To honour John Hughes, we've listed tech movies that give you all an excuse to sit down with a DVD or two and enjoy tech in the movies..

The Mayan prophecy might be counting down, but the science behind the new film 2012 might leave a few people confused. We look at what the film got right and what is best left to conspiracy theorists.

Only director Michael Bay could have made a film like Transformers: Revenge of the fallen. It's a head-ringing, ear-crunching and ultimately exhausting experience, filled with more than two hours of constant robot destruction.

From flying cars to hoverboards, and AI to lasers, we delve into 10 technologies from a list of iconic films and find out just how close we are to making each a reality

High-profile short films from around the world are now getting made on DSLR cameras, thanks to rapidly improving sensors and prices. Judge for yourself, with these five videos made with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II.

Bringing destruction to life on screen is a everyday job for the effects wizards behind the upcoming film 2012. In fact, the filmmakers produced a whopping million gigabytes of data

From movies and games to sporting events and even pornography, David Bayon explains why 3D displays are the next big thing.

The latest Avatar trailer takes a closer look at the battle tech behind the film - but we can't help compare it to James Cameron's Aliens in tone and style.

We attended the Sydney press conference of the upcoming blockbuster GI:Joe and learnt about their Twitter use, their feelings on Internet fanboys and the inspiration behind some of the military tech on display in the film

See the trailer for one of this year's promising science fiction movies, Moon, which takes cues from Odyssey 2001 and Solaris

The tantalizing prospect of another glimpse into Ridley Scott's 1979 science fiction world is in the cards, with reports of a Scott-directed prequel movie

Some absolute online gems for watching, streaming and discussing classic film and TV, blockbuster movies, and cult sci-fi.

Microsoft pulls a rabbit out of a hat with their new Natal Xbox motion controller, and we get flashbacks of Nintendo's Power Glove and shonky 90s virtual reality

Stuart Turton spends the second day of his one week odyssey with Linux, battling Fedora and DVD playback troubles, while trying valiantly not to go back to the relative 'safety' of Vista, as frustrations start to boil over.

Fujifilm's 3D camera promises 3D wonders on a budget, although we're still not sure if the concept is more than a gimmick

Taking a page out of the popular science fiction series, scientists have managed to turn aluminium into a new transparent form of matter, after it was placed under extreme ultraviolent radiation.

We wonder where Terry Gilliam would have taken his vision of IT hell in his now-abandoned creation, Zero Theorem.

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iiNet have been ordered to give up IP records of twenty file downloaders in the controversial court challenge between the Australian ISP and copyright group AFACT.

Can you imagine a time when computers didn't have GPUs? Here are graphics technologies that helped take computing out of the lab and into the hands of consumers and professionals