http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/ Engadget Comments for Movie Gadget Friday: Battlestar Galactica (1978) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/2) the 70's sure had a lot of wacky ideas]]>Feb 15th 2008 9:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/Feb 15th 2008 9:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/Feb 15th 2008 9:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/Feb 15th 2008 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/Feb 15th 2008 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/Feb 15th 2008 10:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/
And the footage was used in many a B sifi movie:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McgzrE6_LnA

My favorite gadget from the original series is Adama's excelent voice recognition system (that used a green phosphor screen).

Of course, my favorite gadget from the new series is D'Anna Biers!]]>Feb 15th 2008 10:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactica_1980

I frickin loved the whole Battlestar Galactica thing when I was kid!]]>Feb 15th 2008 10:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/
I also read George Lucas became incredibly secretive about the Star Wars movie production after Battlestar stole a bunch of spaceship models which would have been used in the Star Wars series.]]>Feb 16th 2008 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/Feb 15th 2008 10:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/Feb 16th 2008 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/Feb 15th 2008 10:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/Feb 15th 2008 11:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/Feb 15th 2008 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/
ericdano, Boxy was in the miniseries and a few episodes of Sci-Fi's series]]>Feb 15th 2008 11:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/Feb 17th 2008 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/Feb 15th 2008 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/Feb 15th 2008 11:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/Feb 16th 2008 3:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/Feb 16th 2008 4:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/]]>Feb 16th 2008 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/
Ah, those were the days.. when toys were realistic! =P]]>Feb 17th 2008 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/movie-gadget-friday-battlestar-galactica-1978/
http://www.ledwatches.net/photo-pages/hughes-battlestar.htm



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Yeah I'm a dork.]]>Feb 18th 2008 9:33AM