Hacksmith Industries may have started with sci-fi experiments and YouTube stunts, but its latest project is pure business. Co-founded by James Hobson and Ian Hillier, the team has just raised more ...

There’s been an endless number of real-life “lightsabers” made as one-offs or props, but most of them don’t do the film’s civilized blade justice in terms of raw power. A new, fully retractable plasma ...