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This Star Trek Communicator is real and you’ll soon be able to buy it

Star Trek Communicator

Star Trek fans, at least one piece of technology depicted in the seminal series is finally here.

Announced at this week’s San Diego Comic-Con, The Original Series Communicator Handset is a bluetooth-enabled accessory that allows a person to receive calls and listen to music from their smartphone. The device is being manufactured by a firm called the Wand Company, which apparently took 3D scans of the original hero prop used in the show to create the mass produced replica.

At $149.95, this admittedly narrow in scope accessory is expensive, though it does look decently well-made. It’s made of pressed die cast metal, machined aluminum and textured ABS. It also comes with a stand that enables wireless charging.

It’s not clear how a person is supposed to call someone with the communicator, but true to its depiction in the series, flipping the communicator open answers a call.

The accessory starts shipping next January, which means that it will become available just in time for Star Trek’s 50th anniversary. Now if only we were a bit closer to the utopian society depicted in the series and subsequent movies.

[source]Star Trek Shop[/source][via]The Verge[/via]

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