I’m Pretty Sure This Is the Droid I Was Looking For
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?I’m sure most of you have heard about Verizon’s Star Wars-themed, R2-D2-inspired Droid phone by now, but this pic — from the just started Star Wars Celebration V in sunny (or)Lando, Flordia — is the first I’ve actually seen of it. I’m not going to lie; despite loving my IPhone, I’m ready to toss it in the trash to get one of these things. I understand there’s no rhyme or reason. I know that I’d prefer the iPhone Mac interface, since that what’s I’ve been used for the last decade. But it looks like fucking R2-D2. Argument over. The worst part?
Someone made an X-Wing Targeting Computer/GPS app. Which you can install. On your phone that looks like R2-D2. Holy fucking shit, people. Thanks to Christopher S for the tip and the article title. (Via Android & Me and Gizmodo)
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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.