Video: R2D2 projector, webcam and lightsabre Skype phone
By Randall Bennett 
posted Jan 10th 2007 8:50PM
posted Jan 10th 2007 8:50PM
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Hello, I´m from Mexico, City and I want to buy the R2D2 WebCam + Sable de Luz-Teléfono Vo/IP Skype Star Wars Nikko (R2D2 projector, webcam and lightsabre Skype phone)
How much is it?
If I bought it, you can send me the R2D2 WebCam + Sable de Luz-Teléfono Vo/IP Skype Star Wars Nikko
my e-mail: ttanis_14@hotmail.com
thank you
Now if only they could house the battery inside that thing instead of having it plugged in all the time.
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.
this might be the only time in the history of the interwebs when "cum projector" isn't NSFW.
Love the geek-tastic theme this year. Well wait, isn't it that way every year! Woot to the nerds in us all!!
oh man i want one. but damn $2500?
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
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.
I was thinking the same while watching the video...
It makes the product look suspicious, like if they are hiding something... :/
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