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 GB of storage in your iPhone in 2009.

Samsung promises 128GB flash drives by 2009 [tech.co.uk]

Here is the biggest ad space in Russia, but I think that it actually can be one of the biggest in the whole world. The cars you see in the background are full size cars, complete with lighting in the night. The advertiser is BMW and it is a promotion campaign for their new BMW M5. The ad is more than 6000 square meters big and it is located in Moscow.

The Biggest Ad Space in Russia [englishrussia.com]

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]

The fact that Apple is working on the 3G version of the iPhone is hardly news to anyone, but it might come as a surprise to some of us that we might get it as soon as June 2008. Macrumors has put together all the 3G rumors in one story.

The Evidence for a 3G iPhone… June 2008 [macrumors.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]

Photoshop Express is an exciting new web based product from Adobe. It is a flash based, light version of the popular (to say the least) image editing software Photoshop. It works pretty good and it is totally free. Don’t expect to find the same advanced functions as in the full-scale versions but it works better than I initially thought it would. Not too bad at all!

Adobe Photoshop Express [photoshop.com/express]

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 Your Car [OhGizmo!]