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Recently the on-line retailer Think Geek sent me a selection of their Star Wars products to check out. The limited edition Star Wars Moleskin Notebooks, Light Up Chop Sabers, R2-D2 Measuring Cups, and the Darth Vader Stress Toy.

The Moleskin notebook I received is the perfect little black book. For you kids out there, we used to write down contact information on paper and it was convenient for them to all be in a single book. Of course today your phone does that, but there is something special still about putting pen to paper. Whether it is journaling, writing down to-do-lists, writing down ideas, or using as a physical password book, you can’t go wrong with the quality products that Moleskin puts out.

Think Geek has both large and small Star Wars Moleskin notebooks available, the small is $18.95 and the large is $24.00 or you can buy both for $34.99.

The Light Up Chop Sabers are an item that has been around for a few years now from Kotobukiya and they are a very cool product. Now for the chop-stick challenged like myself, we may be better of with lightsaber forks, but if you can master these things it will certainly make dinner more interesting. One caveat is that the Vader (red) Chop Sabers I got included on saber in which the batter contact was bent and would not allow the batteries to be inserted in that saber. I had to take pliers to it to bend it back into place. On the same saber the blade portion was also loose from the hilt causing it to move around. So it looks like I got one good saber and one defective one. The Chop Sabers are available in Luke (blue) and Vader (red) for $14.99.

The Darth Vader Stress Toy is a lot of fun. The rubbery material that it is made out of deforms and returns to form very well. I would gladly give into my Dark Side for under $10 bucks. This item is available for $9.99.

The final item is probably my favorite of all that I received. If there is a Star Wars fan in your kitchen, then the R2-D2 Measuring Cups is a sure way to make cooking more entertaining. This plastic R2 dissassembles into 1/4, 1/3, 1/2 and 1 cup measuring cups while his legs 1/4, 1/2, 1 tsp, and 1/3 tbsp. This is a very cool item with one big flaw. The the tsp and tbsp portions of the legs are loose and can fall out. A better design to keep them together would prevent users from losing pieces or R2.