We’ve certainly been spoilt rotten with Star Wars gadgets of late and this latest bit of Star Wars memorabilia brings back fond memories of my old figurine collection (which I sold to Paul Parnaby for £40 about 25 years or so ago).

We’ve seen remote control R2D2 units before but this one is extra cool as it’s the size of the original collectors figure (they are action figures not dolls).

The R2 unit is controlled via a light sabre styled remote and can move forwards, spin round and even has a rotating head complete with operational (it lites up) LED eye. Think Geek rightly describe this as every Star Wars fanboy’s wet dream come true (well after Leigh in that bikini).

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I just thought this was kind of cool, the screwdriver lollipop, comes in apple, orange or cherry flavor.

Available from Atypyk for $4.46, that’s one expensive lick.

If you’ve ever had the pleasure of feeding a baby (well smearing food all over its face) you’ll be accustomed to the job of pretending the spoon of mushed brain is a train or plane. This next gadget makes your deceit a bit easier, the baby spoon plane.

Simply connect the wings and tail to the spoon and watch the food fly into your babies mouth, or all over the floor and surrounding furniture.

The baby spoon plane costs £5.99 (~$10.50).

If you thought DNA art was personal how’s this, foetal art, “This is a picture of my Sarah when she was aged minus 6 months”.

Your guests will certainly do a double take when you talk them through this piece of art! Simply send us your foetal baby scan and our team of designers will expertly create a spectacular art piece. Beautiful, original and definitely a family heirloom in the making. Something very different indeed.

You can get baby scan art from Boutique to you for £80.

Sure, you remember Watto, he owned a little boy you’d later know as Darth. He sold a hyperdrive to some guy named Qui-Gon Jinn. He had hooves,, yet he could fly (umm,, no one ever mentions how oxymoronic this is,, it’s like a vegetarian with teeth like the baddies from Alien!)

Anyway, there’s a place called Norton Sales Inc. that makes Watto’s look like a dump.

Wait,, I mean, that it’s a dump full of old space junk.

No wait,, by old, I mean fairly old. You know, if you need a replacement X-15 XLR99, because the one you were using is all ’sploded. Well now you’ve got the right place to go!

I’m pretty sure that the next time I head down south (probably for a wedding) I’ll be swinging by. Gadget destinations are typically pretty hard to come by, but when you find them,, well, you’ve just got to make the trip. Read the rest of this entry »

Got a special talent or ability? Apparently everyone does. It looks like more ordinary people with ordinary abilities have been discovered. Here’s a clip from the open auditions for the American Sci-Fi series Heroes on NBC.

The clip features some guy pulling a chain out of his nose (burn out), a woman playing the flute with her nose (don’t laugh, that’s someones mom), a guy who can pop beans out of his eye (that’s sexy), an Indian woman who can talk with a perfect Indian dialect (amazing!), a psycho who can stab a potato with a straw (very scary), and more…

I’m pretty sure no one from these open auditions will be saving the world with their “special” talents.

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If you ever wanted to do an inventory of all your cool (and not so cool) stuff then the Intelliscanner is just what you’ve been waiting for, your own personal barcode scanner.

With the Intelliscanner, you read the barcodes on the items you want to list and monitor and then upload them to your PC. The system comes with software for managing wine collections, home inventory, groceries, books, cds, dvds, comic books, etc. I can see it being useful for DVDs and things but do you really need to know how many cans of beans you’ve got in the cupboard (frozen pizzas maybe).

The Intelliscanner Mini is available at TG for $299.99 and if your comic collection is worth more than that you probably need it .