Lego Mars Mission 5616-1: Mini Robot

This set belongs to the Mars Mission series and consists of one mini robot and an astronaut minifig. The astronaut has a gold visor on an ordinary helmet and carries a device that looks like a torchlight. He does have an interesting expression and the stubble seems to indicate that he has been on Mars for too long. A single oxygen tank is printed on the back.

The mini robot has an opening hatch to store the mars crystals and carries a pick-axe and what looks like some sort of ground detector for detecting crystals. It does look quite nice and would probably fit in a sidekick or mascot.

Lego Space Patrol 8399

The Lego Space Patrol set 8399 consist of a Space Patrol minifig and a robotic patrol dog. Although the "stick and green transparent warhead" is supposed to be a mini missle mounted on the dog, I found it to be rather clumsy and illogical and used it as a lighting instrument for the Space Patrol minifig. It costs only S$6.90 and builds up to a nice minifig and robot dog.

The Clone Wars - Muunilist 10, Clone Troopers, AT-AP

Some of the Clone Troopers from the Star Wars prequel trilogy...

The Muunilinst 10 was a group of Advanced Recon Commandos and standard clone troopers led by ARC Captain Fordo that consisted of two ARC lieutenants, and seven infantry clones, though one was killed.

A pair of Clone Troopers carrying the Merr-Sonn PLX-1 portable missile launcher, which was in service almost from the beginning of the Clone Wars and continued to be used in different militaries well after the conclusion of that cataclysmic conflict.

The All Terrain Attack Pod (AT-AP), or Pod Attack Walker (PAW), was a highly successful way of transporting heavy artillery from place-to-place, its main function was to serve as a mobile gun platform used for shelling enemy positions, rather than attacking troops or other vehicles. It featured highly-advanced targeting systems that gave it the nickname "sniper tank."

Y-wing fighter & TIE Interceptor

Nam was wondering how the Hasbro Star Wars toys look like and so here you go Nam! The Hasbro Star Wars vehicles are actually quite nicely done and are a lot better than the old Kenner toys. Here's the Y-wing and one of the TIE Interceptor. Enjoy!

Y-wing, pilot and droid unit

Y-wing, pilot and droid unit

TIE Interceptor

Lenovo Ideapad S10 - Upclose!

I just bought a Lenovo Ideapad S10. It's one of those new netbooks which is running on the Intel Atom processor. It's really small and portable - the LCD is only 10.2" but running a resolution of 1024x600. It came with a 6-cell battery which last over 4 hours. Here's some close up shots of this amazing device.

Lenovo Ideapad S10 in the free Pink/Gray sleeve

The Lenovo Ideapad S10 - White

Left side

Right View - a lot more ports

The right side also contains the Kensington Lock slot

The "elusive" 6-cell Lenovo Ideapad battery

The 6-cell battery pack adds an extra 2 rubber feet

Its angled and lifts the back portion of the S10. This leaves a gap for more airflow but does change the side profile of the netbook.

The OneKey Recovery button is unique to the Lenovo Ideapad S10 netbook. A powerful and also dangerous feature. Be sure to set a password to prevent accidental reset to factory setting - thereby deleting all your data.

The uhm... Power Button...

Integrated Webcam

I took these pictures with my old Canon Powershot G3 digital camera that was lying semi-retired in my drawer. The pictures were then transferred to the Lenovo Ideapad S10 via a USB compact flash card reader (the onboard card reader only reads SD sizes or smaller). These pictures were then edited in my Photoshop Elements 5.0 on the Lenovo Ideapad S10 itself. Finally, this blog entry was also written on the Lenovo Ideapad S10. I did this to try out how useful a small device like a netbook would be for simple photo editing and text typing. It worked surprisingly well.

The keyboard layout is a little small for extended typing but that is to be expected. The screen is also kinda small for editing large pictures.

My Lenovo Ideapad S10:

• Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz
• 2 GB RAM
• 160GB Harddisk
• 6-cell battery
• Microsoft Windows XP SP3