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Lunchboxes were so cool when I was a kid. The art was always amazing and they had great metal embossing. Well, the days of metal lunchboxes may be gone, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t cool still. This R2-D2 Soft Lunch Box is the one to get today.

If you frequent the friendly skies, maybe you’ve skimmed the pages of the Skymall catalog in the seat pocket in front of you out of curiosity or boredom. If so, has the Voice Activated R2-D2 ever caught your eye?

Remember the Viper probe droids that the Galactic Empire dispatched to search for the Rebel Alliance at the beginning of The Empire Strikes Back movie? Now with the Star Wars Probe Droid Statue, you can have a sculpture of this memorable character. Made of cold cast resin this limited edition statue, which is imported from [...]

R2-D2 may be the most well known Astromech Droid out there, but he’s not the only one. Real fans can now collect some of the other astromechs with these limited edition Star Wars R2-Q2, R2-R9, R2-X2 Droid Bobbleheads. Each is available exclusively at Entertainment Earth, stands about 4.5 to 5 inches tall (including base), and [...]

For those of you who enjoyed the Star Wars USB Hand Warmers that was covered here at GeekAlerts a couple of days ago, here are a pair of headphones that will be a perfect match with the R2-D2 model of those geeky winter gizmos.

Fans of the Star Wars saga will this year be able to keep their fingers hot during cold winter days using hand warmers inspired by the George Lucas space opera.

After been moonlighting as a fridge, an aquarium and lots of other strange things, it’s time for everyone’s favorite tin can astromech droid to enter yet another new role: a money bank.

It’s not the first time this tin can astromech droid gets filled with water. Last year we could see R2-D2 as an aquarium with a built-in periscope, and now the design of the popular Star Wars robot has been used for a water bottle.

No rest for the tin can astromech droid. It wasn’t that long ago since we saw R2-D2 as a fridge, and now this popular Star Wars character has to hold a 1 3/4-gallon aquarium tank in his central compartment.

The R2-D2 Whizzwatch time killer/time teller combo allows you to control a mini action figure of the popular Star Wars droid using a special wristwatch IR transmitter.

Wesco Limited, a toy manufacturer in Cheshire, England, will later this year release release a projection alarm clock in the shape of the popular Star Wars R2-D2 character.

Last week we saw our favorite tin can astromech droid R2-D2 in the shape of a belt buckle. This week they have turned him and his red cousin R2-D1 into a nice pair of desktop speakers.