One of the drawbacks to living in a city is how all the streetlights extinguish the stars overhead. I don't have the car or the time to drive somewhere far away enough to see those stars, even though stargazing is one of my all-time favorite no-electricity-required pastimes.

Though it's not as good as the real thing (because nothing could be), this Personal Planetarium from Restoration Hardware could be a fun substitute for those nights when you ache to lay back and lose yourself in a glitter-flecked sky.

Get in your recliner and just think, "In a galaxy, far, far away. . . "