Walt Disney Imagineering has created some pretty incredible stuff over the decades, but few have been quite as embraced as Walt Disney World’s “real” lightsaber. It was fully extendable, just like the ...

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 ...

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When lightsabers first appeared on screen, they were nothing more than special effects and movie props. Fans could only imagine what it would be like to hold one in real life. Fast forward to today, ...