Have the Best Day Ever and Watch Over 100 Amazing Vintage Star Wars Toy...
The official Star Wars website just made our day, and we have to say thanks. StarWars.com posted an article full of vintage Kenner Star Wars toy commercials, and they’re just about the best thing...
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Scientists Found a Way to Control Machines With Your Mind, No Brain Surgery...
The US military is looking for ways to insert microscopic devices into human brains to help folks communicate with machines, like prosthetic limbs, with their minds. And now, DARPA’s saying scientists...
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Some Bestselling Science Fiction Authors Just Made Their Own Platform
The Internet offers lots of opportunities for authors to connect with readers—but it can still be hard for an author to get noticed among the crowd of other aspiring scribes. So 10 authors, who include...
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That Time When a Fake Science Fiction Author Won a Major Novel-Writing Prize
Back in 1953, Galaxy Science Fiction and Simon & Schuster launched a huge contest to find a great new science fiction novel. The prize was $6,500 (a lot of money in those days). The winner? A brand...
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The Unlikely Origins of Deadpool, The X-Men Character Who Conquered All Media
Deadpool wasn’t always a comics (and movie, and video game) superstar. The Merc with a Mouth started out much smaller, as a supporting character in one of the many X-Men comic books. We talked to the...
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Hackers Found a Way to Make Furbies Even Creepier
When Furby hit store shelves in November 1998, it was an instant hit. Kids loved it. Parents loved it. People paid three times the Furby’s retail value just to get one for the holidays, and within...
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Chinese Fusion Test Hits 90 Million Degrees for 102 Seconds
Tests at a fusion reactor in China have hit a major milestone. The experiments have created plasma with a temperature of 90 million degrees Fahrenheit —hotter than the core of our Sun—and sustained the...
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Dying Light: The Following: The Kotaku Review
I am pleased to report that in Dying Light: The Following, you can still dropkick a zombie off a cliff and into the sea. You also get to drive a car.I liked last year’s Dying Light, so I was...
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Hannibal's Bryan Fuller is Producing the New Star Trek TV Show
This is the best possible choice. Bryan Fuller—who worked on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager back in the day, before going on to create Pushing Daisies, Wonderfalls and Hannibal—will...
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Robot Fights Break Out in New Hampshire, Sparking Fears of a Robot Uprising
Fights broke out today in New Hampshire between anti-Marco Rubio robots and pro-Rubio humans. It could not yet be confirmed whether the robot uprising has begun, but someone needs to tell that woman...
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All the Awesomely Tacky Things the Devil's Identity Thief Does on Lucifer
Last night, Lucifer and Chloe solved another murder despite their constant squabbles. But “The Would-Be Prince of Darkness” also introduced the amusing but provocative concept of someone trying to...
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Drone Racing Is Starting to Look More Exciting Than a Top Gun Dogfight
Racing drones still isn’t considered as challenging as other vehicular sports given the pilots aren’t actually inside the vehicles they’re controlling. But watching the first-person footage of this...
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Feast Your Eyes on These Colorful Pop-Culture Portraits by Artist Mauro Balcazar
Artist Mauro Balcazar draws inspiration for his mixed-media work from his favorite movies and TV shows—with a focus on expressive, colorful portraits of scifi and fantasy characters who’ve become...
View ArticleThe Best Scene from Last Night's X-Files Contained Neither Mulder Nor Scully
Despite all the speculation that “Home Again” would revisit the classic episode “Home,” we instead got an episode that tried to recapture the brilliance of season one’s “Beyond the Sea.” It didn’t...
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The Only Cool Way to Ride a Hoverboard is to Turn It into the Flying Cloud...
Hoverboards ruined Christmas, burst into flames, look foolish, are widely banned, and don’t hover. Lame all around. Except when you turn one of them into a famous magical item from one of the world’s...
View ArticleKotaku Amazon’s New Engine Has A Zombie Clause | Adequate Man Bad Internet...
Kotaku Amazon’s New Engine Has A Zombie Clause | Adequate Man Bad Internet Comments Are The Best Thing In The World | Gizmodo What Happens When You Keep Fruit Flies in Total Darkness for 60 Years | The...
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Cult Children's TV Character H.R. Pufnstuf Is (Briefly) Returning to the...
I am rarely in the company of children, which I’ll use as my excuse for not knowing about Nick Jr. show Mutt & Stuff until now. Get this, though: it stars the “nephew” of H.R. Pufnstuf—arguably the...
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Brain Preservation Breakthrough Could Usher in a New Era in Cryonics
Researchers from 21st Century Medicine have developed a new technique to allow long term storage of a near-perfect mammalian brain. It’s a breakthrough that could have serious implications for...
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Today's Best Deals: Corsair Peripherals, Valentine's Day Gift Cards, and More
Corsair PC peripherals, Valentine’s day gift cards, and discounted Sonos speakers kick off Tuesday’s best deals. Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on Twitter to never miss a deal. Commerce Content is...
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Kazuo Ishiguro Has a Brilliant Response to People Who Think Genre Fiction...
If a primary task of fiction is to explore the human experience—who we are and what we mean to each other—then the fantastic and unreal must surely be key elements in that exploration. But plenty of...
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