centimeter long. With a much improved design, Wang estimates that a square meter of fabric made from the special fibers could theoretically generate as much as 80 milliwatts of power.

So far, there is only one wrinkle in the fabric, so to speak - washing it. Zinc oxide is sensitive to moisture, so in real shirts or jackets, the nanowires would have to be protected from the effects of the washing machine.

Nanowire Shirt [NSF]

It also means you can probably get a faux fur coat made to look like Sulley from Monsters, Inc. Images by Lama Concept

Lama Collection via Transmaterial

At least the pre-torn skirts and tops will save the cyborgs a lot of time, when they catch up with you. And it's good that one skirt says "CANNIBAL" on it, lest your captors forget what they are.

Meanwhile, self-proclaimed postapocalyptic designer Yeohlee Teng unveiled her fall 2008 collection last month, and it actually does look like stuff that might offer some protection from falling satellites and spattering monster blood. Could this be a rare instance where mainstream fashion is actually smarter than subculture wear? Look at this gallery and decide for yourself: Yeohlee photos by Scott Gries/Getty Images for IMG.

In The Antineutral Suit: Futurist Manifesto (1914), Balla railed against "neutral, 'nice,' [and] faded" colors, not to mention "stripes, checks, and diplomatic little dots." Instead, Futurist attire would be "Dynamic, with textiles of dynamic patterns and colors (triangles, cones, spirals . . .) that inspire the love of danger, speed, and assault, and loathing of peace and immobility." Balla also predicted Diana Dew's light-up fashions of the 1960s when he called for "Phosphorescent textiles that ... spread light around when it rains, and meliorate the dimness of twilight in the streets and in the nerves." Tim Gunn would be proud of the way Balla incorporated the tenets of his manifesto into the cut of suit—though probably less so of the way the Futurists went on to ally themselves with Mussolini's fascist government.

Here's Balla in his suit, almost perfectly camouflaged against a background of Futurist art and architecture.The Antineutral Suit: Futurist Manifesto quotes from Emily Braun, "Futurist Fashion: Three Manifestoes," Art Journal (Spring 1995).

Image by Daniel Ochoa de Olza/AP.

Photos by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images. [WWD]

Here's the scary athletic shoe model, which you can use to crush androids underfoot or spring to your job at the nanofactory.

And here is all the proof you need — other than watching Z-coil's instructional video — that these shoes are truly scientific and certainly cutting-edge. I know Alvin "Future Shock" Toffler said the future would be psychotic, but I don't remember him ever mentioning "orthotic" . . .

Zcoil [company site]

This is a gold face mask. It really has no purpose other than costing $105 and looking like something you'd get done on Raisa the pleasure planet from Star Trek. AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying.

Priced at $150, the dresses weren't cheap, but they were plenty fun. Wearers could adjust the lights to flash from one to twelve beats per minute, while the batteries were good for five hours of go-go-ing. "If a girl wants to flash for ten hours, she'll have to get a bigger battery," Dew told Time in 1967. Dew's switched-on fashions fit right in with paper, plastic and other futuristic designs of the times. But it wasn't all frivolity: according to author Joel Lobenthal, Dew eventually sold the technology to the U.S. military. Photo by Ed Pfizenmaier.

UK Streetwear brand Addict have teamed up with Lucasfilm to produce exclusive boxed tees depicting three of the most iconic characters from the original Star Wars Trilogy! Called the Icons Series, it's a one-off set of officially licensed tees illustrated by artist Mitch, known by many for his work in the music industry — Amp Fiddler, Bugz in the Attic, Incognito, The Bees, and Howie B are just a few of the musicians he's worked with.

As seen here, for the Star Wars Icons Series, the artist's signature style accurately captures the essence of Boba Fett — not surprising, since the artist counts Star Wars concept artist Ralph McQuarrie among his earliest influences... And like fine art, the t-shirts come packaged in an illustrated custom box — no cheap metal hangers here.

