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 ...

Join us as we build a real-life lightsaber by heating a titanium blade to 3,000°F, merging cutting-edge engineering with science fiction dreams. Witness the challenges and triumphs of this ...

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, ...

Lightsaber battles are among the most iconic elements of the "Star Wars" universe, but they might not be as fun to watch if they happened in real life.

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 ...

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) ...