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Holy wow, the full length trailer for Jupiter Ascending is incredible

David Smothers March 26, 2014

All right. Okay. Wow. After getting teased with an itty bit of Jupiter Ascending, we now get to see the full trailer and it’s all kind of fantasy sci-fi perfect. A battle for Earth, spaceships, machine porn, alien worlds, superpowers, guessing when Sean Bean will die, The Wachowskis, the movie seems to have it all…. Continue Reading »

ENTERTAINMENT

Inside the design interface genius of Oblivion

David Smothers August 26, 2013

For decades, popular film and television science fiction properties have informed the real world of technology and product design. From the rocket ship inspired car tail fins of the ’50s, to the Star Trek-influenced smartphone and tablets of today, the creative minds of sci-fi are always silently guiding the hands of our design culture as… Continue Reading »

PLANETS

How Star Wars Just Inspired a Real-Life Scientific Discovery

David Smothers July 23, 2013

The real-life Tatooine may not have two suns—but it has unlocked the secrets of a geomorphic mystery. Close to Tozeur, Tunisia—George Lucas’s stand-in for the barren planet—there’s a wilderness of sand that’s permanently changing. When wind whistles across the dunes, it pushes that sand into huge, crescent-shaped structures known as barchans. These things are huge,… Continue Reading »