One aspect of geek credibility is knowing random facts and figures pertaining to the most powerful weapon in the universe: the Death Star. The Empire’s planet-blasting weapon from Star Wars has captivated us for decades and continues to pop up in cultural references even after it’s been blown up… twice. This graphic by Geeks are Sexy gives us the skinny on the massive weapon all the way down to construction costs. If you ever get the desire to build one, good luck. Compiled by Car Insurance Guide and Geeks are Sexy | Picture hosted on imgur…

Star Wars creator George Lucas has been busy of late, pulling together the makings of his grandest special effect to date: resurrecting the dead. But it’s not exactly what you think. Or, maybe it is. You didn’t honestly believe Lucas was drawing a big pantagram on the floor and sacrificing lesser farm animals, did you? Either way, it’s considerably less metal than that. I’ll let Lucas’ friend, director Mel Smith, fill you in. George has been buying up the film rights to dead actors in the hope of using computer trickery to put them all together, so you’d have Orson Welles and Barbara Stanwyck alongside…

I’ve never used nor liked the term ‘nerdgasm’, but I feel the need to point out that I’ve just experienced one – so for the purposes of this article, the term is appropriate. Courtesy of Furious Fanboys is a blueprint of the Millenium Falcon, in its entirety. You can thank me later. Unless you’re not much of a Star Wars fan. You don’t have to thank me, then. Click to enlarge that bad boy….

Kinda weird timing on this one, but some nerdy genius has come up with the Boba Fett backpack. Light on details save for the fact that it’s going to set you back fifty bucks, you’ve seen all you really need to see – it’s a backpack. That looks like Boba Fett’s rocket pack. This one’s right up there with Lightsaber chopsticks, but if you’re planning to buy this for your kid, alarm bells may be ringing that you’re raising a nerd of your own. The backpack is available at ThinkGeek now. Just don’t forget the helmet too….

If there is a more ambitious case modder than Brian DeVitis, I haven’t heard of him. Not content with having his game consoles anywhere but in one place, Brian has taken the liberty of dismantling and reconfiguring eleven game consoles, a projector, and sound system into one box. And, naturally, that box is a life-sized R2D2. Of course it is. Making its debut at PAX ’10, the droid is a fully-functioning one-stop-shop for classic gaming and includes *deep breath* an NES, Super NES, N64, Gamecube, Genesis, Dreamcast, Atari 5200 and 7800, PSX, PSP, Xbox… and Windows XP, just for good measure. Power…

If you’re a geek with a pulse you probably know that Celebration V, an expo focusing on all things Star Wars, has been going on in Orlando. The event which ends today has given us many great images, such as the life size Tie Fighter, and storm troopers with lettering on their backs to spell out Jon Stewart’s name. The last picture was a nod to Stewart who interviewed George Lucas, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher on Saturday. Lucas waxed nerdy, talking about how the production team spent hours trying to get the R2-D2 droids moving in a straight line on the first Star Wars movie. The big news for moviephiles…

If you’ve taken part in the civilized world in the last couple years and/or drive an automobile (the two terms are mutually exclusive more often than you’d think), you’ve been privy to the trend in celebrity GPS voice skins. My personal favourite has and will remain Gary Busey, but this is adorable. Adorable, guys. Not content to settle with their enormously successful Darth Vader GPS skin, TomTom have now released the logical counterpoint; Yoda, complete in all his throat-clearing, sentence-twisting obfuscation. If you really like Star Wars that much, you should probably do yourself a solid…

Once upon a time we’d take fast fairground rides to get a sense of it, nowadays we can actually, you know, just do it: head off into the wide blue yonder of zero gravity sensation. Sensation seekers these days have this new option on their itinerary, for when those picnics and beach holidays get a little tired, why not get a sense of life on Mars? Space.com talks up the holidays offered by Zero Gravity Corporation, who are taking people up and out in a G-Force One airplane to experience weightlessness. These are all part of the many ongoing 21st-Century experiments attempting to assess the scientific…

Patrick Boivin, a French Canadian autodidact director, shows us all what it is like to be a happy-go-lucky AT-T, if just for an afternoon….

I haven’t seen synchronization of this magnitude since that whole Dark Side of Oz business. The Death Star analogy is astonishingly poignant, depending on your opinion of Apple’s tablet. I suppose I need an obligatory Star Wars quote, dont I? Um… “Just get in, I don’t care what you smell!”…