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 ...

Can a real-life lightsaber handle 2500° of pure power? In this video, we take on the ultimate challenge: building a protosaber that brings sci-fi dreams closer to reality! From fire department visits ...

Few sci-fi weapons are more mind-blowing than the lightsaber made famous by Luke Skywalker in Star Wars. Capable of cutting through metal and deflecting laser blasts, its the iconic Jedi accessory, ...

Person holding Adafruit 3d printed lightsaber with purple blade - Adafruit Industries Lightsabers are easily the most iconic and popular piece of tech from "Star Wars." Who wouldn't want to own a ...

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 ...

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 ...