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Inside Blade Runner 2049: Miniature Sets of Los Angeles by Weta Workshop

When catching a contemporary Hollywood movie like ‘Blade Runner 2049’ at the theater, it’s easy to assume nearly everything we see is CGI, but a new video from the famed Weta Workshop gives ...

Out of This World Architecture: 16 Real Buildings Inspired by Science Fiction

From a Star Wars-inspired house in South Korea to a blob-shaped 'friendly alien' museum in Austria, these structures make no attempts to hide the sci-fi sources of their inspiration. All 16 of ...

Taking Competition to New Heights: Skyscraper Dangles from an Asteroid

That tongue-in-cheek ‘world’s longest skyscraper’ design we highlighted last week seems totally reasonable compared to a new proposal taking the competition for the world’s tallest ...

Not So Sci-Fi: 12 Real Tech Innovations That Are Actually Pretty Creepy

Not so long ago, we made horror movies about invasive technology that was theoretical at the time, like RoboCop, Christine, Demon Seed and Videodrome. The 2002 sci-fi film Minority Report seemed ...

Wars Star: Street Art & Graffiti Tributes to Princess Leia

Star Wars character Princess Leia, played by the late Carrie Fisher, has been feted in street art and graffiti for a long time in countries far, far away. While spray-painted graffiti and, ...

Urban Dystopia: 11 Short Sci-Fi Films Set in Future Cities

The science fiction of the past thirty years has evolved beyond the midcentury's optimistic space-age visions into a darker, grittier place, where technology is out of control and resources are ...

Sci-Fi Skyscrapers: 14 Futuristic Visions for Vertical Cities

As the global population grows and the world's largest metropolises evolve into mega-cities, skyscrapers stretching higher than ever before could hold our transit hubs, parking garages, parks, ...

Alien Architecture: Surreal Cities for Future Worlds

Will the architecture of the distant future be recognizable to us based on what we have built up to this point in human history, or beyond what we’re able to conceive? Take a look at any ...

Livin’ in a Lair: 12 Villainous-Looking Futuristic Houses

Every one of these somewhat ominous-looking futuristic homes is just waiting for its big Hollywood break as the lair from which some supervillain hatches nefarious plans. In fact, some of them ...

Wearable Tech of the (Distant) Future: 13 Sci-Fi Suits

We're probably a century or two away from working mechanized exoskeletons modeled on the movements of crickets, but the great thing about digital concept art is there are no limits other than ...

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