Here's the official episode summary. I love that she's a conservative talk-show host when she's not dressing like a freak:

THE GREEN ARROW AND BLACK CANARY BATTLE IN SMALLVILLE — While secretly working for Oliver (guest star Justin Hartley), Chloe (Allison Mack) intercepts one of Lex's (Michael Rosenbaum) project files, but she is attacked by the Black Canary (guest star Alaina Huffman), a mystery woman with a subsonic cry. Dinah Lance, Black Canary's alter ego, is a conservative talk show host who is working at the Daily Planet and clashes with Lois (Erica Durance).

Photo by Getty Images.

On her web site, she has sixty-some photos of herself dressed as brides from different ethnic groups. Here, she takes a break from her anthropological self-fashioning to become an alien. Isn't she pretty? Makes me wanna marry an alien too. Image by Kimiko Yoshida

Kimiko Yoshida main page via Pink Tentacle

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The Hexagram shirt was inspired by and conceived to fit into the dystopic universe of Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, a novel depicting what the world would have been like during the 1960s, had the Axis won WWII.

In the book, the U.S. west coast is a colony of Japan, whose rule and influence has permeated and dominated Californian society for years. The Book of Changes has become the mainstream method, for Japanese and Californian people alike, to take important decisions in life.

Whenever someone has a choice to make, that person takes out three little coins that are shaken and tossed on a surface several times, the resulting heads and tails data is then translated into one of the 64 hexagrams that comprise the Book of Changes.

• Snorg Tees prides themselves on being a pop-culture t-shirt powerhouse, but they only have three sci fi shirt designs in the midst. Thankfully, they're all sublime, ranging from the brand-new outer space sex design, to the fate of poor Pluto, and my personal favorite, the Back to the Future rebus
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• Threadless is an extremely cool "voice of the masses" t-shirt shop where people submit designs, and you vote on 'em to decide if they should be made into shirts. Since it's all submitted designs and not licensed properties, you'll get truly original stuff like The Voyage of the Space Chrysalises, Rocketbird, The League Of Cliche Evil Super-Villains, and I know we said no Star Wars, but this Dark Side of the Garden shirt with a topiary-cutting Vader is inspired.
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• Seibei has some of the stranger shirts we've seen out there, like this Strange Invaders one. However, if zombies turn out to be caused by a human-created supervirus, and not just some living dead hoohah, then you can pick up this Intramural Zombie Hunter shirt, complete with bloodstains.
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• NerdyShirts is actually much more geeky than nerdy. They have some great shirts like this Optimus Prime one that is loads better than the recent movie was, an elect Bruce Campbell in 2008 shirt (complete with chainsaw), an extremely wacky Spidermanmobile, and everyone's favorite Japanese nerdy guy, Hiro.
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• 80stees specializes in vintage-looking shirts featuring everything from Knight Rider '82, to a Better, Faster, Stronger Six Million Dollar man shirt. You can even get the Greatest American Hero's costume here, if you're looking for a new outfit. Instructions not included.
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• Palmercash has a lot of offbeat shirts, like Nixon in '78 and the like, but if you do some searching you'll find everything from this vintage-cut ladies Pixelbot t-shirt, to a day-glo Space Invaders piece of work. They're a bit pricy for t-shirts, but I brought my brother one for Christmas, and he loves the damn thing.
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• Neighborhoodies will let you design your own everything, from hoodies, to t-shirts, to boxers. They have a few ready made shirts, including this Planet Express number from Futurama, but you should feel free to let your imagination run wild. Beware, it's entirely addictive once you get started.
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• Cafe Press has an entire science fiction category on their site, but they are frequently hit or miss. They run from the sub-par to the subdued. Plus, since the fans are running the asylum, you'll see an overload of Firefly and Star Trek stuff. Not that there's anything wrong with that, we just like a little variety on our body.

This and other works by Chalayan are currently on view at the Space for your Future exhibit in Tokyo. Images by Getty

Hussein Chalayan [Designer home page]

Wanna get married on a different planet? Here are some bridal trains that won't trip you up in zero-g.

These designs are perfect for those going on the interplanetary party ship.

Rocketplane's holding competitions in the US and Europe starting next year, so stay tuned for some more space age-y designs. Images courtesy of Chuck Lauer