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Can you see him floating there, on the left, right below the huge arrow that I also missed when I saw the movie? That's obviously him, a fact that has been confirmed to me by one of the movie's sequence supervisors at Industrial Light & Magic—the same guy who said this previous sighting was just the shuttle.

I don't know about you but, right now, I feel like what I imagine my dog Jones feels every time I take his collar off to scratch his neck. Oh yesyeyeyeyes. YES. Harf. Woof. [Image capture from Science Fiction Stuff—Thanks ILM tipster]

Actually, according to this frame captured from the Blu-ray edition, our favorite astromech appears 2 hours 17 minutes and 52 seconds in the movie, during the merge of Jetfire's parts to Optimus Prime.

It looks like the real thing to me. Those look like his three feet, as he is flying away from the camera. They are too symmetric to be a piece of random metal, and I can see his shape. But then again, I've been wrong before.

Update: A reader sent us this other frame, which clearly shows that's R2-D2. [Transformers Live]

Brian first took an R2-D2 shaped cooler and modified it to make it look more realistic. He then gutted the consoles to rearrange the controllers inside so all the ports could face in the right direction. That still left enough space inside to place a projector and a sound system. Quite a feat.

I can see Dreamcast, Playstation, SNES, and Nintendo Ultra64 gamepads, but what are the rest? [PopSci via The Force]

Just fill R2 up with up to 8 ounces of water, plug him into any available USB port and voilà—the air is comfortable once again. It's only $21 an is expected to ship starting in November. [NCSX via Technabob]

There's an R2-D2 flying around in there somewhere. There's a little bit of space junk thrown in there; see if you can find it. It's a scene in the desert.

What's next? Bar2-D2 serving cocktails to Tony Stark in Iron Man 2? Hopefully, yes. [VH1 via Star Wars Blog]

During the Drill Machine sequence as the Enterprise comes out of its barrel role amidst destruction of the other Federation ships above Vulcan, we cut to an interior Enterprise bridge over the shoulder of Kirk that is looking out through the front viewscreen. In space, R2-D2 is floating in the debris from about the top middle of the screen to the bottom right.

Poor R2. [Oh No They Didn't]

Update: The scene is that but that is not R2-D2 according to one ILM Star Trek effects supervisor. Unfortunately, he and Paramount can't show the scene yet.

For now he only controls the servo and dome motor with the accelerometer, as well as touchscreen controls. His plan is to have the whole thing controlled using an iPhone interface that uses both the accelerometer, as well as buttons and gestures on the touchscreen.

Although this one is not controlled by the iPhone, here's another video of Glenn's R2 just humming along his living room.

[Glenn's Astromech via Make]

The X-wing (pictured here) is not only 5-feet long; it includes a water cannon. Couple that aqua weaponry with a few "pew pew" noises and you've got yourself a second degree sunburn before anyone even pulls out the Death Star beach ball.

Seriously, I'm calling a do-over to my childhood. But I can wait until Power Wheels releases a line of working mini Tie Fighters. [StarWars via OhGizmo!]

By custom cutting a stainless steel trash can, R2 had his base. Now he just needed some detail work. So the modder dremeled like a mad man before adding wooden legs, LEDs and Vikureen polystyrene plating to complete the look. Where the plastic plating would not bend properly, you can see (upon close inspection) that it was merely sliced into strips.

Oh, and just in case you always wondered. R2D2 runs on a P4 2.8GHz with 768MB of RAM and 64MB GeForce MX400 graphics. [bit-tech]

Artist Paul Loughridge made this 16-inch tall astrokeg using a 4.7 liter beer keg and the following elements:

Head - 1945 chrome BLC utility light shell.
Eye - vintage movie camera lens w/adjustable spring-loaded aluminum casing.
Legs - propane tank valve handles, brass spacers, drilled-out washers, pair of aluminum Lady Josephine shoe butler (wall-mounted shoe shine holders).
Feet/base - 3 mini bread loaf pans, lamp hardware and a 1/2″ precision drilled aluminum base plate.
+assorted nuts, bolts, screws and, of course - lockwashers!

Head to Bonnie Burton's interview with Paul for more details about his cool artwork. [Star Wars Blog]

The boombox, posted on the blog for streetwear label Mishka, is the handiwork of artist Bill McMullen. We don't know much else about the piece, except that it was part of McMullen's "Hype, Hustle, Rip-Off" gallery opening (in fact, I think it might just be a plaster mold). But hey, it still looks completely pantsable. [Bill McMullen via Mishka Bloglin]

I certainly can. And soon you will be able to become that nerd when Japanese company Tanomi releases this water bottle in April for the equivalent of $37. [Tanomi via GeekAlerts via Technabob]

Bar2 is radio controlled and runs about 8 hours on a single charge. And as you can see in our gallery, he's great with the ladies.

The robot is a fully stocked bar on wheels with compartments for ice, beer and mixed drinks. Grab a beer from Bar2 and its carousel system automatically rotates to present you with the next bottle (15 max capacity). The top carousel holds up to six bottles of hard alcohol and mixers that is programmable to mix the perfect drink.

And Bar2D2 sounds like his fictional counterpart, stocked with the soundboard of an R2-D2 toy. See the full process of building Bar2 over at Jamie Price's flickr page. [flickr via Gizmowatch]