While Darth Vader might not really work amongst us, it’s funny to think of a dark lord of the Sith just going about his day, taking some calls and having a cup of joe. One can only assume he’s talking to Luke or Leia on the phone – probably asking the kids what they want for dinner tonight.

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The new gear includes the Beam Touch and the Photo Booth. Beam Touch lets the iPad user shoot their own photos and video over to a projector and allows them to control the content remotely. I would assume the projector in question is the one that Holocube uses for its hologram system.

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The other new product is the Photo Booth. This thing looks like an ATM and it lets users print out pictures they take on the spot and share them in a sort of real world social network.

The Photo Booth can also be connected to web applications so images captured could automatically post online.

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There is no word on when either of the products will be offered and they are both aimed at businesses not consumers.

This image, titled “In Training” was posted by Reddit user Vandalay797 and it shows a snow trooper taking a toy AT-AT for a walk. It reminds me of that AT-AT that was behaving like a dog, except Fido gets to go outside in a more appropriate climate. I like the fact that he used snow trooper uniform, as clone troopers wouldn’t have been as accurate.

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These images were created by Dan Saelinger for a Fortune Magazine story about the demise of a console. It doesn’t even look like these consoles had the dreaded Red Ring of Death before they were blown up.

In order to get the perfect image, they blew up 10 Xbox 360s and 8 controllers. Even if it was an expensive waste, the final shot is still pretty cool. This cool slow motion video captured during the shoot is definitely worth watching…

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[Dan Saelinger via Kotaku]

An artist named Sue Corke is creating a series of prints of lunar photos and the photos are scratch and sniff. She figures that since none of us will actually ever go to the moon, she would recreate the scent to fool the brain in to thinking of the moon each time we smell a burning match. Apparently, astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr. was involved in crafting the scent and NASA knows that the moon smells of burnt gunpowder.

The smell of a burnt match always makes me think of fireworks. Corke said, “I like the idea of creating a false memory. Smell, place and memory are very closely linked. No one who sniffs our postcard from the moon is ever likely to go there. Yet now I hope this is a smell, similar to a freshly struck match, which will always remind them of it.”

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Taken during the filming of Return of the Jedi, a young Carrie Fisher is seen chilling out and catching some rays in her famous Slave Leia getup along with her stunt double.

I’ve heard that at the same time, Jabba the Hutt was in his trailer having his hair done.

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Captured in the aisles of Comic-Con 2010 by Reuters photog Mike Blake.

[National Post via Geekolinks]

Nope, didn’t think so.

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Get a set of Photoshop CS4 Magnets at Meninos for only $25 (USD). And just like Adobe, you’ll probably have to pay a pretty penny to upgrade when the CS5 version comes out.

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There’s just something about LEGOs that is completely timeless. Even though it’s been years since I used the bricks, I still love anything that’s connected to them. When I first heard about the app, I had all of these strange fantasies about what it would actually be.

It turns out that it’s an app that turns photos in to LEGO brick mosaics. Initially, this sounds like something that’s got limited appeal, but I have to say that it looks like it’s fun to use.

I know that I’m a bit of a LEGO geek, so this app is right up my alley. Sure, you could just use a filter in Photoshop and get the same result, but this is on the fly on your iPhone! The results look pretty, but it’s a bit sad though that you can’t specify what kind of LEGO bricks should be used in the mosaic.

You can grab the LEGO Photo iPhone app here for the low price of… free.

[via Gizmodo]

Sony asked a number of us bloggers to snap photos using the camera’s unique sweep panorama feature – then enter them into a competition. The winner will get to send 10 of these wonderful little digital cameras to the school of their choice. If I end up winning, I’d like to pledge mine to Carl Schurz High School, a diverse public institution which emphasizes math, creative arts, science and technology right here in my neighborhood in Chicago.

So back to the camera… the WX1 can shoot seamless horizontal or vertical panoramas with a simple sweeping motion of the camera. As the camera is moved from side-to-side or up-and-down, it snaps numerous photos in rapid succesion and automatically stitches them together into a panorama. As an added bonus, this pocket-size 10-megapixel camera can also capture 720p HD video.

