Categories / Film and TV, Gadgets and Tech

More Star Wars gadgetry – the R2-D2 home telephone

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If the R2-D2 projector is a little out of your price range, you could always make the more modest purchase of an R2-D2 home telephone.

Thankfully you don’t have to pick up the entire unit to answer a call – one of the legs/runners unhooks as a standard handset – which gives you an idea of how big this is. Features include head spinning and flashing lights when a call comes in (or at the push of a button if you want to impress your friends), ring selection (standard, animation or R2-D2 noises), last number redial and volume control.

If you want one, it retails for £79.99.

Find out more at the Digitel website

Categories / Film and TV, Gadgets and Tech

Nikko R2-D2 projector available to order in Europe – in very limited numbers

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Remember the Nikko R2-D2 projector we featured a while back? It was Japan-only at the time, but now it’s been confirmed for Europe – but in very limited numbers.

Just 4,000 of these are being made available in Europe and you can pre-order now. For your money, you get a faithful R2-D2 reproduction that can project your favourite films or clips onto any wall or ceiling.  There’s a DVD/CD player built-in, as well as memory card slots, an iPod dock, light and sound effects and best of all, a  Millennium Falcon remote control.

Each one comes with a numbered certificate, but that originality comes at a price. It retails for 2799 Euros, which I make around £2,112. Sounds a lot – but this is surely a real collectable of the future.

Find out more at the Exclusive Star Wars website

Categories / Film and TV

Star Wars Mighty Muggs

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Is there any end to the long line of Star Wars-related merchandise? Obviously not – and here’s the latest batch – the Star Wars Mighty Muggs.

These cutesy designs are not ‘mugs’, but ‘Muggs’. Or in other words, these are not cups, buy vinyl toys, showing the Stars Wars characters in a new cartoon-like style and complete with appropriate weapons (were applicable).

Take your pick from Boba Fett, C-3PO, Chewbacca, Darth Maul, Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker, all six inches tall and all strictly limited edition (although how many, we’re not sure). The Muggs are £9.95 each.

Find out more at the Firebox website

Categories / Film and TV, Food and Drink

Star Wars R2-D2 pepper mill

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Not the first Star Wars-themed novelty we’ve feature and certainly not the last – but we still love this Star Wars R2-D2 pepper mill.

Standing just under five inches tall, this novelty droid has a twistable head to grind your peppercorns over your favourite food. Or failing that, you can just add it to the ever-growing collection of Star Wars novelties in the spare room.

Officially licensed and imported from Japan, it’s available to order online for $19.99, which is a very reasonable £10.

Find out more at the ThinkGeek website

Categories / Design and Interiors, Film and TV

Wizard of Oz alarm clock

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We’ll take a moment away from the high-brow fashion and design to go distinctly low-brow and kitsch – with this Wizard of Oz alarm clock.

Can an alarm clock get any cheesier? Unlikely when it has to compete with this stylised image of the characters on the face, not to mention the ‘Judy-style’ gingham print on the side. Oh yes – and it tells the time and gets you out of bed with loud ringing from those bells.

If all of that suits your beside, it’s available for £13.99.

Find out more at the Pussy Boutique website

Categories / Books, Design and Interiors, Film and TV

Coming in January: Royal Mail launches James Bond postage stamps

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It takes a lot to get me excited about postage stamps, but the Royal Mail’s James Bond stamp collection just about does it.

Unveiled today and available to buy and use from January 8th 2008, the James Bond collection marks the centenary of the birth of Bond creator Ian Fleming and includes six ‘extra-long’ stamps, each featuring different covers of six of his most famous Bond novels.

The two 1st Class stamps feature Fleming’s first novel Casino Royale (1953) and Dr No (the first novel to be filmed). The 54p stamps shows the covers of Goldfinger and Diamonds are Forever, while the final 78p pairing features For Your Eyes Only and From Russia with Love.

All can be ordered now as collector’s packs from the Royal Mail website.

Find out more at the Royal Mail website