If you got $5500 to spend and love Star Wars you might want to check out these cool life-size replicas of R2D2 and C3PO. Especially the C3PO looks really cool! I wish the price was $500 though… Life-size R2D2 replica [sideshowtoy.comge]

Traditional hard drives may be ready for museums faster than expected. Today Samsung announced that they have developed a new 64 Gigabit (Gb) multi level cell NAND flash memory chip – which basically means that the density of flash memories has doubled yet again, in other words you can expect to have at least 128 [...]

Here is a quite funny gallery of photos containing just wiring on acid. It is actually part 4 of a series called ‘Disturbing wiring‘ so if you like this one you can go on and check out part 1 or part 2. Disturbing wiring [darkroastedblend.com]

It looks like Apple has patented a complete solution for turning your future iPod or iPhone into a full blown lifestyle companion. The patent includes everything from training programs, training diary and tools for monitoring your health and taking care of your diet too. Interesting. iPhone. Your Lifestyle Companion [unwiredview.com]

I am a daily reader of a bunch of tech and gadget blogs (surprise!) including the two gadget blog giants Engadget & Gizmodo. Today Wired published a great article about the rivalry between the two blogs. A great read. Gear Blog Rivals Engadget and Gizmodo Turn the Competition Up to 11 [wired.com]

I thought that this desktop background featuring a cracked LCD display was funny. Enjoy. The size of the desktop background is 1680×1050. crack-desk.jpg via [digg] Here is a similar background.

Here is a nice little device that might come in handy if you need to charge your music player or any other USB powered device while in your car. Basically it is just a 4-port USB adapter that is powered through your cars 12 volt cigarette adapter. Useful. Recharge Up To Four USB Gadgets In [...]

Here is a T-shirt that will make you feel a bit like a super hero. The new shirt from Nihon Uni is made out of some kind of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene fiber that is supposed to protect you against stab wounds. It would be interesting to see if this one really works – I [...]

Modu mini phone just made it into the Guiness Book of World Records as the lightest mobile phone in the world. The phone weighs a mere 1.4 ounces / 39.7 grams. It is pretty ugly though! Feast your eyes on the the world’s lightest phone: Modu [Crunchgear]

Over at Washington Post you can read an interesting list of around 170 things on their way to obsolescence. When was the last time you used Carbon paper (you might not even know what it is?) or a floppy disk? Enjoyable list. Left behind [washingtonpost.com]