Who wouldn’t want to own a real lightsaber? This marvelous piece of fictional technology is the preferred weapon of Jedi and Sith warriors in the Star Wars universe. As shown in the various Star Wars franchise movies, this humming energy blade weapon is available in a wide assortment of colors and can cut through metal as easily as it cuts through a Jedi trainee’s arm. When not being used, the lightsaber can be turned off and the glowing energy blade will vanish, leaving an easily portable hilt. OK, so maybe a lightsaber doesn’t have many practical real world applications. Still, we really wish these fictional gadgets were real, if only to let us more easily trim our hedges at night.
Incredibly, a recent scientific discovery could one day lead to the creation of this unlikely weapon. According to The Guardian, scientists from Harvard and MIT have discovered a way to bond photons together into a new molecule that could potentially be used to create a lightsaber. “It’s not an in-apt analogy to compare this to lightsabers,” said physics professor Mikhail “Skywalker” Lukin. “When these photons interact with each other, they’re pushing against and deflect each other. The physics of what’s happening in these molecules is similar to what we see in the movies.”
Honorable mention: While there doesn’t appear to be any light-based swords portrayed in other movies, Sulu (John Cho) in 2009’s Star Trek had a sword that could retract into an easily portable hilt much like a lightsaber.
That’s it for our list of ten fictional technologies seen in movies that we wish were real. Let us know what your favorite fictional movie gadgets are by voting in the comments or writing in your own favorites.
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