Nothing is quite as iconic of the Star Wars franchise as is the lightsaber. A weapon wielded by force-sensitive being of good and evil intent, the lightsaber symbolizes the transcendent nature of the ...

YouTuber the Hacksmith (aka James Dobson) has been able to create a real-life "proto-saber"; an energy sword with its own power source that reaches at incredibly high temperature. Hobson's saber ...

The dream of a real lightsaber has always sounded like a physics joke, not an engineering brief. Yet a retractable plasma blade that can slice through steel has forced a small Canadian workshop to ...

Move over Peter Parker: Boston has its own super engineer turning science fiction into real life. Jacob Uy just graduated from Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Massachusetts, where he spent the ...

You dont have to be a Jedi to imagine yourself dueling with a lightsaber, the iconic blade slicing through the air with that famous hum. Lightsabers seem to make everything better, from to , and even ...

GOD, weird. So a while back I called WickedLasers’ Spyder III a “real life lightsaber.” (It wasn’t quite that cool in practice). LucasFilm took issue and threw a fit. Here’s the whole saga (and ME) ...