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Giving A Baby A Lightsabre Is Never A Good Idea

Imagine a world where lightsabres are real. Totally awesome, yeah? All fun and games, right? But not really when a baby gets his hands on a lightsabre. When they start waving things around, you’re at their mercy. Fingers, homes, human bodies and anything else are just in the way.


This Video Will Ruin Star Wars For You

It’s easy to pick on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace because of Jar Jar. And, well, everything else too. But you know what’s always fun about Star Wars? The lightsabre battles! This video, however, hilariously points out how silly they look like on closer inspection.


The Coolest Action Figures You Can’t Buy Yet

Toy Fair is full of lame jigsaw puzzles, toy horses and other antique things nobody cares about anymore. But! There’s also plenty of unreleased Star Wars, Spider Man and other stuff that makes us feel like excited kids again. Lightsabres!


Sharp Dressers Secure Ties, TIEs With Lightsabre Tie Tacks

When a sharp- dressed man can’t secure his tie in place with the Force, he’ll find a serviceable second in these lightsabre tie tacks. Light side or dark side from Kotobukiya for about $US40. [Kotobukiya via technabob]


Watch Hundreds Of New Yorkers Battle Like Darth Maul

New York City’s Washington Square Park was the host to a giant Lightsaber Battle. Almost a thousand people showed up to battle it out in epic Star Wars style.


Nothing Says ‘Steal Me’ Like Tokyo Lightsabre Train Hand Rails

The Force is strong with these promotional lightsabre hand rails, seen this past week in Tokyo as a way to promote the already massively successful Star Wars saga Blu-ray re-release. Let’s hope whatever’s holding them in place is equally strong.


Lightsabre-Wielding Robot Tracks Your Movements Like A Sith Lord

The JediBot, created by students at Stanford University, is a robotic arm that tests your skill with a lightsabre-ised foam sword. By using a Kinect, it’s able to home in on its enemy’s weapon and attack or defend accordingly.


The Two-Headed Sith Series Spyder III Laser: Death By Fun

In honour of May the Fourth (be with you), the real-life lightsabre has gone over to the dark side. The special “Sith Series” edition of the Spyder III, available now as an actual thing you can buy and use and burn things with, combines two Spyder III portable lasers locked together at the boring end by a Spyder interconnector. Holy hell that thing looks crazy.


You Can’t Beat An Old Man Lightsabre Fight

Two elderly French gentlemen engage in an argument over wine or baguettes or mandatory five-week holidays or what have you, when OH MAN LIGHTSABRES. Thank you, internet. I take back everything I ever said, etc.


Holy Crap, I’m In A Taiwanese Animation About That Lightsabre Laser

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GOD, weird. So a while back I called Wicked Lasers’ Spyder III a “real life lightsabre“. (It wasn’t quite that cool in practice). LucasFilm took issue and threw a fit. Here’s the whole saga (and ME) immortalised in Taiwanese CGI.


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