You might think that making your own Boba Fett lamp would be expensive. Not so. You don’t have to spend a lot of money to have a good looking bounty hunter lamp.
Major League Mods came up with this awesome Boba Fett helmet lamp that can be easily built from cheap parts. In fact, it’s almost all stuff you can find at a thift store. The only thing that can’t befound at a thrift store is the RGB remote LED light bulb – unless you have some really cool thrift stores in your neighborhood.
You can see the entire build over at Instructables. After some hard work, you will have yourself an awesome Boba Fett helmet that lights up like a Mandalorian angel. Lamps don’t get better than this.
If you’re all about the next Star Trek movie “Into Darkness”, you’ll be more than pumped up about the newest full trailer, stacked to the brim with no fewer explosions than you’ll need to blow your eardrums out. What we’re still not sure of is who this enemy of our friendly protagonists is. What we ARE sure of is the fact that, whether or not we’ve heard of this bad guy before, we’ll be flipping out over the awesome crash of first-generation Federation ship into the sea and up against the shore of what we’re pretty sure is London, England.
If you’re a fan of the original Star Trek television series, you’ll perhaps have been guessing at the idea that the antagonist for this film was going to be Khan. The man who launched a thousand memes. But consider this: we’re in a completely alternate timeline now – an alternate dimension, if you wish – where the Enterprise crew hasn’t necessarily even found the frozen crew of ultra-beings from whens Khan came.
Does that rule out the idea that Khan will make another appearance here in this film? Not necessarily. But it’s much more likely that the team behind this installment of the Star Trek franchise will opt for another brand new enemy to our best buddies Kirk, Spock, Uhura, and the rest. Here we’ll quite likely find that Benedict Cumberbatch – the actor you’re seeing acting quite mean in this and the other trailers – ends up being a brand new character altogether.
Fun Fact: you’ll also see Peter Weller standing up about 35 seconds into the trailer. That’s Robocop, just so you’re aware. He was also in several episodes of the television show Star Trek: Enterprise as a Terran supremacist – certainly not reprising that role here.
Have a peek at our timeline of Star Trek excellence below and get ready for the big jump – May 16th Internationally and May 17th here in the USA!
Hide your droids and your money. Here comes one of those pesky Jawas. Oh wait, this cute little guy is just a birthday cake. Isn’t he adorable? At least this guy won’t try to swindle you and try to sell you a droid with a bad motivator.
Flickr contributor Fat Tony’s wife baked this Jawa birthday cake for their friend’s daughter’s birthday. I can see how he got the name, if this is the kind of thing that his wife bakes. I would be fat too.
This chocolate cake is enrobed in chocolate fondant has light up eyes made from mini party light LEDs bought from the craft store. At least your droids would be safe with this guy, though your waistline might not be.
Yes, the Borg is a hive mind entity. But even so, there must be some mastermind behind the hive mind. Who could have orchestrated the attack at Wolf 359? Who is powerful enough to lead the Borg? It can only be one being. Jedi Master Yoda.
Futile, Resistance is. This Star Wars/Star Trek tattoo mashup was inked by Tara Quinn from Texas. Strangely, Yoda doesn’t look all that happy about being part of the collective. They must have caught him by surprise and used his powers to coordinate the entire Borg collective and make them smarter.
Judge me by my tatt do you? I knew that the Borg must have had help.
Doctor Who has been around for half a century now. And many of the earliest episodes were lost or destroyed early in its history. The fourth episode of “The Tenth Planet,” a story featuring the first regeneration to the second Doctor, was lost in the 1970s. All that was left was a short clip of the regeneration. Now technology saves the day.
To the delight of fans everywhere, Planet 55 Studios is re-creating the lost episode in an animated format. They have been working on it for two years, and now they have released the first clip. In it you can see the regeneration scene and it looks pretty great.
I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to see more.
With a whole slew of new Star Wars movies on the way, it’s only a matter of time before a whole new round of Star Wars merch will start showing up in shops and fast food chains. Here’s one idea I think that 7-Eleven needs to take and run with right away.
