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Lightsaber keys for Force entry into your own home
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The "Star Wars" universe has infiltrated every part of your life, so you might as well get the matching house keys, too.
Here are the keys to your "Star Wars" heart. Rockin' Keys
The discerning "Star Wars" fan doesn't just settle for the grand fandom gestures like screen-accurate Darth Vader outfits, AT-AT dog costumes and Pricess Leia hoodies. You want to express your devotion in subtle ways, too. Like with lightsaber house keys.
Available from Rockin' Keys, a purveyor of guitar-shaped keys, the lightsaber keys are exactly what they sound like. Each key looks like a little lightsaber, with the teeth taking up residence on the part of the weapon that is the glowing blade. Mostly these are designed to get you in and out of your house, but who's to stop you from also re-enacting your favorite lightsaber battles in miniature form?
The keys come in a set of two, one blue and one red, for $9.85. The keys can be purchased to match most standard house-key patterns, including common Kwikset keys. The shape won't give you quite as much turning leverage as a regular key, but who cares when you've got little lightsabers granting you entry into your home, Death Star or Ewok hut.
Rockin' Keys has some more space-themed keys on tap, including one that has a little UFO on top, beaming light down the length of the key. It will also be releasing green and purple lightsaber keys with a different hilt design, giving you four different lightsaber looks to choose from. Whether you pick the Dark Side or stick to Luke Skywalker's ilk, you'll enjoy making "vvvvuoooommmph" noises every time you lock or unlock your door.
A second hilt design is coming soon. Rockin' Keys
(Via Oh Gizmo)
Amanda Kooser Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET's Crave blog. When not wallowing in weird gadgets and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. See full bio LG cuts price of OLED TV entry to $3,500
LG While still exorbitantly expensive, prices on LG's OLED TVs are falling fast.
LG has announced its second-generation OLED TV, the 55EC9300, will be on sale at Best Buy on August 24 for $3,500. It's available for preorder now at BestBuy.com.
That's not much more than the highest-end 55-inch LCD TVs, like Samsung's UN55HU9000 ($3,300) and Sony's XBR-55X900B ($3,000). Unlike those models however, LG's newest OLED has 1080p resolution, not 4K.
But OLED delivers superior picture quality to any other TV display technology. That's why I expect the EC9300 to significantly outperform those two, and pretty much every other other non-OLED TV currently available, despite its lower pixel count.
LG launched the first OLED TV last year. In the U.S. it went on sale last July under model number 55EM9800 for $15,000. It was also unveiled in partnership with Best Buy, and after launch it received numerous price cuts.
Its successor is largely the same. The 55EC9300 has a curved screen, of which we're not big fans. If you want a flat-screen OLED TV, your only current option is LG's 55-inch "Gallery" model, called the 55EA8800 in the U.S., can be found for $5,000. You read that right: the flat OLED costs $1,500 more than the curved one--the opposite of the pricing situation with curved LCD TVs.
A Best Buy rep told TWICE that the new model "looks better" than the EM9800, but aside from the addition of WebOS we can't see any major differences in specs when comparing the two on LG's web site. Both use LG's WRGB OLED system and offer passive 3D as well as a panel that's "only as thick as a pencil at its thinnest point."
With this launch, LG firmly establishes itself as the OLED TV leader. It's the only one who announced new models for 2014 at CES, including a 77-inch and a 65-inch size with 4K resolution. The only other current OLED TV maker, Samsung, hasn't launched any new TVs since the KN55S9C last year.
We hope to review the 55EC9300 soon.
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