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Mad Scientist Lights for Your Home Lab Ever wanted to give your inner sanctum sanctorum some flickering evil genius style lighting? That mad scientist's lair you've been silently constructing in the basement can now have ready-made lighting, complete with brass fixtures, tube lights, and skull knobs. Gothic Glow has made it much easier to have steampunk-style filaments burning in your house, so instead of spending that time working on the lights, you can devote it to your doomsday device, or your mechanical suit of self-aware armor.

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aventures extraordinaires d'adele blanc-sec

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Director Luc Besson's company EuropaCorp announced today that they have acquired the rights to Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adele Blanc-Sec, a French graphic novel series that's been published since 1976. Adele Blanc-Sec, a popular novelist turned journalist, investigates mysterious happenings as a sort of one-woman X-Files unit who wasn't afraid to "drink, smoke, and shoot like a man." More »

3:30 PM on Mon Jan 28 2008
By Kevin Kelly
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Latest by phoberomys: I'm so glad Adele is rediscovered. I read the books years ago. Her adventures could be great adventure-games because the artwork is fantastic.Might be as good as Benoit Sokals' works turned into the games Syberia I and II.And look out more »

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Everything You Need to Know About the Madness of Nikola Tesla

When you hear the name Nikola Tesla, chances are you think of the Tesla coil or the 80s metal hair band. Tesla was the first real mad scientist of the twentieth century: Not only did he invent that coil and alternating-current electricity (which you're probably using right now to read this), but he also researched death rays, time-travel, and peering at memories stored inside the human brain. Studio 360 explored the history of Tesla over the weekend, and we've got the highlights, along with some other tidbits about the madman who ate only foods whose volume he could measure precisely, and who tried to build an electrical superweapon. More »

11:00 AM on Mon Jan 28 2008
By Kevin Kelly
5,962 views, 40 comments

Latest by iamthechad: not to be too much of a pedant, but Tesla did not invent AC power. he figured out how to make electric motors that would run on AC. the guy did do a lot of amazing things (including shutting down more »

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Ten Scifi Songs You Should Take to a Barren Asteroid

The year is 2199, and you've just entered the long phase of your thirty-year journey to the outer reaches of the galaxy. You're about to enter suspended animation when, oops, something goes wrong. You end up stranded an a decent-sized chunk of asteroid, and thanks to the technology of the future, you have a self-replenishing oxygen supply, and a foodgizmo that will keep you flush with nutrient cubes for decades. However, your implanted music device has shorted out during the crash, and you only have one playlist available to you: Great Science Fiction Songs From Back In The Day. What's on that playlist? Click through to find out. More »

11:00 AM on Tue Jan 15 2008
By Kevin Kelly
4,297 views, 75 comments

Latest by myrcurial: Don't forget most of the output of Toto (Dune Soundtrack) or Information Society (esp. Hack and Peace and Love). Anyone else notice how 80s centric this list is? more »

Guillermo Del Toro Piecing Together Frankenstein For TV Guillermo del Toro isn't content enough to sit back on his Pan's Labyrinth earnings and let Hellboy 2: The Golden Army just ride the coattails of the original film into the box office. He's rumbling about a new television version of the mad scientist classic Frankentstein. "The only way to do the Shelley novel is to actually do a four-hour miniseries," said Del Toro, which is probably the smartest comment we've ever heard about adopting this book into a project. We say, you go, Guillermo. We know you could easily trump that Kenneth Branagh / Robert De Niro version. [MTV Movie Blog]

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