Movie magic has been brought to life with the world’s first retractable lightsaber. YouTuber Alex Burkan, from Russia, was recently recognized by Guinness World Records as the creator of the world’s ...

That galaxy far, far away has seemingly found its way into reality via one savvy YouTube channel by the name of Alex Lab - emphasis on the "lab" portion. The Russian engineer, named Alex Burkan, is a ...

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You've got to hand it to Disney. Despite a relative dearth of Star Wars content launched on May 4, which apparently we're still not tired of calling Star Wars Day, the company still managed to ...

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 ...

A YouTuber in Russia has set a new world record for the first working, retractable lightsaber. The Star Wars-inspired technology uses white-hot elemental plasma, can run for up to 30 seconds at a time ...

At a recent virtual press conference, Disney Parks Chairman Josh D’Amaro apparently whipped out a retractable lightsaber. According to people who were actually there, this drama queen ended a ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Children all over the world wanted lightsabers at one point or another in their lives, and when toy lightsabers first hit the shelves, fans rushed to buy one. And as dangerous as a real-life ...

Movie magic has been brought to life with the world’s first retractable lightsaber. YouTuber Alex Burkan, from Russia, was recently recognized by Guinness World Records as the creator of the world’s ...