{"id":507,"date":"2007-03-15T11:51:10","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T11:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/?p=507"},"modified":"2007-03-15T12:06:28","modified_gmt":"2007-03-15T12:06:28","slug":"r2-d2-where-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/15\/r2-d2-where-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"R2-D2! Where are you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img src='http:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/r2d2.png' alt='R2D2' \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It was recently announced at CES07 by Nikko (best known for its remote-controlled cars who doesn&#8217;t remember the Nikko Turbo Panther?), a DVD projection system and a wireless networked Webcam, both based on our old friend R2-D2.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikkor2d2.com\/\">R2-D2 Projector<\/a> is a 50-cm-tall 480p projector and it features built-in speakers, an iPod dock, a memory card slot and an FM transmitter to broadcast audio around your place all this in a fully motorized version of R2-D2. It comes with a Millenium Falcon-shaped remote control, that controls not only the media features but also the projector with it&#8217;s three motorized wheeled legs with built-in safety sensors, which prevents R2-D2 from bumping into the furniture. The guys at Nikko did a great job in what concerns aspect, the unit it&#8217;s almost a carbon-copy of the real droid model and it sounds just like it, with 11 different sound effects randomly playing when it&#8217;s in motion.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikkor2d2.com\/\">R2-D2 Webcam<\/a> comes with a Luke Skywalker lightsaber-shaped USB handset for VoIP communications (read Skype), full with lights and sounds. The lightsaber remote also controls the motions of the motorized wireless R2-D2 1,3 megapixels webcam, in option you can also control the unit by software in a pc.<\/p>\n<p>Now for the painful part: Not available until July in the USA, the R2-D2 DVD Projector will retail for $2,500 and the R2-D2 Webcam with the lightsaber USB handset will cost about $350 (no prevision for Europe). I&#8217;m tying to believe that someday this items will be available in Europe, until then let me dream&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[tags]Star Wars, R2-D2, Nikko, R2-D2 Webcam, R2-D2 Projector[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was recently announced at CES07 by Nikko (best known for its remote-controlled cars who doesn&#8217;t remember the Nikko Turbo Panther?), a DVD projection system and a wireless networked Webcam, both based on our old friend R2-D2. The R2-D2 Projector is a 50-cm-tall 480p projector and it features built-in speakers, an iPod dock, a memory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}