Darth Vader children's laptop for your little Sith Lord

If you're like us, you want to encourage your children to harness the power of the Dark side and use The Force for their twisted, megalomaniacal schemes, but you also want them to learn something while doing it. Luckily Oregon Scientific understands your plight, and has delivered the Darth Vader laptop to help. Of course, calling it a laptop is a little misleading -- it's more like a Speak & Spell with a glowing lightsaber stylus and accompanying sound effects, but with 50 games for training "reflexes, typing and rhythm," at least it will keep Palpatine Jr. out of your hair.

[Via Tech Digest]

[yuvamani @ Jul 18th 2007 7:53PM]

Is it me, Or has engadget lost all notions of quality control ?

Engadget . Seriously - a toy ???

[Miguel @ Jul 18th 2007 8:00PM]

It's not "a toy." It's a DARTH VADER toy.

[Goatee Man @ Jul 18th 2007 8:15PM]

And more importantly, who cares? It's a blog website. If they find something interesting (or in this case, something nerdy), they're going to post about it. Quit griping about their "quality control" and just be glad they give us a lot of news about gadgets and games.

[gt2378b @ Jul 18th 2007 8:35PM]

The force is strong in this one.

[Jeff @ Jul 18th 2007 8:59PM]

I think the monitor reads "Hey kid, I am your father....."

[Ig @ Jul 18th 2007 10:20PM]

Star Wars merchandising is almost as entertaining as the movies. I still kick myself for not purchasing that Darth Maul Shampoo when I saw it at a discount store.

[strider_mt2k @ Jul 18th 2007 10:27PM]

"I find your lack of punctuation disturbing..."

[kyle allen @ Jul 19th 2007 12:32AM]

does it run checks quest?

[JohnTitor @ Jul 19th 2007 1:47AM]

reminds me of the good old Vtech days
but soon with all the sub-notebooks you can an actual useful PC for the price of what those Vtech electronics used to be early on

[BuzWeaver @ Jul 19th 2007 12:33PM]

But does it make the breathing apparatus sound?

[Danny @ Oct 5th 2007 11:24AM]

Looks cool - now availble on the oregon site ..www.oregonscientific.co.uk