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A Faithful Reconstruction of A.E.R. Pipewell's Time Machine

A reclusive scientist named A.E.R. Pipewell may have disappeared without much notice during World War I, but to his contemporaries Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison he was something of a legend. Sadly, most of his workshop was destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906, but recently some of his schematics came to light. An engineer named Alan Rorie put together Pipewell's "perplexing device" known as the "dihemispheric chromaether agitator," which apparently Pipewell believed could travel in time at 1 SPS (second per second). Want to see the time machine being powered up by a steam engine? More »

12:00 PM on Wed Feb 27 2008
By Annalee Newitz
2,542 views, 13 comments

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Another Bollywood Scifi Classic In The Making

Indian mega-star Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) wants to produce the company's most expensive movie ever, an untitled science fiction film about kids whose wishes start coming true. Khan, the star of international hit Om Shanti Om, was supposed to produce and star in S. Shankar's Robot, but bailed on the project. Now he wants to make his own movie to top upcoming Bollywood epics like Time Machine, Love Story 2050 and Robot. More »

10:40 AM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
826 views, 6 comments

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Five Bollywood Science Fiction Movies You Should Know

Bollywood song-and-dance meets robots and aliens. How can that not rule? If Shekhar Kapur's Time Machine finally gets made, it'll be part of a bold new wave of Bollywood science fiction. Including Indian superhero Krrish, fighting a motorcycle gang in the clip above. We have full details on Krrish and four other awesome Bollywood scifi movies. More »

1:30 PM on Tue Jan 29 2008
By charliejane
4,154 views, 12 comments