The  photo contest runs until December 18th, and the winning school will be awarded their prize on December 22nd. All you’ve got to do is head on over to the photo contest page over on we say, and vote for your favorite photos. I can’t tell you which ones are mine, but there are lots of cool panoramas up there already, and every vote you make will help a school get a welcome holiday gift.

The service is slated for North America sometime in the fall, but there’s no firm release date yet. It’ll be interesting to see whether or not we see any DSi marketing tied to this. With the DSi’s built-in photo editing, this could be a fair selling point.

[via Joystiq Nintendo]

The old instant cameras could print pics on the spot, but you had no way of viewing or editing the pictures prior to printing, an option that’s all too common nowadays in digital cameras. The PoGo combines the best of both worlds, which means you can shoot, preview, re-shoot if needed, edit and then print all from the same device.The PoGo can print up to 15 pictures on a fully charged battery, but you can also transfer your shots to a computer via USB so you can view or print on your PC later.

As you can see, the 5.0 megapixel PoGo is equipped with a 3.0″ LCD screen, where you can preview your photo and edit them if you wish. You can crop, remove red-eye, add borders and even print dates on your photos before you print them. It takes 40 seconds for a picture to be printed on the PoGo – not much different than waiting for a classic Polaroid to develop.

The PoGo prints pictures on a 2″x3″ heat-activated photo paper called Zink (short for Zero Ink). Zink paper is “smudge-proof, water-resistant, fade-resistant and tear-proof” and environment-friendly as well. The PoGo is available at Amazon for $199.95 (USD). Extra sheets of Zink paper are also $12.99 for a pack of 30.

It’s pretty obvious that’s an Xbox 360, but see if you can identify them all:

I’ll give you a clue. Look at the faint curved handle at the top. Yep, that’s a Gamecube.

Hmm, is that an NES or an SNES controller? You’ve got 2 seconds…

It amazes me how absolute empty the Atari 2600 case was compared to today’s consoles. Imagine how much better the graphics would have been if they’d actually filled the box with circuitry.

Contrast that to the jam-packed Sony PS3. There’s definitely not much room to wiggle inside that case:

This one is pretty self-evident. But is it a DS Lite, DS Phat or a DSi? And where are the cracked plastic hinges? Oh, they’re on my DS Lite.

I’m assuming that the guy who took these photos works as a radiologist, or maybe in airport security. Or maybe he’s just got X-ray vision and cameras implanted in his eyeballs. Yeah, I like that idea best.

I’ll leave the rest of the images up to you to figure out.

I’ll give you a hint. This is NOT a transistor radio or an 8-track player – or is it?

All I know is that this guy definitely isn’t a SEGA fan.

You can check out the complete X-Ray fun gallery over on Reintji’s Flickr album.

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Run down in the prime of his life, it’s unknown why Sonic was wandering around this parking lot in the North of England. Police report a that a number of golden rings were found scattered across the parking lot, fueling speculation that foul play was involved. The driver of the Opel Corsa couldn’t be located after the accident, but a rotund, egg-shaped man was seen fleeing from the scene carrying a briefcase full of emeralds.

[via UK Resistance]

You can either upload a picture or have a fresh one taken with your computer’s webcam. Of course you can always upload someone else’s face. After creating the image, FACEinHole even gives you the option to buy a white shirt with your created image printed on it. Neat.

They have a lot of ‘scenarios’ available, from movies to cartoon characters to the Jesus statue in Brazil.

You are free of course to put pictures of other body parts up there. Or anything that you have an image of. The Internet is a democracy. Anarchic democracy.

The whole thing seems slightly impractical to me – with only that much height, and blocks that can rotate to any angle – I think the game would be over really quickly for me. For now I’ll stick to Topple.

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Mario, as seen on the streets of New York City (on 23rd st between 10th and 11th). I have a funny feeling that whatever is down at the other end of those pipes is a lot less pleasant than the bowels of the Mushroom Kingdom.

[Wooster Collective via Digg]

Spotted on the streets of Lyon, France, where artists Benoit Deseille and Benedetto Bufalino transformed an old phone booth into an aquarium – complete with fish. Unfortunately, all of the calls just sound like blurble-blurble-blurble.

[via DesignZen]