Obscure Sci Fi Robots
Even if you don’t like to build replicas of movie robots, you can often draw inspiration from cinema. Everyone knows Robby the Robot, Gort, and R2D2. But [Atomic Snack Bar] …read more Continue reading Obscure Sci Fi Robots
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Ranking Apple TV+ sci-fi shows: From ‘Severance’ to ‘For All Mankind’
Apple TV+ has clearly decided to invest in top-shelf science fiction as a defining pillar of its offering – and overall, it’s put together an impressive slate. Some shows have been outright successes, and where others have missed, there’s at least been… Continue reading Ranking Apple TV+ sci-fi shows: From ‘Severance’ to ‘For All Mankind’
Predicting the A-Bomb: The Cartmill Affair
There’s an upcoming movie, Argyle, about an author whose spy novels are a little too accurate, and she becomes a target of a real-life spy game. We haven’t seen the …read more Continue reading Predicting the A-Bomb: The Cartmill Affair
Greg Jein Sci-fi collection – an overview of the records
Records galore fell at Heritage Auctions’ Greg Jein Collection sale of science fiction memorabilia last weekend, with the auction grossing US$13.6 million to surpass Christie’s 1999 auction of The Personal Property of Marilyn Monroe to become the second-highest grossing Hollywood auction in history, behind only Profiles in History’s blockbuster Debbie Reynolds Collection Auction trilogy (2011).
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: Star Trek, star wars, Science Fiction, Heritage Auctions, Profiles in History, Propstore, Julien’s Auctions
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Sci Fi UI Made Easy With Arwes
Many of us grew up watching Star Trek, marvelling at the beautiful colorful interfaces on the computers that ran the Starship Enterprise. Today’s computer interfaces have certainly grown fancier since …read more Continue reading Sci Fi UI Made Easy With Arwes
Announcing: The 2022 Hackaday.io Sci-Fi Contest
Ladies and Gentlemen, Sentient robots, Travellers from the distant future, or Aliens from the outer rim, it’s time to enter the 2022 Hackaday.io Sci-Fi Contest! We last ran the Sci-Fi …read more Continue reading Announcing: The 2022 Hackaday.io Sci-Fi Contest
SpaceX Sending Tom Cruise to the Space Station in 2021
Several months after NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine confirmed the project was in the works, sources are now reporting that Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman will officially be making the trip to the International Space Station in October of 2021 to film scenes for an as of yet untitled movie. …read more
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The Birth of the Modern Robot
When Isaac Asmiov was writing I, Robot, the field of robotics was still in its infancy. As he notes in The Complete Robot, as the field began to mature, it started showing signs of conforming to the popular ideas held by science fiction writers about what robotics ought …read more
Patrol the Sprawl with this Battle Ready Cyberdeck
The recent crop of cyberdeck builds are inspired, at least tangentially, by William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer and its subsequent sequels. In the novels, the decks are used as mobile terminals to access the virtual reality of cyberspace. In our world, they’re usually just quasi-retro boxes with Raspberry Pis in them. …read more
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Designing Sci-Fi Hack Chat
Join us on Wednesday, October 9 at noon Pacific for the Designing Sci-Fi Hack Chat with Seth Molson!
We all know the feeling of watching a movie set in a galaxy far, far away and seeing something that makes us say, “That’s not realistic at all!” The irony of watching