The voice is strong in this one!
Sunday, May 15th, 2005 at 2:19 am in Gadgets, Cool Stuff, Movies & TV
Scare small children by talking like the Dark Lord of the Sith.
The Star Wars merchandising scene is set to explode like the Death Star at the end of Return of the Jedi, pelting us with ultra-cool Wars gear that would make even Darth Maul toss his double-ended light saber in excitement. The Darth Vader voice-changing helmet makes the most high-pitched falsetto sound like the Dark Lord while a full-size cardboard cut-out of Anakin’s evil alter-ego is enough to put the creepers up any would-be burglar.
Fancy yourself as a real-life Jedi Knight? Get your mitts on a replica of Luke Skywalker’s light saber or, if you’re fed up siding with the good guys, try Darth’s neon red blade for size. If you haven’t got a galactic budget you can still feel The Force with a desktop character cut-out of a stormtrooper, Chewbecca, Darth Vader or Anakin and Obi-Wan duelling.
However you plan to celebrate the end of the Star Wars saga, Boys Stuff has the hottest selection of great Star Wars gear. Stop Sithing about, get yourself over there now!
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Everyone knows that the path to world domination begins with building a droid. At least we hope everybody realizes that. So get started today with the CanDroid, which includes seventeen pre-assembled and interchangeable parts allowing you to create and morph this mechanical desktop marvel. Candroid’s hinged jaw opens and closes to devour loose change, nuts, bolts or anything else that looks appealing.
And now, as they say, for something completely different. Good old Takara has come up with what we guarantee will be the big hit toy of 2005: the Kigumi virtual pet. No mere Tamagotchi, the Kigumi comes in several different costumes (work with us on this please) and can be yours for ¥2,500. Unusually, it’s operated with a stylus and looks something like a mini PDA dressed up in a furry suit. As for what it actually does, well, it plays games, attaches to bags (uh-huh), reacts to a ringing cellphone, and so on. Believe us�if you’re 10 years old, that lot sounds like paradise.
This Panny has a split personality - it’s a camera on one side and a phone on the other. But can it be either satisfactorily? It’s designed to appeal to fashionable folk, and naturally comes in three shades (silver, white and red). 
Playing computer games all day is no longer an excuse for being lardy. First of all, we had the Action Stick, which enabled you to physically kick out at opponents in fighting games, and now we get this pricey pedalling machine that hooks itself into racing games on your PS2. Pedalling cars around a track may seem a bit odd, but it works reasonably well in most titles. However, with some, such as Need For Speed Hot Pursuit, it just doesn’t work at all. We also weren’t impressed by the flimsy plastic casing. But the big problem is that it all feels a bit like going into McDonald’s and ordering a salad - just not natural.
Keep losing your CDs and DVDs because you can’t be bothered to put them back in their boxes when you’ve finished with them? If so, the Disc Stakka may be the answer. You load some software onto your PC, plug it into a USB port and then start feeding it up to 100 of your CDs and DVDs. Every time you slot in a disc, the software asks you to name it, so that when you need to retrieve one, you can just select it from a list and the machine will spit it back out. It’s easy to use and it works well, but on the other hand, it’s big and expensive, and we can’t help thinking it’d be more useful if it could actually play CDs and DVDs rather than just store them.
