Get ready for the world’s first 4000° plasma lightsaber with a retractable blade. Watch as I demonstrate the technology behind this sci-fi dream turned reality and see it in action like never before!

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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 ...

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This is real. Hero Tech has built a retractable light saber that is using no visual effects. You cannot fight with it but it looks like the movie light saber. The two led light strips are attached to ...

He now tells The Verge he’s not sure it’s happening, but he may have said too much. He now tells The Verge he’s not sure it’s happening, but he may have said too much. is a senior editor and founding ...

Children all over the world wanted lightsabers at one point or another in their lives, and when toy lightsabers first hit the shelves, fans rushed to buy one. And as dangerous as a real-life ...