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Photochopped R2-D2 USB Beverage Cooler Can Be Yours, Actual Product or Not
Posted by John Mahoney at 2:45 AM on August 7, 2008
Add this one to the "ouch, ouch, ouch" Photoshop bin. Yeah, I can use the pen tool to smoothly decapitate R2 and throw a Coke can top and USB cord in too. What I can't do, though, is build an actual USB beverage can cooler out of a shrunken R2-D2 model. Which I would want. It's up for pre-order at Play.com for US$36--whether you get a layered .PSD or an actual cooler, though, remains to be seen. [Product Page via Nerd Approved]
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Gann
Posted 3:06 AM 7/8/08
You just gotta love the totally mismatched perspectives of the 3 elements in the composite.
Gann
Kaiser-Machead's BSDM Shenanigans
Posted 3:05 AM 7/8/08
Or you could just photoshop an even bigger USB cable into it, leave R2 as he is and just call him a fancy shmancy webcam.
Kaiser-Machead's BSDM Shenanigans
Jimbles
Posted 3:04 AM 7/8/08
Couldn't you just buy a USB can cooler and retrofit it into a R2-D2 model? I feel a project a brewing...
Jimbles
venomous_duck41
Posted 2:58 AM 7/8/08
Advertising department = fail
venomous_duck41
Miranda Kali
Posted 2:54 AM 7/8/08
Maybe if it were the other way around... I know some hardcore Trek fans that would love to drink Romulan Ale out of R2D2's skull.
Miranda Kali
Link93
Posted 2:53 AM 7/8/08
slow news day?
Link93
strider_mt2k
Posted 2:51 AM 7/8/08
What kind of junk are you trying to push on us?
strider_mt2k
GeekyNerdGuy
Posted 2:47 AM 7/8/08
Does it come with the head for when you don't have a can in it?
GeekyNerdGuy
dingus
Posted 3:33 AM 7/8/08
I think I saw this in Megagamerz l33t
dingus
Rabid Penguin
Posted 3:24 AM 7/8/08
lol. They could have at least put a little effort into their photoshop.
Rabid Penguin
Ariel_Wollinger
Posted 3:19 AM 7/8/08
the perspective of the can is perfect..
..ly horrible
Ariel_Wollinger
Ariel_Wollinger
Posted 3:47 AM 7/8/08
@tek_nic: I would buy it. I need a webcam anyway.
Ariel_Wollinger
Ariel_Wollinger
Posted 3:47 AM 7/8/08
@Rabid Penguin:
I think it was on purpose.
Ariel_Wollinger
tek_nic
Posted 3:44 AM 7/8/08
Okay - that's what I want. An R2-D2 web cam. With motion tracking. Yes.
However, I do find it incredibly funny that the specs for this cooler are nothing more than a preview for the animated movie.
For specs on this cooler, please see movie. yeah. See that little robot dude - this looks kinda like him. Yeah. Uh-huh.
tek_nic
dsenier
Posted 3:41 AM 7/8/08
This is an actual product I have one sitting by my desk at home. ;-)
dsenier
x3r0
Posted 4:31 AM 7/8/08
I especially like how the cord connects to R2D2 himself nowhere at all. Is that an iPod cable?
If it actually chilled soda, I'd sit one here at my desk at work :D
Does it work well dsenier?
x3r0
The Turtle
Posted 5:35 AM 7/8/08
This would be easy to make. Get one of those CoolItSystems.com USB chillers for thirty bucks and mount it in this voice-controlled R2-D2 robot:
[www.hammacher.com]
Only $170 at Hammacher-Schlemmer... and for less than two bills you should be able to keep a $1.09 Pepsi cold, or at least cool.
Then again, $200 will buy a cheap styrofoam cooler and about fifty bags of ice at your local convenience store.
The Turtle
bobdobbs
Posted 8:14 AM 7/8/08
Shouldn't the red R2 unit that pops it's top in episode IV be more appropriate?
bobdobbs
89macrunner
Posted 2:09 PM 7/8/08
my dad has an actual R2D2 cooler...it fits a good 3-4 cases of beer too.
its life size
89macrunner
aliskaba
Posted 2:59 AM 7/8/08
Its a scam. Remember the video with the USB that cooks stuff? Its a government plot to make you think it is a cooler, when in fact it will cook your soda. Damn you USA and your conspiracies!!! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!!
aliskaba