Hasta La Gadget!

I never got a Star Wars themed room when I was growing up. These days are getting spoiled rotten with AT-ATs in their bedrooms. The joke is on them because when they get older they will not know how to sleep without such nerd trappings. Actually, I’m just jealous.

This bedroom was made by a friend of Reddit contributor mcalis2. It has a Millenium Falcon/X-Wing Fighter bedspread, an AT-AT on the shelf next to a Boba Fett head, a Wampa skin rug, even lightsabers on the wall.

This kid goes to sleep every night dreaming about a galaxy far far away, while the rest of us just listen to our mates snore and wish we had such an awesome bedroom.

[via Neatorama]

A dumpster-looking personal fortress of solitude where you can play games in total privacy? Count me in. “The Box” is a custom-built personal gaming chamber for those who have no friends and want none.

It’s for sale on Craigslist in Ohio. It has everything you could ever want in a gaming chamber: surround sound, air conditioning/heat, the smell of your own sweat and urine when you refuse to leave (or get locked in by others) as well as the smell of stale Cheetos and Mountain Dew.

It’s only $2500 (USD). Never be distracted again by “life”. No worries. Girls won’t find you in this thing and you will be doing all of them a favor by living in this thing.

[via Geekologie]

Every once in a while, I feel like being alone and that’s one of the times I feel extremely lucky and fortunate that we have a spare room in the house. Not that I’m a loner or anything, but I just like being able to get away from everyone and everything sometimes.

If I didn’t have a spare room to go to, then I’m sure something like the plastic-shelled Cocoon 1 would be totally up my alley. Although the price, not so much.

The Cocoon 1 is a piece of furniture that you can actually live in. It’s like the Cocoon Tent we saw earlier, only it’s made with a tough and clear material–and, well, it’s not a tent.

Designed by Swiss design group Micasa Lab, the Cocoon is cushy and roomy enough to let people sleep, eat, relax, and do whatever they want by their lonesome while they’re in it. The inside of the Cocoon is modular, so it can be configured as a living, working or even a cooking space. You can even get a Wi-Fi module for surfing the web inside of it.

The Cocoon 1 seems like a concept, but it’s actually an actual product that will be arriving sometime in Fall of 2013.

The only downside? The base model is priced at $2,990(USD), and goes up from there.

[Cocoon 1 via Yanko Design]

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