Spin Master’s life-size BB-8 is too cute and too real

We all fell in love with Sphero's tiny BB-8 droid when it launched last year. But, after you finally saw The Force Awakens, maybe you found yourself wishing for something a bit... bigger? Spin Master has answered that desire at this year's Toy Fair w...

R2-D2 Dark Roast Edition makes your coffee astromech-style, puts brew into ‘homebrew’ (video)

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Has there been a gaping R2-D2-shaped hole in your gadget life ever since the Motorola Droid 2 R2-D2 Edition bowed out? The good crew at Instructables knows your plight and has designed the R2-D2 Dark Roast Edition to give your astromech desires an almost literal jolt of energy. The team's do-it-yourself project modifies a BUNN industrial coffee maker -- no slow-drip home unit here -- with a float valve and a generous mix of aluminum, brass, copper and steel welded on top. If you're particularly ambitious, you can even make R2 bleep his delight when you've got a fresh pot lined up. Constructing a Dark Roast Edition requires a good amount of electrical and metalworking savvy, but it might be worth your time while you wait for C-3PO to reach stores.

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R2-D2 Shorts for Showing off Your Ass-tromech

Summer is almost here, so it is time to crack out the shorts. But don’t just grab the first thing that falls out of your dresser. Paint up your own shorts like Tumblr blogger Productive Slacker did. Don’t believe the name. A slacker could not have made these awesome R2-D2 Shorts.
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Best Star Wars shorts ever. R2 is so awesome. You don’t see that prissy sidekick C-3PO with his own shorts, do you? Probably not a good idea, what with the whole “goldenrod” nickname and all. Great job Productive Slacker. They look awesome. Too bad she doesn’t make these to sell, she would make a ton of money.

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Hey, nice ass-tromech. A rump like that needs a restraining bolt. These shorts would be the butt of any joke. Okay, enough.

[via Geeks Are Sexy]