Darth Vader Archive

  • TomTom releases Star Wars GPS voices on the most appropriate day

    TomTom releases Star Wars GPS voices on the most appropriate day

    Darth Vader, C-3PO, Yoda, and Han Solo will soon yell at you for making a wrong turn and advise you to make the next legal U-turn on your TomTom device. The company just announced plans to out the voice options in Europe and, well, they are simply awesome. Right now Darth Vader is the only one available, but the other three will drop later this summer with C-3PO coming in June, Yoda in July, and Han Solo in August. It's too bad that the voices only seem to be available in Europe market, but maybe there are plans in the works to out them in the states as well. More importantly, may the fourth be with you and click through for Darth Vader's TomTom recording session. It's worth your time.

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  • Photo report: Darth Vader promotes DoCoMo cell phones in weird campaign

    Photo report: Darth Vader promotes DoCoMo cell phones in weird campaign

    NTT DoComo, Japan's largest cell phone carrier (55 million customers), is currently running a pretty bizarre viral promotion campaign in this country (both on- and offline). The company has set up a weird website [JP] that, for some strange reason, shows Darth Vader running around Tokyo and asking who's his boss ("Who is my boss" is the official tag line of the campaign).

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  • MIMOBOT series 5 Star Wars flash drives are coming

    MIMOBOT series 5 Star Wars flash drives are coming

    As you know, we here at CrunchGear pride ourselves on bringing you the latest and hottest information on novelty USB drives. Nicholas is particularly a fan. But more to the point, we know you are too. Which is why I’m here to tell you that MIMIBOT just announced their latest, the series 5 Star Wars [...]

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  • Video: There’s a lot going on in this Star Wars Adidas commercial

    Video: There’s a lot going on in this Star Wars Adidas commercial

    Star Wars sneakers from Adidas are coming. Fair enough. This new commercial features what looks like a scene from Indiana Jones at the very beginning, then we’ve got a random shot of Snoop Dogg, Darth Vader, and then Daft Punk looking at Darth Vader as if to say, “That guy stole our shiny helmet look.” [...]

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  • Build your own Death Star from the blueprints

    Build your own Death Star from the blueprints

    Now you can get the Death Star plans without having to depending on those Bothan spies. Some enterprising publishing company has licensed and released the penultimate Star Wars geek accessory: poster sized blueprints.

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  • Star Wars Lightsaber laser pointers make for an easy purchasing decision

    Star Wars Lightsaber laser pointers make for an easy purchasing decision

    As laser pointers go, you could do far worse than this little keychain Lightsaber. I mean think about it; if your job requires you to use a laser pointer, then you might as well have a cool one. And at $15, it's not like this is a huge monetary investment. As an investment in your social standing amongst your peers, though, this thing ought to pay off in spades.

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  • Darth Vader on the highway

    Darth Vader on the highway

    This is not the car he was driving. Despite cutting a impressive figure at 2.02 meters, having the finest weaponry and starfighters Imperial credits can buy, and controlling the Force, it seems that Darth Vader has gotten stuck on the side of the road. Dave Prowse was the physical form of Darth Vader for the original [...]

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  • These are the worst sci-fi costumes ever

    These are the worst sci-fi costumes ever

    You better act fast if you don't have a Halloween costume. I'm still debating mine: it's between being an Apple fanboy (dress up as an apple (with green trousers and shoes to keep it real), then wear a fan as a hat) or a death panel board member, which will play well in super liberal Manhattan. (Health care joke! Tip your waitress.) What you don't want to do, however, is dress up like any of these guys.

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  • Star Wars USB flash drives now available in Darth Vader, Ewok, and C-3PO flavors

    Star Wars USB flash drives now available in Darth Vader, Ewok, and C-3PO flavors

    star warsLook at these big-head Star Wars USB flash drives! They're adorable. Ewoks were always adorable, and C-3PO had a certain lovable charm but now even Darth Vader's getting in on the fun. He'll lull you into a false sense of security and then do that thing where he chokes you from across the room without actually touching you.

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  • Star Wars meets rice: Japanese company sells lightsaber chopsticks

    Star Wars meets rice: Japanese company sells lightsaber chopsticks

    If you happen to both be a Star Wars fan and have a penchant for Far Eastern food, this new gadget might be the right thing for you: lightsaber chopsticks. A Japanese company called Kotobukiya (which also has a US website) is selling three different models. The red version is aimed at Darth Vader fans for some reason, the green one is for Yoda fans and the blue model is supposedly the right one if you like Luke Skywalker best.

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  • Uncle Milton unleashes the Force

    Uncle Milton unleashes the Force

    As much I want the Force Trainer from Uncle Milton, the evil nerd in me would much rather have Darth Vader’s robotic arm instead! The Force Trainer is pretty straight forward based on the video, but the Vader Robotic Arm is so much more intriguing. A total of 45 “snap-together” parts comprise the fully functional robotic [...]

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  • Darth Vader clock: Know when it’s time to wake up alone

    Darth Vader clock: Know when it’s time to wake up alone

    It's only $32.99, it includes an auxiliary jack for your iPod, MP3, or CD player, and runs off wall power o one 9-volt battery. Sadly it's only available for pre-order right now, but heck, you're not doing anything until August anyway. Just order it and wait.

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  • Michael Jackson’s sad, sad toy barn

    Michael Jackson’s sad, sad toy barn

    These panoramas show the remains of MJ’s secret toy lair complete with C3-P0, Batman, and Darth Vader dolls along with some bikes, some Bruce Lee stuff, and a few lumpen Power Rangers. This is the detritus of an overgrown kid with attention disorder. It jumps from cool thing to cool thing and even includes an arcade [...]

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  • Lucas Arts announces Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron for PSP, DS

    Lucas Arts announces Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron for PSP, DS

    Shipping this Fall for the Sony PSP and Nintendo DS is Lucas Arts’ latest installment in the Star Wars Battlefront series, Elite Squadron. Players can now engage in battle on foot and then take to the skies to continue the fight with every shot fired affecting the outcome of each battle on every front. You’ll traverse [...]

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