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Star Wars fans from all over the East Coast crossed lightsabers at New York City's Washington Square Park for what might be the world's largest lightsaber battle. More »
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Recently I was invited to, and attended, a lightsaber fight in a park. The organizer supplied the entire battle with lightsabers from her own collection. I took the opportunity to ask her opinion on the best online saber sources. More »
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YouTube user TroopTrent has built his own hovering lightsaber training droid from A New Hope. Of course, the droid doesn't attack you, but nothing's stopping you from wearing a frosted helmet and complaining at it. More »
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Missile 1, Flying Laser 0. So much for America's real-life "lightsaber." More »
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Do you want to build your own lightsaber at home but have no idea where to start? Bradley W. Lewis has created step-by-step guide explaining how to weld, screw, and paint a laser sword into existence, sans the Force. More »
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I'm not crushing dreams or bursting bubbles with this post. I don't think anyone believed they'd ever run around with actual light sabers. Still, let's take a look at what separates the impossible from the preposterous. More »
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An upcoming television show explains why real life lightsabers are a physical impossibility, before building the next best thing. It's like Mythbusters but, surprisingly, made with even more awesome. More »
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You are looking at 1301 fluorescent bulbs planted in an English farm, powered entirely by electrical fields generated by the power lines that float in curves over the top of this field. More »
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Someone at Yahoo! Answers asks: "Can a Jedi lightsaber cut through Superman?" In other words: is Superman more powerful than a Midichlorian? You'll never be able to get this question out of your head without at least trying to answer it. More »
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The Hoff, wearing buckets of makeup, fences with killer bots in Star Crash. The worst of the late 70s Star Wars knockoffs, Crash features lots of Harryhausen-style stop motion animation alongside widescreen space battles. Caroline Munroe has really shiny hair and low-cut tops. But my favorite character is the Southern-accented android (Hamilton Camp), who looks like Darth Vader but is named Elle and wears a rainbow flag on the back of his belt. Click through for a video of the climactic battle and Elle's daring escape. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=342318&view=rss&microfeed=true Ruffians outside bakeries are no match for the power of the Force, it seems. An 11-year-old boy fended off his mom's attacker today in England with his lightsaber. Next he'll be trying to mind-trick his mom into extra servings of dessert. (Thanks, Rick!) More »
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A spaceship or a gigantic death ray is cool, but wouldn't you rather have an awesome scifi gadget you could slip into your pocket or clip to your belt for easy access? When you're on the interstellar warpath, you want the very best, so we've put together a list of some science fiction mobile devices that will make your life a little bit easier in about a century. Start filling up your pockets! More »
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