The cosplayer was part of a crew of Ghostbusters, but he stood out from the crowd of Venkman, Stantz and Spengler as much as Ernie Hudson did in the original movie. Apparently, the pack took about six months to make and weighs about 45 pounds. It lights up and even needs a bit of calibration between ghostbusting sessions.

I don’t know if the the real Ghostbusters would be that impressed, but cosplayers everywhere are loving it.

[via DVice]

This Hello Kitty Boba Fett t-shirt is perfect for the geekette with style, trying to showcase some humor with her love for cuteness and Star Wars. You can still be girly, but not afraid of using the Dark Side of the Force when needed. And if Boba Fett isn’t your cup of tea, then there’s always Hello Stormtrooper!

These t-shirts are available at Sandbox Clothing’s Etsy store for $20. You’ll find a few other Star Wars-inspired garb there, like this R2-D2 onesie for your tot.

[Etsy via GeekAlerts]

Well, it turns out that Hello Kitty Darth Vader is a Photoshopped fake, made by Count Dookie for  The Dented Helmet. He actually calls it the Sanrio Vader and I have to say that it’s not very scary.

On a related note, another member of The Dented Helmet has completed a real white Darth Vader costume. I don’t know what to think of that, to be honest. It’s not bad-looking, but it’s almost blasphemous.

How can you be on the Dark Side of the Force, and be wearing white?

[via Boing Boing]

The “I love you” on the rusty chainsaw bar is just priceless.

[via Topless Robot]

This new version of the Hello Kitty TV was announced last week and it’s hard to believe, but it’s even cuter than the older models I’ve seen. Also, this new Hello Kitty TV comes with a 13.3-inch LCD screen.

This new device is made by the Japanese company Dynaconnective and has 1,280 × 800 resolution, 500:1 contrast ratio, 16ms response time, and a pair of 3W stereo speakers. To us, it looks pretty portable, so that you can entertain your young ones pretty much anywhere.

Naturally, the TV can show your favorite Kitty’s face in the background. It also comes with a cute remote control that’s shaped like Hello Kitty’s ribbon. It will start selling in Japan on December 24th for approximately $560 (USD). That’s a bit steep! Unfortunately, it’s not suited for anywhere but Japan, since it’s optimized for the Japanese TV system and has Japanese menus, but we’re sure that this cute TV will be exported soon enough.

[via CrunchGear]

At first glance, this seems to be from the uncomfortable-controls school of gaming accessories, but it looks like all the trim and flounce is limited to the top of the case, which means that for most games, only people unfortunate enough to be standing in front of you are at risk from gem-induced blindness. Playing a few DS games might get uncomfortable, though; anytime you’ve got to turn that bad boy sideways, your fingers are going to hate you.

But hey! The overall effect looks good; everything is carefully placed and affixed, and at first glance, this looks like a retail case–but it was all hand-decorated.

It’s Hello Kitty wearing a Hello Kitty suit. Either that or it’s a Hello Kitty monster with Hello Kitty’s head in its mouth. Either way this needs less kittens. Fortunately there are other, less mind-boggling designs.

You can buy the Hello Kitty MIMOBOT flash drives at mimoco’s online shop. The 2 GB flash drive sells for $25 (USD), the 4 GB sells for $35, and the 8 GB sells for $50. I’ll wait for the Keyboard Cat MIMOBOT.

[via Josh Spear]

Pretty impressive papercraft on the face… and even moreso when you realize that the accessories–the hats, the bows–are all individual pieces. Move ‘em around as you will. But leave the mustaches alone.

If you are braver than I, and less apt to get papercuts, you can download the templates for these projects and give ‘em a try yourself.

[Nintendo Papercraft via Tiny Cartridge]

The netbook was able to provide decent performance, from normal web surfing while data was being transferred in the background, as well as opening 400 pictures in Bridge, and even editing in Photoshop CS3 despite the fact that the little guy only had a 1.6 Ghz Atom CPU, 1 Gb of RAM, and a couple of Hello Kitty stickers. Don’t believe me? See for yourself!

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You can skip to 5:40 for the Bridge and Photoshop action, but if you watch the start of the video you’ll see that the set-up isn’t perfect; HD and Flash HD streaming videos are basically reduced to slideshows. Can’t have everything I guess. But still, the fact that Windows 7 beta runs perfectly well on such weak specs is really good news. I’ll be bootcamping 7 for sure. Unless of course Snow Leopard is better. I think Apple should capitalize on this kind of free publicity and have a 10.6 beta version released, even if it’s just closed beta.