Elysium, Neill Blomkamp’s long-delayed futuristic Matt Damon vehicle, tells the story of a class war between the unwashed masses, who live on Earth, and the super wealthy, who live in an absurdly opulent community in the sky. And as it turns out, the super-luxe buildings of Elsyium's tomorrow actually exist right here in the present day. Read More >>

A great man once said that the best kind of gun is the one you only have to fire once. That man was Tony Stark, and he is the world's greatest weapons manufacturer. The only problem is that he's also fictional. Despite the fact that the Iron Man himself doesn't exist, that doesn't mean that awesome weapons from TV and movies don't exist. These are the best weapons that were inspired by movies and TV. Read More >>

Over the weekend, we received the tragic news that Ray Cusick, the original designer of Dr Who's Dalek arch-enemies, and small-child-terrifyer In Chief, passed away, nearly fifty years after the armour-clad mutants first made all of Britain's kiddies poo themselves. Read More >>

When Arthur Buxton stumbled across a super-organized archive of Penguin's science fiction, he thought it would be interesting to look at how the covers of the books had changed over time. He was right—and the labor of his work is this striking visualization. Buxton explains: Read More >>

Noon is the new North Pole. A sun-drenched city in a world 250 years in the future, desolated by nuclear mining, which set off a 50-year-long earthquake, and a volcanic eruption large enough to halt the Earth's rotation. This awesome 10-minute short shows a brutal world ravaged by corruption and greed, and looking like a cross between District 9 and Judge Dredd, it's well worth a watch. Read More >>

What you're looking at here is Rha, an amazing short that, frankly, needs to be made into a full feature. Aliens fighting robots, with the intellect we'd associate with 'the machines' from The Matrix. If you love good sci-fi, this is a must watch. Read More >>

Hundreds of sci-fi movies have depicted hyperspace travel, where stars appear as streaks of light as the spacecraft in question surges forward. But according to a team of physicists, that's bullshit — and hyperspace travel would look a whole lot fuzzier. Read More >>

Paramount's trickling out tiny teasers to keep our interest piqued, first a poster, then that awesome trailer, and now Benedict Cumberbatch locked up in the brig. Something tells me, by the menacing distain for Kirk written across his face, he's not going to stay there for very long. Read More >>

From evil cars with minds of their own to chainsaws used to torture and taunt -- many of our favourite horror movies would be nothing without a little technology. Here's how it played a role in some of the spookiest stories on film. (Warning: GIFs) Read More >>

Halloween is tomorrow so it may be a little late to start on that paper-mache masterpiece you've been dreaming up, but with a little foresight and planning you could have made something truly incredible like this -- a Locutus of Borg costume with working lights, robotics, and everything. The ultimate sci-fi geek's costume. Read More >>

It has been said that a circle has no end, but where did it begin? Take the circle of art and technology, for example: which one influences the other more, and which one came first? Is it just one big feedback loop where science fiction will always conceptualise technology, or do technologists and developers dramatise art in their own creations? Will a visual effects studio ever be contracted to create the next version of Android, iOS or Windows? So many beautiful interfaces are spied in films, but what are the chances of the next big thing being something from a movie? Read More >>

We've already had some cracking releases this year already haven't we? From a group of assembled Avengers, to planetary exploration with the spaceship Prometheus, we've been (relatively) amazed by a spiderman, seen the rise of a Dark Knight, oh and there have been a few more expendables too. But what's next? Read More >>

Samsung has a tough time on its hands battling Apple over tablet patents. But in the process of fighting hard, it seems to have made some questionable calls when it comes to choosing evidence — including the use of sci-fi footage to prove its case. Read More >>

TVs can occasionally be troublesome beasties, leaving you stabbing in frustration at your remote. If it's anything like the Sonic Screwdriver it's modelled on though, this remote should be able to zap it into submission, while at the same time well and truly establishing you as a gold-plated nerd. Read More >>

Anyone who's watched a sci-fi movie, or is actually a proper scientist, will know that you don't just go prodding weird alien stuff -- it's simply a recipe for an excruciatingly painful disaster. But after watching this Weyland Corp training video it all makes perfect sense now. Read More >>