Video: R2D2 projector, webcam and lightsabre Skype phone

This could be reaching out to our geek audience a bit too much, but the combo media dock-cum-projector housed in the Nikko Electronics R2D2's guts has to get at least a look. Besides the fact that it's the iconic little droid, the projector's remote is housed in a Millennium Falcon Hyperdrive, adding to the geek cred. Granted, the $2,500 price tag could be a bit prohibitive for your 12-year-old Star Wars obsessed nephew, but maybe he could give the wireless R2D2 webcam, or the Anakin Skywalker Lightsabre Skype phone a go. Regardless, check out the gallery below and the video after the break (or get your download on, if that's your thing).

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Video: R2D2 projector, webcam and lightsabre Skype phone

[Ceralor @ Jan 10th 2007 9:04PM]

Now if only they could house the battery inside that thing instead of having it plugged in all the time.

[TheCash @ Jan 10th 2007 10:07PM]

I doubt they could have found a worse guy to sell these things. Maybe it was just his personality, but it came across as if he knew next to nothing about the target audience the company was aiming for. 'Imagine playing your xbox or your gameboy on the ceiling while lying in bed.' Uh? I'm not even going to go into how many layers of wrong that statement transends.

Cool products... horrible, horrible guy hocking them.

[Robert Preseau @ Jan 10th 2007 10:33PM]

this might be the only time in the history of the interwebs when "cum projector" isn't NSFW.

[Zakk @ Jan 10th 2007 11:08PM]

Love the geek-tastic theme this year. Well wait, isn't it that way every year! Woot to the nerds in us all!!

[_man1c_ @ Jan 10th 2007 11:10PM]

oh man i want one. but damn $2500?

[garyp.mac @ Jan 29th 2007 9:16PM]

You can get it at
http://www.forbiddenplanet.com/store/Product.htm?sp=l7954

Also check this out
Star Wars: R2-D2 Desktop Web Cam
http://www.forbiddenplanet.com/store/Product.htm?sp=l7953

[Poops @ Jan 11th 2007 12:17AM]

Exactly what I was gonna say, TheCash - this guy makes me not want to hang around and learn more. And he's just a bad presenter period, no matter what the product. He had an exceptionally annoying and instantly ill-will-generating habit of answering the question "What's this?" by talking not about the thing that the dude has asked him about. Granted, he'd talk about the whole product of which it was a part, but if I ask you "What is this lightsaber?" and you respond "This is Anakin Skywalker's light saber" and then immediately put your hand on R2D2 and start talking about how it's a webcam, I'm going to instantly start to wonder if you're off your gourd, until I figure out on my own that the lightsaber and the droid are two parts of the one product.

Same thing again "...this Millenium Falcon. What's up with this?" "This is R2D2 grown up." Riiiight.

And you're exactly right, I haven't heard anyone so unknowingly be so hugely creepy since I watched an old Michael Jackson interview on google video. Why indeed does he think we're going to be all stoked to get home with our friends, head straight for the bedroom, and get down to some serious on-our-backs-together-on-the-bed fun. Thank Christ Randall cuts him off pretty quick once he launches into "Better yet, how about Sister???" He even throws in just the right(=wrong) emphasis on "all KINDS of pictures".

I suppose it's not too surprising when you remember that the reason he's so stoked about the R2D2 cam is that he can use it to keep an eye on the wife while he's in Japan, no matter where in the house she may try to go to hide.

Maybe my favorite part, though is from about 3:15-3:20, you get a nice long shot of Norm's awesome ring. That ring, in a way, says it all.

Man, I'm gonna have to find a way to save this video to my hard drive. It's such a very rich document of our dads' generation of salesman trying to deal in the products of today.

[Hart @ Jan 11th 2007 8:33PM]

I was thinking the same while watching the video...

It makes the product look suspicious, like if they are hiding something... :/

[guss @ Jan 31st 2007 10:19PM]

Talk about a cheesy salesman, put me right off. Can anyone smell ripoff? 2.500$ for some plasticky do it all(but does nothing properly) grown up/excentric/dumb geek "toy"? This is just blatant cashing in on a popular culture icon. They just pushed it a little too far, thanks but no thanks.

PS: They guy hesitated mentioning the price cuz he knows it´s basically a bunch of mediocre hardware in a easily breakable