What starts as a bunch of friends hanging out and playing video games, very quickly descends into all out Jedi versus wizard warfare, as a lightsaber and magic wand duel it out in an epic battle that can only end in death. And blood. And some geeky references thrown in to LOTR for good measure.

This is a pretty rad sci-fi short based on the novel The Red Men by Matthew de Abaitua, which sees a futuristic London that’s patrolled by androids known as Dr. Easys who assist the police in calming and controlling situations and the public. This short from Shynola shows one of those Dr Easys in action [...]

The Matrix is, without doubt, one of the greatest movies ever made—and I will fight anyone in bullet time who says otherwise. But that doesn’t mean to say it hasn’t got its flaws and inconsistencies which CinemaSins are happy to point out in 12 minutes or less—and they point out 85 of these crimes against [...]

Don’t listen to all the naysayers who say that drones are bad and stuff, because drones are awesome—and they’re awesome because they’ll become our slaves who will do what we command of them, like carrying out important tasks such as taking a selfie…..and stalking your ex-girlfriend.

The recent episode of the PBS Off Book series looks at those dastardly machines that’ll rise up and overthrow us so that we have to send someone back in time to impregnate a woman from the 80s who will eventually give birth to our savior and then who knows what’ll happen. We’ll have to wait [...]

If you’ve seen series like Kirby Ferguson’s Everything is a Remix or, god forbid, you read a book or something crazy like that you’ll probably be aware that George Lucas soaked up and spat out a whole bunch of different influences for the original Star Wars trilogy. In this 15 minute short he, along with [...]

We live in an age of electronic gadgetry, where everyone carries around at least one device that digitally hooks them up to the world—ten years ago you couldn’t have predicted the smartphone, so what will the devices of the future hold?

It was the end of the 1970s, guitar music was on its way out and on its way in was a new type of music, influenced by sci-fi and Kraftwerk: synth pop! This pretty damn awesome documentary from the BBC follows the post-punk music makers whose god was the electronic sounds of the synthesiser.

Doc Brown and Tony Hawk try out the latest in antigravity skateboards from tech startup HUVr Tech—so does this mean the hoverboad we’ve all been awaiting since Back to the Future II is finally here? Well, that’s what Captain Gullible would believe, but what’s happening in the video above isn’t a new dawn of [...]

Poor Worf, here he is offering up advice and suggestions to his fellow crew members, only to just get shot down by them. He perseveres but it’s no good, he just faces rejections, denial, scorn, derision—it’s just constant humiliation from the people who are supposed to be his friends and colleagues. But thank God they [...]

Robots being integrated into human society on a day-to-day level is often the musings of science-fiction, but as robotics and AI become ever more advanced, we have to consider the ethical implications that arise from having robots as part of our communities and interacting with us. This PBS Off Book episode is an insightful and [...]