That’s no drink lid. It’s a space station! Dave Delisle of Dave’s Geeky Ideas came up with the all-too-perfect idea to make a Death Star Slurpee (or slushee) lid. The cup even comes with a special crazy straw shaped like the Death Star’s deadly weapon, as it blasts Alderaan (and your thirst) to smithereens. Now all we need is to drill a mouth-hole in Vader’s helmet, and he’ll be all set to enjoy some delicious cherry slush.
Dave needs to hook up with the licensing powers-that-be at LucasFilm and 7-Eleven to bring this to market. I can’t imagine a better way to gulp down a Slurpee.
I wonder if Darth Vader gets brain freeze if he drinks them too quickly, or if all of his life-support systems make that unpleasant sensation a thing of the past.
This Millennium Falcon sled probably won’t do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, but if there is snow, this ship has got it where it counts. Sean Murray built this awesome sled for an office event – and also for his Star Wars loving daughter to enjoy.
Each year, Sean’s job holds a Winter carnival where each section forms a team and selects a theme. So he put a team together and chose Star Wars. One of the events was a human dogsled race – and what better ship for a dogsled race than the Falcon? After all, Chewbacca was inspired by an Alaskan Malamute, a dog best know for its ability to pull a sled.
The Falcon sled is made entirely of cardboard and mounted to a plastic toboggan. While the cardboard might not hold up to snow as well as the mass-produced Falcon sled, this one is way cooler, plus it’s a great way to get around Hoth.
Well done Sean. It would be fun to see two kids inside dressed like Han and Chewie.
Blizzard Entertainment has announced that an expansion pack for StarCraft II is now available. The expansion pack is called StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm. The expansion pack follows the arrival of Kerrigan and her brood as she aims to destroy Arcturus Mengsk.
The expansion pack is available in retail stores around the U.S., Canada, Europe, and a number of other countries. Blizzard says that the expansion pack will launch in mainland China at a later date. The expansion pack is available for Windows and Macintosh computers for $39.99(USD). A download version is also available for the same price.
A Digital Deluxe version is also available for download for $59.99(USD) and includes a StarCraft II Torrasque, portraits and decals, a World of Warcraft in-game pet, and Diablo III Blade Wings and Banner Sigil. In retail stores, a Collector’s Edition that includes digital and physical bonus items is available for $79.99. The physical bonus items include a hardcover art book, behind-the-scenes DVD, and a soundtrack.
If you’ve been reading Technabob for any period of time, you know that I have a love for Doctor Who. I also have a terrible sweet tooth. So I’m a real sucker for things which cross those two streams. Take, for example, these TARDIS cake pops.
Yes, I know they’re not the most technically-accurate blue police boxes you’ve ever seen, but they probably got a bit timey-wimey and wibbley-wobbley traveling across time and space from their baker’s oven.
They’re handmade made by Brittney of BeSweets and a set of 10 TARDIS cake pops costs just $18(USD) – which really isn’t bad given all the work that must go into making each of these pops. You can even choose from 22 different cake flavors, each coated with white (blue?) chocolate. While you’re over there, pick up some TARDIS oreos to go with. What, no Jammie Dodgers?
Google has rolled out another of its homepage doodles, celebrating the birthday of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams with an interactive gizmo on its UK site. The doodle simply cries out to be clicked on, with different parts of the animation reacting to your mouse and bringing up characters and other elements that fans will recognize from the much-loved books.
So, click on the door on the left, and you’ll find Marvin the paranoid android waiting, while the “Don’t Panic” control calls up a brief Babel Fish animation. Adams addressed the problem of thousands of interplanetary languages in his most famous book with a living translator, resembling a fish, that when inserted into the ear could convert any speech to something the wearer would understand.
Hitchhiker’s Guide isn’t the only work of Adams’ to be referenced, however. The cup of tea is a nod to the Dirk Gently series, for instance, more specifically the second novel, The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul.
Adams died in 2001, having not only written best-selling novels but Doctor Who scripts, and was known for his love of technology as well as his staunch atheism which earned him a dedication from notorious biologist and God-arguer Richard Dawkins. There’s more on Adams at his Wikipedia page.
This is site is run by Sascha Endlicher, M.A., during ungodly late night hours. Wanna know more about him? Connect via Social Media by jumping to about.me/sascha.endlicher.
