Sydney Morning Herald
Google's 'Terminator glasses' will turn us all into insufferable sci-fi nerds
Death and Taxes
Awesome as the technology sounds, and incredible as it is that Google is bringing sci-fi to life, I'm already picturing a sadly narcissistic future walking New York's streets two years from now, when we'll all be viewing each other from behind walled ...
The Future Is Now: Google to Manufacture Internet GlassesFlavorwire
Google Shipping HUD-Enabled Glasses This YearEscapist Magazine
Follow-Up: Google's Goggles Come Into FocusFast Company
Power Retail -WebProNews -Mashable
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Ready for a rowdy band of psychic vampires, a middle-aged Danny Torrance and the little boy named Tony who lives in his mouth? Stephen King promoted an epidemic of insomnia this week by unveiling the initial chapter from his long-dormant Shining follow-up, Dr. Sleep.

ABC2 News
The sci-fi cars of the future are closer than you think
ABC2 News
At first glance it seems like the stuff of science fiction. But Belcher said fully automated cars could be close at hand. In fact, he said, what might ultimately keep them off the road could be us. "The question is going to be not whether we can do ...

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Science Fiction
Disney Offering Free Mondo Posters At 'John Carter' IMAX Screenings
Science Fiction
For the moviegoers who decide to attend the midnight IMAX screenings of Andrew Stanton's adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' sci-fi adventure, Disney has teamed up with Mondo to provide them with a free commemorative poster.
'John Carter': Disney's Quarter-Billion-Dollar Movie FiascoDaily Beast
'John Carter': Fan-Made Trailer, Mondo Poster, & Early ReviewsScreen Rant
John Carter Title, Story & BudgetComic Book Resources
MovieViral -Access Hollywood -ComicsAlliance
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A new international trailer for the upcoming alien invasion flick Battleship literally brings us eye to eye with one of the bad guys.

It's one of comics' oldest and most popular rivalries—the Dark Knight versus the Clown Prince of Crime—and it's gone on so long, in part, because Batman has a strict no-kill rule even when it comes to the most dastardly members of his rogues' gallery. But is sparing the Joker's life the right thing to do?

Yesterday we brought you the first set pics from Doctor Who's upcoming seventh season, taken on location in Cardiff. Today, the BBC has released its first OFFICIAL pic of our beloved time-traveling trio.

It seemed to be a week of low numbers across the board for the 22 shows we follow. Once Upon a Time took a leap, but Alcatraz continued to drop viewers and The River had a dismal second week on the air.

The script for an aborted episode of Star Trek: The Original Series has now resurfaced after being virtually lost to the annals of Trek history since it was scrapped in 1967.

Johnny Depp might be stuck in a time warp. Between Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Dark Shadows, he seems obsessed with the '70s. With his latest gig, the actor is tackling another blast from the past—The Night Stalker.

Though the rights to the Terminator franchise may have been tied up in legal limbo until they were snatched up last year, the turmoil never stopped one small development studio from trucking along with a proposed CGI-animated, 3D take on John Connor & Co.

Newt Gingrich's Fantasy Campaign—and the Fictions That Gave Rise to It
The Atlantic
By Jeet Heer His ideas may seem merely grandiose, but they reveal the deep affinity between American conservatism and one branch of science fiction. Stagnating in distant third place in the national polls, is there any way Newt Gingrich could still win ...

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Jakarta Globe
Avatar was more than a sci-fi movie: Cage
Times of India
Avatar to me was more than a science-fiction movie, District 9 was more than a science-fiction movie, but they were wonderful science-fiction movies. But I was very upset about what was happening to the characters in District 9and I made parallels to ...
Movie Review - 'Ghost Rider' so bad it's almost goodStarNewsOnline.com

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Ordinary people use makeup to look more beautiful during those important times ... such as driving through rush-hour traffic. However, as tonight's Syfy episode of Face Off will prove (at 10/9C), the art of movie makeup instead often involves making someone look hideously alien.

Whatever else one may think of nerds, sometimes the obsessive streak that we all share can, occasionally, give way to brilliance. Hence this massive, Renaissance-esque tableau, which imagines the Star Wars saga's cast in Da Vinci's Last Supper. And what look like painterly flourishes are actually the telltale marks of a mosaic.

Part of the reason we keep hearing rumblings about trouble with Disney's John Carter is the flick's reportedly huge budget and director Andrew Stanton's lack of discipline with it. The rumor for quite some time has been that he let the budget balloon out of control. Well, Stanton's heard those rumors, and he's got something to say.

The dream team of Star Trek: The Next Generation's Captain Picard and Doctor Who's, er, Doctor will materialize on our comic book shelves with all its crossover sci-fi goodness in May. While we're quite happy with Assimilation's choice of baddies (the Borg and Cybermen alliance) what we now really want to know is—will there be cameos, and, more importantly, will there be Q?

Sci-Fi Fashion Week 2013
SFX
Here's some sci-fi inspiration for next year's event Marlon Brando here models the Yeti-hiding-under-a-mushroom look popularised in the film The Island Of Doctor Moreau. Perfectly offset by the Bette-Davis-putting-her-make-up-on-in-an-earthquake ...

Can you imagine being a plant worker whose great-uncle knew you like comics as a kid and left you a couple of boxes of 'em when he died—and then discovering that those boxes held a one-of-a-kind collection worth millions? Welcome to Michael Rorrer's life.

Dentistry.co.uk
Sci-fi fan gets 'Space Odyssey' dental theme
Dentistry.co.uk
Dentist and Stanley Kubrick fans Girk and Kathy Baytug had a dream of developing a modern 'space age' dental practice. As part of the briefing process, the architects were simply given a DVD of Stanley Kubrick's iconic film, 2001: A Space Odyssey and ...