star wars

Great Christmas gadgets under £100

Crave These attachments for the Nintendo Wii come in blue and red, glow bright enough to be seen in daylight and work a treat with Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Christmas isn't just about family arguments, bad Cliff Richard records and improbable plot...

11 November 2008, 16:50

Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO pics revealed

Crave LucasArts and BioWare announced yesterday their forthcoming massively multiplayer online game, Star Wars: The Old Republic. The game takes place chronologically about 300 years after the previous Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic franchise and...

22 October 2008, 10:07

Geek sweets: Satisfy your nerdy candy cravings

Crave Behold the R2D2 giant Pez dispenser (£25), a Holy Grail for Pez and Star Wars fans alike. If you find yourself torn between spending your hard-earned on new technology and frittering the cash on scrumptious sweets instead, we might have the answer...

26 June 2008, 16:36

Mitsubishi launches 3D TV

Crave At a recent press conference, Mitsubishi showed off Star Wars: Episode II, light sabers and all blazing across the screen with a noticeable amount of depth. Our entertainment systems have evolved from black and white to colour, from fuzzy 576i to...

Tags: inch, models, star wars, glasses

24 June 2008, 10:24

Does not compute: The 10 most annoying kid + robot team-ups

Crave Boxey and Muffett the daggett (Battlestar Galactica)The original Battlestar Galactica was often denigrated as a Star Wars clone, its rebel good guys, armoured bad guys and feathered haircuts appearing hard on the heels of George Lucas' meisterwork.

21 April 2008, 16:48

Where's my hoverboard? And other movie tech we want now

Crave According to the official Star Wars databank, "at the press of a button the energy contained within is liberated and forms as a shaft of pure energy about a meter long". Lightsaber from Star WarsKnife, torch, wound cauteriser, soup warmer, skeleton...

19 February 2008, 14:24

Panasonic DMR-EX98V: VHS lives on

Crave While most of the world has upgraded to DVD, there's someone out there who is refusing to pay for another copy of Star Wars. There's got to be someone left with some VHS tapes. If that's you, then Panasonic has a product it thinks you might be...

Tags: panasonic, hard drive, footage, tapes

15 February 2008, 11:02

Apple and 20th Century Fox: Free iTunes copy of your movie

Crave You buy a DVD from Fox, the first of which is the Family Guy Star Wars parody, and on the disc is an iTunes-compatible file. When you buy a CD you can generally rip it to your hard drive with minimal effort.

Tags: apple

16 January 2008, 11:20

Nikko R2-D2 projector to go on sale: Beep boop woooo

Crave It's a home cinema system in a box that just so happens to look like everyone's favourite Star Wars character, R2-D2. This is what CES is all about. Forget your fancy big TVs, your Lamborghini laptops and the Bill Gates keynote.

9 January 2008, 5:52

Christmas gift guide: Great presents from £15 to £150

Crave These Star Wars USB memory keys make for ideal stocking fillers. They've got 1GB of storage and come pre-loaded with various Star Wars nuggets like wallpapers, soundbites and videos. Star Wars Mimobots, from Firebox Luke, I know what you're getting...

11 December 2007, 16:02

Top ten Internet memes

Crave The Star Wars Kid A 14-year-old French Canadian student decided one day to pick up a golf ball retriever and pretend, on camera, that it was a Star Wars lightsaber. That may explain why Star Wars Kid's family filed a class-action lawsuit against...

9 November 2007, 8:00

Photos: Inside Mac OS X Leopard

Crave Wars hologram' effect didn't make into the Leopard final cut. Sadly, the anticipated 'Star The toolbar on the top of the screen has also been made slightly transparent to give you a peek at the desktop background beneath.

30 October 2007, 16:08

Casio Exilim Zoom EX-Z77: We're ready for our close-up

Crave We'll be filming ourselves acting out Star Wars Kid in no time. Just what is it that makes the Casio Exilim Zoom EX-Z77 the coolest camera on the block? YouTube! It shoots your videos in the MPEG-4 H.264 format, optimised to YouTube-friendly size...

Tags: casio, gadgets, youtube, zoom

3 August 2007, 11:27

Keychain Lightsaber for the nerd at heart

Crave Just to mix things up, Gizmodo says, ThinkGeek also offers a range of weapons that span the Star Wars series, from Han's Blaster (original movie) to Anakin's Saber (prequel). Crave US: We have to admire the gumption of those who proudly display...

Tags: star wars, mike yamamoto, lightsaber, range

26 April 2007, 8:00

Student hopes Web site will propel him into space

Crave Anyone who has seen Star Wars, Aliens or Crave's personal favourite, Space Balls, will have thought, 'Space is cool'. He's called Michael Halls-Moore, and he's set up a Web site called BuyMeToTheStars.com, which features a fictional star chart and...

Tags: star, space, student, dream

23 November 2006, 11:30