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HomeStar - 21st Century Home Planetarium Review

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the my-god-it's-full-of-stars dept.

Jeff writes "Direct from Japan, the SegaToys HomeStar is a unique home projector that turns any room into a planetarium, giving a clear view of the night sky. Using interchangeable plates, it's capable of displaying up to 10,000 stars of either northern or southern hemisphere, as well as their constellations. The starfield can move on a timer to simulate the earth's rotation. Also comes with a meteor generating function and sleep timer. Makes a great gift for the dad who has everything, or people who live in light-polluted areas." Check out Jeff's review of the unit.

7 of 98 comments (clear)

  1. Homestar? (The Facts) by pete-classic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's bupkis!

    And that's the end of my show! DONK!

    -Peter

  2. Re:Sample links by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think Hemos had the idea first...

  3. GJ, Jeff! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Submitter submits review on his own site to /. (lame) and it's brutally slow after three comments. One can only ask - why?

  4. What is this? by interiot · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Makes a great gift for the dad who has everything
    What is this? Such a slow news day that we can't even copy a story off Digg? Or at the very minimum, rewrite the article summary to give plausable deniability that it's spam? Sheesh.
  5. Re:Sample links by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Anyone else enjoying that this is modded as (Score:4, Informative)?

  6. Re:Sample links by peter.stocking · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    mebbe we should be checking links before we mod them 'informative'

    just a suggestion.

  7. Pr0n capsual? by a_greer2005 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Screw the changable plates, retro fit an LCD projector in there and hace a private pr0n-capsual...WOW...with that one minor redesign, the inventor of this contraption may be able to...idunno, sell one!