How close is Star Wars tech to reality?

1977 was a memorable year. The first all-in-one home computer was demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show, Apple Computers is founded, snow falls in Miami for the only time in recorded history, the space shuttle has its first test flight and Elvis Presley performs his final concert before dying later that year. All of that […]

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Could you own a lightsaber in real life?

In 1977 George Lucas’ film Star Wars took us to a galaxy far, far away. Cool futuristic technology allowed people to travel at the speed of light through space, to use directed energy weapons to kill people (and whole planets) and to have your own walking and talking personal assistant, just as long as you […]

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