Sci-Fi Cyberpunk Today: Big Dog by Boston Dynamics, robot technology in motion

Getting there Not a lot you can really say about this, although I do wonder how silent the thing is when yomping alongside a squad of infantry. Good pack mule, I guess. And definitely scores highly on the best impression of a drunk deer when kicked; but impressive recovery ability, all the same. . . [...]

Video Vault – The Max Headroom Show – 80s pop music vids: Season Two – episode 3

This is part of a collection of posts documenting the music videos aired on TV in the mid-80s by this fantastic icon of cyberpunk culture – Max Headroom. It’s a big nostalgia trip for me: hope you enjoy some of the vids too. The Max Headroom Show (1985) was a music video gig, with a [...]

Sci-Fi Cyberpunk Today ¦ astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson in deep contemplation of Earth from the ISS #wallpaper

Orbital colonist looks down on an old home This is an amazing image. Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson gazing upon the Earth from the dome of the International Space Station.  It really slams home how far this fleshy, hairy, aggressive species has come in the last century. I wonder if the increasingly rare trait of compassion [...]

Cyberpunk Photography and Fashion: Icon by Terrorcat

Part of a series of images from the liquid metal, carbo-plastic, hydrogel and permacrete core of visual creators on the Internet.  Images that stir my senses and evoke plots and concepts for what I’d like to see (or fear) in the future. Another simple yet striking image by Terrorcat. A fusion of industrial club culture [...]

Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Culture Today: Place Hackers ¦ Urban Explorers ¦ Roof-Worlders

Europe – place hacking “capital” of the world. . Europe. Structures of iron, steel and stone old enough to have begun the process of visible decay.  Such things exist in Russia and North America. It seems some of the International Place Hacking scene prefer Europe. Europe has a softer touch when it comes to any [...]

Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Today: Kolja Kugler, Berlin sculptor creates bass playing robot

Over recent months there’s been a signficant increase of media time focussing on new developments in bipedal (humanoid) robotics.  They’re definitely “just over the horizon” in terms of being commercially viable. Usually you see them gleaming under bright pin lights, all white carbo-plastic and synethic alloy components, a fusion of engineering and science-fiction design. But [...]

Sci-Fi Cyberpunk Technology – Today ¦ Wearable Heads-Up Display expands lifestyle options, sneak preview of Project Glass from Google [X]

This is a cool little video providing a visual portrayal of a concept that the smart folks at Google [X] group are working towards bringing into reality. Project Glass. . It’s not an earth-shattering piece of tech or a stratospherically original concept: i’ve been using it under the name of DVFrames (Data-Vision) in my Sci-Fi Cyberpunk [...]

Photography: a touch of silver and cyanide from the old world and a glimpse of the strange future

Esoteric meets Cyberpunk Here’s two images from Igor Vasiliadis (a photographer based in Moscow) that define the broad scope of his talents. The first image is steeped in old-world atmosphere and could be something from the realm of Brian Lumley’s Necroscope Wamphyri series – a Sunsider snapped in a rare moment of candour before night [...]

Tune of the day ¦ Music for cyberpunks – Reves Mecaniques by The Hacker (Michel Amato)

French electroclash and techno I bought this album by The Hacker (Michel Amato) back in the mid-noughties and it slotted into my cerebral cortex like a slice of carbo-plastic bio-soft. Immediate expansion of neural circuits and a flash-import of creative ideas to fuel the stories I write. There’s some stunning colabs with Miss Kitten (Caroline [...]

Dark Art ¦ Cthulhu Mythos Deep One or Cyberpunk Stealth Assassin – Photography by Danielle Tunstall

Part of a series of images from the liquid metal, carbo-plastic, hydrogel and permacrete core of visual creators on the Internet.  Images that stir my senses and evoke plots and concepts for what I’d like to see (or fear) in the future. Yet another gem from the seriously talented (and twisted) eye of Danielle Tunstall. [...]

Sci-fi Cyberpunk Culture today: Cosmetic Neuroscience – the art of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

I remember in the late 1990s the consumer market going nuts over the seemingly sudden availability of affordable mobile phones.  People were walking around with these things clamped to the side of their head and everyone was making parallels to Star Trek  and the Communicators used by Kirk and his crew; it was as if [...]

Sci-fi Cyberpunk #Wallpaper – Eye Candy by Miki MessedUp

Part of a series of images from the liquid metal, carbo-plastic, hydrogel and permacrete core of visual creators on the Internet.  Images that stir my senses and evoke plots and concepts for what I’d like to see (or fear) in the future. This is a simple yet visually stunning piece of “wallpaper” art from MikiMessedUp [...]

Sci-fi Cyberpunk Fashion or Surreal Cthulhu Mythos manifestation – photography by Iain Crawford

Liquid Cool Part of a series of images from the liquid metal, carbo-plastic, hydrogel and permacrete core of visual creators on the Internet.  Images that stir my senses and evoke plots and concepts for what I’d like to see (or fear) in the future. I like this image. It conjures up ideas of some futuristic [...]

Video: autonomous nanobots capable of agile flight – a portent of future combat and surveillance technology

Sci-fi & Cyberpunk Future – Today This is an informative little video showing experiments using nano quadrotors (developed by KMel Robotics) at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania.  It gets a little surreal and unnerving near the end when you consider that in only a few years these swarms are going to be out on [...]

Sci-fi Cyberpunk #Wallpaper – holographic smoke by Strukt Studios – Austria

Holographic Smoke Part of a series of images from the liquid metal, carbo-plastic, hydrogel and permacrete core of visual creators on the Internet.  Images that stir my senses and evoke plots and concepts for what I’d like to see (or fear) in the future. This is a simple yet visually stunning piece of “wallpaper” art [...]

Cyberpunk art ¦ future fashion or post-apocalyptic decadence – photography by Danil Golovkin

Part of a series of images from the liquid metal, carbo-plastic, hydrogel and permacrete core of visual creators on the Internet.  Images that stir my senses and evoke plots and concepts for what I’d like to see (or fear) in the future. Danil Golovkin is a Russian fashion photographer who has a spectacular eye for [...]

Science fiction short film: H.E.N.R.I. 2.0

An interesting little find. Eli Sasich has put together a crew and set and already completed this short science-fiction film – according to promotional material. He’s been looking for $20K funding to give the film the best post-production possible, and it looks like he’s reached this target and he’s now in the hell of delivery [...]

Sci-fi Art – Photography: Cyberspace Avatar by Betsy Vanlangen

Cyberspace Avatar Part of a series of images from the liquid metal, carbo-plastic, hydrogel and permacrete core of visual creators on the Internet.  Images that stir my senses and evoke plots and concepts for what I’d like to see (or fear) in the future. This is a great photograph – one of many visually stunning [...]

Photography: techno cyberpunk fashion and imagery – Toxic Bride by The Terrorcat

Part of a series of images from the liquid metal, carbo-plastic, hydrogel and permacrete core of visual creators on the Internet.  Images that stir my senses and evoke plots and concepts for what I’d like to see (or fear) in the future. . Another great image from Terrorcat.  Techno rave culture meets the potential of [...]

Sci-fi Art: Cyborg #wallpaper – Under Construction, by Benedict Campbell

Part of a series of images from the liquid metal, carbo-plastic, hydrogel and permacrete core of visual creators on the Internet.  Images that stir my senses and evoke plots and concepts for what I’d like to see (or fear) in the future. Yet another brilliant piece of digital art by Benedict Campell. Sums up the [...]