Today Show gets Ewok-Rolled

Ok, so this doesn't have anything to do with gaming. It's nerd based so it's good enough for me. And seeing these allegedly drunk Ewoks hamming it up on live TV must be seen. Enjoy.



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Darth Vader Sensor Bar

Star Wars, you've had a death grip on the wallet of nerds world-wide for the past 30+ years. Next up for the die-hards to purchase is the Darth Vader Nintendo Wii Sensor Bar Holder. The website claims it's "sculpture-quality", and at $50 it better be, because that price doesn't even include a Wii Sensor Bar, you have to supply your own. But haven't you always wanted a 'waist-up' Darth Vader that you can set on top of your TV? Now you can, and it even will serve a purpose other than scaring off members of the opposite sex that the force is not with.

It's a pre-order item, you'll have to wait until November to get your Vader on.

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R2-D2 is stuck in the past

Popular Science reader Brian De Vitis has a thing for Star Wars, and a thing for retro gaming. He took these two interests and mashed them together with some engineering skills and this is what he got. It's a R2-D2 shaped cooler, modded to include 8 game consoles, a sound system and a projector mounted in R2's head. Awesome.

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