When you were a kid, your toys looked like toys. They acted like toys. That usually meant they used a lot of parent-funded batteries to do things that were completely useless and that got on other people's nerves. Ironically, the people whose nerves they got on tended to be the same people who were funding the batteries. It was beautiful. It was simple.

Now that you're all grown up, your toys have to answer for themselves, especially if they have anything whatsoever to do with "Star Trek". If you go all googly at the age of 24 over an Enterprise mobile, your friends may look at you a bit strangely, unless they happen to be the sort of friends who know how to speak Klingon fluently.

Even if you have those sorts of friends, however, you probably have other friends who do not know how to speak Klingon. Indeed, they may not even know what a Klingon is, unless you have lovingly bestowed upon them your views of Klingon culture and the fact that Chancellor Gorkon looks an awful lot like Abraham Lincoln. Those particular friends may just shake their heads sadly at you and wander away.

But a "Star Trek" voice activated light switch and dimmer, now that is something to be proud of. Anything, no matter what it is, that can be activated with voice prompts is considered intrinsically cool, even if it is the most inane thing on the planet.

Remember when the technology first arrived that would cause your computer to type on its screen based on what you said? Only it never quite got it right? I remember many happy hours spent saying inane things to one computer just to see what it would type.

At any rate, this thing is cool, whether you're a Trekkie, a Trekker or whether you think  Star Trek is stupid and want it to die. And if you have a Trekkie/Trekker person in your life, they will think you are the coolest person in the world if you give this to them for their birthday.

BTW, mine is in August. LOL

Star Trek Light Dimmer

Posted by Rhonda.