Hasta La Gadget!

These amazing R2-D2-themed cans are clearly the headphones you’re looking for. Fashioned in the currently popular (and always comfortable) padded-earpiece-and-headband style, the two ear-cups are tiny replicas of R2-D2’s dome. It’s like your head was a double-sided X-Wing fighter and somebody stuffed a pair of R2s into your ear-holes.

I’d list the specs here, but as we now know, gadget specs are bullshit, and these headphones are almost identical to any others you’d get for the asking price of $50 (or 37 euros). One thing that is worth noting, however, is that the cable contains an inline remote with a mic, for controlling and talking on your phone.

There are other headphones in this Star-Wars themed line, but none is as perfectly conceived as this: They’re all just flat-sided with different prints and color schemes (although the Boba Fett pair is, predictably, pretty bad-ass).

So we are now led to the inevitable. What could possibly top this perfectly formed design? What about a pair of Princess Leia ‘phones? Surely it can’t be hard to take a mold from a pair of Danish pastries, or even to twirl real fake hair over the ear pieces?

R2-D2 headphones [Coloud]

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• Sad: R2-D2 Becomes a Children's Aquarium
• Life Sized C3P0 and R2D2 Replicas
• Rebel Assault with a Deadly Pepper: R2-D2 Pepper Mill

Now that you’re familiar with the general home automation scene (read that first if you haven’t) we can talk specifics. Like the Control4 system. More »

Twenty years ago, Maryland horse farrier Martin Kenny made an unusual discovery in an excavation site where workers were erecting a new barn. He had found what appeared to be a six inch long stone penis.

Kenny reached out to several academic installations regarding the long-buried handcrafted phallus to see if they might be interested in the discovery. “I’ve written to the Smithsonian and never got anything
back from them,” he told LiveScience.com. “I wrote and said I found this stone penis,
and I’m sure someone would appreciate being able to look into this thing.”

But for some reason, no one was interested in Kenny’s stone penis. And so the phallus remained stored in a drawer for almost two decades.

However, Kenny recently got the idea to send photos of the object to archaeologist and blogger Dr. Martin Rundkvist after reading a post by the Dr. about what appeared to be another ancient carved penis discovered in Sweden over the summer.

Rundkvist contacted Kenny, confirming the find could very well be of academic interest. He wrote about the phallus in a post titled “Another Ancient Dildo” where he commented “It’s made of sandstone or a similar rock, and to my eye it’s pretty
clearly modified by human hands, though it may have originated as a
fossil cavity of some ancient mollusk.”

After all these years, this long-ignored penis may finally get the attention it deserves.

Happy Monday, everybody!

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