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Yaskawa Industrial robots have lightsaber duel

Shane McGlaun, May 12th 2011 Discuss [1]

There are some things in the geek world that you can't combine without having issues, like Batman and Jim Carrey for instance. There are other things that you can combine to form something that geeks will gravitate too like light to a black hole. Robots and lightsabers are one of the things that geeks will gravitate too. What you see here is an industrial robot recreation of one of the few redeeming qualities to the first of the new Star Wars flicks. Read The Full Story

Star Wars ads mock Microsoft Windows 7 Ads in epic manner

Shane McGlaun, Apr 11th 2011 Discuss [3]

I bet we have all seen those goofy ads that Microsoft uses to push Windows 7. The ads are designed to make you think that everyone had a hand in designing Windows 7 and shows supposedly real people in various settings as they had ideas for features that are in Windows 7 today. A geek has taken that commercial idea and made it much more entertaining than Microsoft was able to do. Read The Full Story

Lucasfilm taps Prime Focus to convert Phantom Menace to 3D

Shane McGlaun, Mar 30th 2011 Discuss [4]

By now, any fan of Star Wars will know that Lucasfilm is getting ready to start releasing the films again in theaters, but this time around, they will be in 3D. A company called Prime Focus has announced that Lucasfilm has tapped it to turn the flicks into 3D. Read The Full Story

Star Wars: Episode I the Phantom Menace gets 3D launch date

Shane McGlaun, Mar 4th 2011 Discuss [1]

Star Wars is hands down one of the most popular sci-fi franchise ever made. The original three films are my favorites, but there were some aspects of the three new films that were cool. I liked the red spiky dude with the light saber staff in The Phantom Menace for instance. You may recall that George Lucas had said he would be bringing the flicks back to theaters in 3D. Read The Full Story

Pint-size Vader from Super Bowl VW commercial unmasked

Shane McGlaun, Feb 7th 2011 Discuss [2]

It never ceases to amaze me that 364 days of the year I skip the commercials on my DVR as if they were the plague. When the Super Bowl comes around, I actually want to watch the commercials more than the game if the Cowboys don't make it, which is sadly generally the case. Last night there were some cool commercials during the game and two that stuck out for me were the pug kicking down the door to get Doritos and the little Darth Vader trying the Force on everything. Read The Full Story

George Lucas Mines Star Wars Movies for Last Scrap of Un-merchandised Content in “Frames”

Chris Burns, Jan 27th 2011 Discuss [4]

Just kidding, there's infinite content inside a universe that parallels our own, of course, and George Lucas will keep mining Star Wars until the end of time (even beyond his God-given human life.) Today there's a collection of Star Wars memorabilia unlike (to our knowledge) anything those people at the Star Wars camp have ever offered before. This is "Star Wars: Frames," a high-end celebration of exactly 1,416 frames from the 6 live-action Star Wars films. Every single one of these frames has supposedly been hand-picked by George Lucas himself, and each set comes hand-signed by big L as well. Read The Full Story

The Greatest 17 Seconds You’ll Ever Star Wars in the Snow

Chris Burns, Jan 20th 2011 Discuss [4]

I was really pumped up to find this particular video posted right up at the top of the official Star Wars blog (and yes, I am the only fellow on our whole crew who has such a feed in my reader,) right up there at the top, was a post called Minnesota Trench Run. I live in Minnesota, and this winter has been miraculously snowy, so it was a fabulously warm and fuzzy moment finding this clip. One guy, Mike Nelson, filmed the clip, and another guy, FX artist Aaron Dabelow added the X-Wing. Read The Full Story

Star Wars Posters Perfected in Every Way by Artist Tyler Stout

Chris Burns, Jan 18th 2011 Discuss [4]

When it comes to Star Wars, there's only a few ways you can go wrong. You can make life-sized plush animals (barring ewoks,) you can make terrible Christmas ornaments, and you can make a Star Wars Holiday Special. Of all the ways you can go right, it's an extremely difficult market to break into for movie posters. Everyone in the world who wants a poster either already has one or already has a favorite, and why would they grab a new one with more than 30 years of posters already having been released. Surely the craft has been perfected by now. But I say thee nay, perfection was not done in any of the past three decades, it was done now, by illustrator Tyler Stout. Read The Full Story

DIY Return of the Jedi Lightsaber makes you a real Jedi

Shane McGlaun, Jan 3rd 2011 Discuss [0]

We all know that the sign that your Jedi training is complete is when you are able to build your own lightsaber. That means that Bradley Lewis has to be a Jedi now that he has built an awesome DIY lightsaber using aluminum and copious amounts of geeky elbow grease. Read The Full Story

The Daily Slash: December 17 2010

Chris Burns, Dec 17th 2010 Discuss [0]

Behold! TRON: LEGACY in a full review by Philip! Don't like new movies? Perhaps you'd care for an Utterly Odd Assortment of Star Wars Props up for auction now? Eyeballs included! Oh dear! Did you not buy all your Christmas gifts yet? Have Avi Greengart help you out with a Last Minute, Non-Obvious Holiday Gift Guide! Or maybe you're all done and just want to World of Warcraft: Cataclysm free for ten days? Maybe you're a winner of a SlashGear Lenovo ThinkCentre M90z and you don't even know it! Nexus S in your pocket? Maybe you'd like some Optimized Kernel Voodoo? All this and MORE on The Daily Slash! Read The Full Story

Utterly Odd Assortment of Star Wars Props Offered Up for Auction

Chris Burns, Dec 17th 2010 Discuss [0]

Now, Star Wars items are bought and sold every day. When you've got a movie series whose whole existence is basically one giant advertisement for action figures, there's going to be lots of buying and selling going on. What's up on the block today? Some real rarities. Some real oddities, too, including a fantastically weird stash of items from Industrial Light and Magic's Phil Tippet (master puppeteer, all around cool dude.) The items up for auction are put up by Profiles in History, posted in this year's Hollywood Auction 43. Read The Full Story

Coloud R2-D2 Themed Headphones Available Now for $49.90

Evan Selleck, Dec 13th 2010 Discuss [0]

Coloud is a company that has grown notorious for making over-the-ear headphones interesting again, by not only providing some unique designs, but doing so with a sense of passion. While we've seen the company's take on Marvel Hero (and anti-hero)-themed headphones, the company must have felt it was time to dive into another franchise. And instead of just going the easy way, the company managed to give these new R2-D2 themed headphones that bit of attention to detail we've come to expect. Read The Full Story