Astromech Droids Can Do Anything
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Carry plans for a Death Star? Check. Break into the Imperial mainframe? Check. Fly around with jets that will be conveniently forgotten for the original trilogy? Check. Act as an awesome gaming hub? Check and mate. Brian de Vitis rigged one of those old R2-D2 cooler into this multi-nerd-media entertainment system, which houses eight consoles and has a projector for displaying all of those games on the way. I recognize the NES, Super Nintendo, Genesis, Nintendo 64, GameCube, what’s either a PlayStation or PS2 (either way it plays PSX games), an Atari 7800 (with paddles, and which also plays Atari 2600 games) and one other on the far right I don’t recognize, although I’m sure you will. Thanks to everyone who sent in the tip. (Via Engadget)
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.