Hasta La Gadget!

Take one look at his handmade lightsabers and you immediately know that Roland Palotai is a talented craftsman and artist. These weapons are elegant yet simple, with some very nice attention to detail.

They are made from various metals and come with LEDs, switches, leather accents and other beautiful touches.

They are truly awesome, and I am simply in love with his work. It looks like prices for the props start around $500(USD).

If lightsabers aren’t your thing, how about an amazing 1/58 scale Millennium Falcon? I look at this stuff and I feel like a kid all over again. I wish I could afford all of his work. Head on over to Roland’s website to see more of his incredible creations.

[via Nerd Approved]

Too tired to read your child a bedtime story? Then let his or her pajamas do the work. This’ll only work if they’ve got the Smart PJs on, because all other jammies are presumably dumb and don’t have the embedded visual codes that make these pajamas so special.

The secret is all in the design. Or rather, on the secret dot codes integrated into the design on the pajamas. All parents have to do is download an app that’s compatible with both iOS and Android devices, and they’re good to go.

Smart PJs founder Juan Murdoch explained: “We purposely created Smart PJ’s with the scannable dot patterns all over them so that parents can help the child scan the stories on their backs where they can’t reach. We also put words to all the stories and animal information on the screen so that parents can turn off the volume and help the child learn to read the stories and words themselves.”

These interactive pajamas are available in four sizes for both little boys and girls and are currently priced at just $25(USD).

[via C|NET]

Some Iron Man fans are not too keen on his gold-heavy Mark XLII armor, but if you’re absolutely enamored with it Sideshow Collectibles has the ultimate item for you – a life-size replica of the suit.

The armor stands 85″ tall (about 7′) and weighs 105 lbs. It’s finished with automotive paint to give it a glossy look and it has LEDs on its eyes, arc reactor, palms and on the display base.

You’ll need Tony Stark’s wallet to get it, but I think we all expected that. You can pre-order it from Sideshow Collectibles for $8,500 (USD). I wonder if it could be modded into a wearable suit.

[via Kotaku]

Most Batman fans are happy to collect the comic books, watch the movies and display their action figures on a shelf. Not Chris Weir. Chris is too big a fan to be content with those things. He collects all that stuff, but he needed his own Batcave to put it all in.

So he did what any enterprising superfan would do – and made his own Batcave. It took him two years to build and cost over $150,000(USD) in renovation costs. He even chose the house specifically because it had enough basement space for his project.

Just like in the classic TVshow, he flips the head on the Shakespeare bust, pushes a button and a bookcase opens up.

The Batcave doubles as a home theater of course with a 120-inch Cinemascope screen and a Batman replica suit, among other goodies. Hey Chris, invite me over!

[via The Daily Record & Oddity Central via Neatorama]

The next time you travel to Vietnam, make sure you check out their 85 milion dollar fire-breathing dragon. An 85 million dollar glowing neon fire-breathing dragon, that is. It can breathe both fire and water.

Did I mention that it is also part of a bridge? The bridge spans the Han River in the port city of Da Nang. This color changing dragon lights up using 15,000 Philips LEDs.

Why can’t we have awesome bridges like this in the U.S.? Probably because all the LARPers would gather there and form a dragon-worshipping cult.

Also sword-wielding geeks would climb up on the head to get their picture taken. Check out the video to see the dragon in action.

[via Geekologie]