At first glance, your average Biggie verse doesn’t have much in common with Isaac Asimov. But when you look closer, the connections between hip hop and scifi really aren’t so hard to find… io9.com

If you thought giant robots and monsters appearing in Tokyo were only real in movies, then you would now be wrong. A life-sized statue of a Gundam, a giant robotic warrior suit, has been built in a park in Tokyo.

The Gundam statue is based on an extremely popular Japanese anime (cartoon) called Mobile Suit Gundam. The show, featuring large robotic warrior suits, first aired in April of 1979 and has since spawned numerous spin-offs and a franchise reportedly worth billions of Japanese yen…examiner.com

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Meet HRP-4C, a model who will be walking the runway in a Tokyo fashion show on March 23. Unlike most fashion models, she’s only five foot two. And her body is made of metal…jezebel.com

“If we had made the robot too similar to a real human, it would have been uncanny,” said one of the inventors, humanoid research leader Shuji Kajita. “We have deliberately leaned toward an anime style.”

One more sign of the pending robot armageddon, when flesh and blood supermodels are replaced with robot babes.

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Apparently the new i-limb system from Touch Bionics may need to be “scaled back” to be used by humans. The system is a robotic hand-arm combination for people missing all or part of their arms. One of its inventors admitted…io9.com

“The i-Limb system is better than a human arm. It is faster and can lift heavier weights than a human arm . . . A patient would have the potential to hurt themselves or other people with it, as it is actually better than a human arm. It could do damage”.

Oh, if  it was just this easy…

Honda is celebrating its 50th anniversary of doing business in the U.S. and the automaker is doing it in a major way:with a 49-foot-tall replica of its famous Asimo robot. The bipedal giant will serve as the company’s float during the Rose Parade in Pasadena, California on Jan. 1, complete with a jolly top hat and pimp-bot cane…feedly.com

Yeah,  pretty cool until the invaders pop out and take over the Rose Parade.

Pierre Cardin’s S/S and Autumn 2009 collections defy the boundaries of weirdness if such a thing is possible. The iconic 86-year-old designer showed his intergalactic and nondescript collection at his gorgeous southern France home… trendhunter.com

You may not be able to pilot a flying car like George Jetson , but you can rock the runway like his wife Jane.l

RIP, Forrest J Ackerman, the pioneering science fiction fan, editor and writer who coined the term “sci-fi,” founded Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine,  left the party on December 4, at 92, after a long illness of heart failure at home at the legendary Ackermansion in Los Feliz in Los Angeles…boingboing.net

It all began October 1926 when a little nine-year-old me was standing in front of a newsstand and the Hugo Gernsback magazine “Amazing Stories” jumped off the newsstand, grabbed hold of me and – most people are too young to know, but in those days magazines spoke – and that one said “take me home little boy. You will love me!” And everything grew from that.

The British are known for pushing the boundaries of underground art, but somehow they always manage to offer new surprises. The latest is a troop of pole dancing robots (yes, as in stripper) equipped with CCTV heads…feedly.com

Danger! Danger Will Robinson! Pole dancing robot strippers. And another career made obsolete by progress.

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