Hasta La Gadget!

Man I hated the prequels, but they had one thing going for them. Padmé Amidala was easy on the eyes – even if we didn’t get to see her in a scantily clad slave outfit like Princess Leia. But thanks to JVcustoms we now know what this would have looked like.

That’s right, it looks a lot like Leia’s body with Padme’s head. Because that is how this custom action figure was made.

This is all we really needed in the prequels. More of this please, and less Jar Jar. I have needs and one of them is to see sexy women chained to a giant slug. I don’t need to see some whiny kid slammed into his mother’s womb by midi-f-ing-chlorians. Only to crawl out and whine that he’s a slave, then do all kinds of stupid stuff to become the bad guy. There is no way that wimpy ass whiny little turd became Darth Vader. No way. Ok, I’m gonna stop now and just enjoy this figure. Clearly, I’m still working through some issues.

[via Obvious Winner]

Nobody likes to see children struck down by illness. Kids are innocent and don’t deserve things like that. It is enough to break your heart. But here is an uplifting story with a geeky twist. Stephanie Kaloi’s 4-year-old son recently went through surgery and came home with his knees immobilized, so he needed a walker.

A friend suggested that it looked a bit like an AT-AT. The rest, as they say is history. Comic artist Ben Dewey volunteered his skills. As a result, the walker now has AT-AT legs and a head. It even has a control panel featuring Darth Vader himself.

So instead of being sad, this kid “walked all around our living room firing lasers at us for nearly an hour without once being scared that the walker would cause him pain.” If that doesn’t make you smile, you have a heart of stone, my friends. He will need the walker for another three weeks, but will surely be very happy about it.

This story gets better. The walker ended up on Reddit’s Star Wars subreddit, which is no surprise. William Shatner himself chimed in by saying, “Very clever! I bet he loved it!” The Captain of the Star Trek universe approves! So now it is officially a crossover story.

[via C|NET]

For those of you who follow Technabob regularly, you might know we have another website, The Awesomer. Now, we’ve added a third site to our little family, a new science fiction website, called MightyMega.

MightyMega will be home to all things science fiction, from movies, to TV series, to collectibles and toys, to short films, books, props, costumes and anything else in the expansive realm of science fiction. In addition to fiction, we’ll be covering the real-world science that inspires science fiction, and the science fiction that inspires real-world science.

The site will be edited by my good friend Kenny Hoeschen, a man with a deep appreciation for all things science fiction, and a great sense of humor and wit.

Please stop by the MightyMega website and check it out. Expect numerous posts every day, so stop by frequently for new updates, or better yet, subscribe to the MightyMega RSS feed or daily email. You can also follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Futurama’s Bender is quite possibly the greatest robotic character in the history of television or the movies. Sure, there are more sophisticated robots like David in Prometheus, but none has made us guffaw as hard as the perpetually drunken, self-absorbed, belligerent, and conniving robot that is Bender Bending Rodriguez. It turns out that one man likes Bender so much that he turned him into a wood stove.

This bad-ass ‘bot was made by a guy going by the name of “Rob Halftroll”, cut from old gas bottles, welded together to form his torso, neck and head. Bender’s legs were fabricated from tube steel, and cylindrical bands of metal were used for his arms.

Clearly, there was plenty of bending (and welding) that went into the fabrication of the Bender stove, so it might have been nice to have an actual Bender robot to help with the construction.

Check out Halftroll’s full build log for the Bender wood stove here.

Okay guys, prepare to have your hearts won over by this female Doctor Who fan who has a sexy Doctor Who tattoo. The tattoo is of a garter holding a Sonic Screwdriver. After all, that really is the best place to hold your Sonic Screwdriver.

If you had said the words “Sonic Screwdriver tattoo” before I saw this image, I would have never imagined something so provocative. I wonder if all the female companions have one and we just didn’t know it.

Now I really want to see some girls wearing Slave Leia outfits with blasters tattooed on their leg. There is clearly a whole untapped area here of weapons that could be tattooed on one’s leg. I’ll be awaiting your submissions ladies.

[via Cheezburger via Fashionably Geek]