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HomeStar - 21st Century Home Planetarium Review
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.
Did anyone else read the headline as, "Direct from Japan, the SexToys HomeStar..."?
It's too early in the morning...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
The picture in the review showed the projected stars as having constellation lines drawn on them! It looked terrible. If I want to get the feeling of lying in bed or in my living room and looking up at the stars, I don't want to see big, garish lines drawn across the "sky". Hopefully they have some disks without the lines, but the review didn't mention it.
Years ago I used a kit to put luminous paint on my bedroom ceiling in the pattern of the stars. It was a set of stencils you'd stick to the ceiling and use as a guide to make the star dots. Then when you turned the lights off they'd glow dimly for an hour or more. It was really beautiful, but a lot of work to create.