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more about #mecha Stueymon: I only recently saw surrogates and something that stuck in my head. Surely those fancy robots would be extremely expensive? it wouldn't be something t... more » Malfunktion v2: This just further proves that the back story was infinitely better than the movie itself. more » DiExMachina: Just my luck, if I had one, I would have to install microwave ovens, deliver custom kitchens. I would probably move refrigerators. Hell they would ... more » evildead1971: you could only hump washing machines and dishwashers with that robot body more » braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: I like how it is manufactured by Kia. more » WaR_HaWk: i dont get one thing, why did surrogates flopped? it was a really good movie. more » CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): I only saw this film the other day, so its very fresh in my mind. I thourghly enjoyed it, so did my missus. It was funny seeing an 'airbrushed' Bruce ... more » GreyHammer: i still say the premise is flawed. if everyone migrated to using surrogate things instead of themselves it would be in a digital space and not real sp... more » CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): Loving it. I suppose the normal route for this suit would be haulage/warehouse work. Does that mean we will need a licsence to drive it? Personally I ... more » Klebert L. Hall: Seems mostly like vaporware. 220 pounds? I can lift that, and I'm fat, old, out of shape, and asthmatic. This'll be useful when it lifts 1000 pounds... more » Evdor: Upon being greenlit for active duty, a new Military By-law now prevents anyone from saying the words "Get away from her, you bitch" at any time during... more » Bill-Lee: Add a roll cage and Caterpillar treads and it would be exactly like the Aliens Power Loader. more » capnrob: So .. _Gamer_ plus Budry's _Rogue Moon_? Enh, could be worse. more » disatess: how do humans play in the so-called alien prequel. someone explain that to me . the first time we discovered the alien was in alien , mind you thei... more » Sockatume: If the screenplay causes spontaneous orgasms, maybe they didn't want to create the movie for fear of triggering mass orgies. more » Perhaps Not: I'm sorry, "I never had multiple orgasms while reading the first ten pages of a screenplay until Shadow 19 (and I've read a lot of scripts)?" Harry K... more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: Sounds like a good videogame, but as a movie? I doubt it. more » TheGreenRanger: How dare they mock the green ranger. SIT SIT SEE YAAHHHHHH. Damn, i love miles fisher, if you haven't seen his American psycho video, well you mus... more » Shogunate: it looks like Atom.com is temporarily down -- but the first episode and gag reel are also up on YouTube. (as the director, can i say it's superco... more » ObadiahSneep: Looks like a Live action version of Titan Maximus that's not as cool. more » -
#conceptart
The Lower Class Surrogates We Didn't See On Screen
This year's robotic avatar movie Surrogates showed us a world where humans live through beautiful robotic bodies. But the film's concept designer thought that not everyone might have such glamorous surrogates, as this new concept art reveals. More » -
#exosuits
Aliens-Style Power Loader Will Have You Battling Xenomorphs in No Time
While Cyberdyne plans to outfit our military personnel in exosuits straight out of Iron Man, Activelink draws its exosuit inspiration from Aliens, creating an actual Power Loader that's nearly ready for Ripley. More » -
#shadow19
"Alien" Prequel Writer's Other Movie, About A Mecha Death Suit
Ridley Scott tapped screenwriter Jon Spahits to write the prequel to Alien, and the script for Spahits' unproduced film Shadow 19 shows us why: it's a videogame-fueled romp through an alien planet filled with space battles, sentient machines, and mecha. More » -
#themegabot
Life Inside A Giant Crime Fighting Mecha Is Hard
From the site that hosts the Legend of Neil webseries comes more science-fiction comedy. Meet The Megabot team, they are out to save the world, drink, cry, and burn. Guard your ears: the fight for justice includes adult language. More » -
#conceptart
Digital Portraits of Our Decaying Mecha Future
Daniel Conway's digital paintings imagine richly detailed scenes from humanity's future, a time when mecha suits and robot warriors have been part of our lives so long that we have had time to see even them tarnish and beautifully decay. More » -
#titanmaximum
The Science Fiction Of Your Childhood Gets the Robot Chicken Treatment
Tom Root, Mathew Senreich and Seth Green are out to corrupt your Voltron memories with Titan Maximum, their new series about a squad of pilots who must battle a former member of their giant robot team — with sex jokes. More » -
#gundamrock
Andrew W.K. Parties Hard on Gundam Tribute Album
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Mobile Suit Gundam, the television series about space war and mecha suits that launched a phenomenon in Japan. Headbanging rocker Andrew W.K. plans to celebrate with a tribute album to Gundam's music. More » -
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#scifashion
3D Knit Dresses Let You Go Mecha Chic
Just because Halloween is over doesn’t mean you can’t dress like a Transformer. Fashion designer Sandra Blacklund creates three-dimensional knitwear in unusual and elaborate shapes that turns the wearer into a living sculpture. And her latest line is clearly robot-influenced, so you can act out your wildest mecha warrior fantasies. More » -
#takashimurakami
Murakami's Freaky, Posthuman Technicolor Visions Coming to New York
If you've been wondering what might happen if you dropped two hits of acid and then wandered into an anime shop, you'll want to check out Takashi Murakami. Yesterday we caught the last day of the months-long © Murakami exhibit at the MOCA in downtown Los Angeles, and saw the bizarre cute/scary creatures in artist/designer Murakami's work, which you may have seen emblazoned on t-shirts, bags, and posters. Next it's moving to New York where it'll open at the Brooklyn Museum in April. Click through to see a preview of what's in store for New Yorkers who visit the exhibit. More » -
#cthulhutech
Cthulhu + Mechas = CthulhuTech
You take a shambling horror from a Lovecraft story, pop a couple of shoulder cannons on it and a replace a few tentacles with laser beams, and you've got yourself a whole new kind of horror: CthulhuTech. More » -
#conceptart
Robo Supply Units Can Harm Or Heal
When an intrepid visitor smuggled some shots of the concept artwork for Bionic Commando out of the bowels of one of Capcom's development pods, little did he know he'd be providing a glimpse of the future of civil service. One of the coolest pieces he smuggled out is this sketch showing two different sets of mecha-armor suits: one full of .50 caliber ammunition replenishment, and the other sporting a red cross and a massive needle. Although if you were lying prone on the battlefield in need of a kickstart, would you want someone trying to find a vein with that thing? More »
