Hasta La Gadget!

If you are a big fan of the Star Wars franchise, I bet you have wondered in the past what it would be like to really stand in front of the Millennium Falcon or one of the other ships from the series. Short of building your own life-size version, these photos are about as close as you are likely to get.

The pics by artist Vesa Lehtimäki (aka “Avanaut“) use Star Wars models and clever photography tricks to make the toys look like they are real spaceships. I particularly like the one of the Falcon at night with the lights on around its perimeter. It reminds me of a mash up of ET and Star Wars a bit.

Be sure to head over to Avanaut’s flickr page to check out more of his images, as well as some of his cool poster art over on MightyMega.

[via Sploid via Nerd Approved]

These dice are proof that your board can live on long after you do your last Ollie. Your board will still be with you, you just won’t be riding it.

Each of these die is handmade by artist Andy Poole using various recycled skate decks and the result is a set of very unique and fashionable dice. Your friends won’t have dice like this. Imagine gliding by on your skateboard as you vanquish enemies in D&D. Now picture yourself doing a faceplant as you yell YAHTZEE!

Now you and your deck can have a whole new relationship. For $20(USD) you get a set of three dice. These make a great gift for your fellow skaters too.

[via This Is Why I’m Broke]

A few years ago we featured a harmonica crammed into a NES cartridge. YouTuber basami sentaku’s harmonica not only has a Famicom cartridge case, it produces 8-bit sound with the help of a sound chip from a NES. It also has a mode that plays the coin sound effect from Super Mario Bros. when you blow into it.

Watch basami sentaku and his friends play some chiptunes on the harmonica:

I’d love to hear non-video game music played on that. Basami sentaku-san, I’m sure you’d make a lot of chiptune fans happy if you started selling 8bit harmonicas.

[via Viral Viral Videos]

You may heard of Switzerland’s Giger Bar. They were put together by H.R. Giger, the artist best known for the incredible, but creepy designs for Ridley Scott’s Alien flicks. The bars mimic the style of those movies, but with alcohol. Too bad we don’t have something similar in the U.S. However, a Giger Bar could be coming our way.

Graphic designer Andy Davies wants to open a sci-fi themed hotel called… The Sci-Fi Hotel. It would combine a variety of classic sci-fi designs, but he wants a bar in it too of course. The property is being developed with the full permission and partnership of H.R. Giger, so it should be awesome.

As of now there is no definitive location that they have in mind, but apparently Seattle is near the top of the list, as well as New York, Chicago, San Francisco and New Orleans. Anywhere is good. Just build one here already!

[via Nerd Bastards]

Dice bags are basically the only purse a guy can ever get away with carrying. There are plenty of cool dice bags you can buy if you are into role-playing games, but try finding a Doctor Who themed dice bag. Well, that’s what we have here. A TARDIS D20 dice bag, decked out in police box blue.

This dice bag is made by Dice Bag Chick, who makes tons of different bags in a variety of shapes and sizes. Each is fully lined with a zipper and a corded strap that makes it perfect for your dice or whatever else you need to carry. Maybe miniatures.

It is only $45 from her Etsy shop, and it’s perfect for your next game of Dungeons and Daleks.

[via Geek X Girls via Nerd Approved]