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For geeks in love, I present you – Star Wars themed wedding rings!

By on May 26, 2015 in design, general geekery, star wars

iknowWhile I wouldn’t redo/change my wedding ring now – it’s simple and elegant and the exact one I picked out – but just seeing these Star Wars themed rings does make me think how awesome it would be if the hubs and I had matching or complimentary Tour d’ Force rings. 🙂

The R2-D2 rings are perhaps the most instantly recognizable and geekiest of offerings – and perhaps the most expensive with 14K white gold… but heck. She’s worth it!  Just imagine the two of you swaggering down the aisle at Comicon or Walker Stalker convention with one of these on your fingers! The R2-D2 rings do look a tad uncomfortable, but geeky coolness can trump comfort at times.

tietheknotAnd for the man in our life… the Tie the Knot ring is beyond brilliant in design. Masculine and geeky and all Star Warsy all at once. Until technology makes a hovercraft or light sabre a reality within your grasp, this is a great fall-back position.

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We’re one step closer to Aunt Beru’s Star Wars-cool Kitchen

By on May 25, 2015 in design, general geekery, kickstarter, star wars

Screen Shot 2015-05-23 at 2.39.22 PMAunt Beru gets even less screen time than Uncle Owen in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, but all geeks remember her funky kitchen. Clean, space age appliances that made cool whirring noises and showed quite the contrast to the outside of their home that looked like some dusty ant hills in the desert. Their kitchen looked like IKEA and a geek had a baby.

A couple of Dutch designers, Nils Chudy and Jasmina Grase, are about to bring us a bit closer to that reality – albeit without the blue milk or subsequent destruction by Imperial troops. Chudy and Grase present us with a problem we didn’t realize we had, and give us a super cool solution we want – and we want it now! We are using too much time and energy heating up a kettle of water for our hot tea. These out of the box thinkers came up with a way to pull of induction even in your favorite ceramic or glass mug – by using a metal piston of sorts that does the work for you. Just heat the water you need, not a whole pot full. It’s quicker and doesn’t waste all the energy you could be expending lighting the streets of London. 🙂

This is apparently what happens when you boil an entire kettle of water instead of using Induction - like they do with the MIITO.

This is apparently what happens when you boil an entire kettle of water instead of using Induction – like they do in the MIITO.

Their Kickstarter project, the MIITO, still has a couple of weeks left until the campaign is over – so you can back them now or order later… but it’s clear that they have already exceeded their funding goal by over a quarter of a million dollars as of me typing this out. So far, backers have pledged $402,533 of their $167,383 goal. It has been my experience with Kickstarter that you want to back early – you get one of the first shipments after they’re made and you’re not waiting for them to fulfill other orders before they get to yours.

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