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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, where he spent the past four ...

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 ...

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 ...