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We’ve seen the memorable ending scene of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope recreated with LEGO and in Minecraft, but YouTuber Boone Calhoun is working on a way to not just recreate but to experience the scene through Luke’s point of view as well: a 3D videogame version that’s meant to be played using the Oculus Rift.

Boone hasn’t released the game yet, but if you have the Oculus Rift you can check out how it will look in the video below:

I wonder if Desert Bus will be more fun or more excruciating with the Oculus Rift.

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At last, a toy that lets a TIE Fighter chase an X-Wing, just like during the big Death Star battle scene in A New Hope! A Trench run that is never-ending, thanks to its figure-eight slot car track. The Star Wars Battling Fighters Set is a slot car set where the “cars” are space ships that we all know and love.

One player pilots Luke Skywalker’s “Red Five” X-Wing, while Vader’s TIE fighter gives chase. Apparently this set takes some skill to play with because the ships are slightly wider than the track. Therefore it should be challenging for either player.

The ships have LEDs that light up when racing too. And like any good kids toy, the 12-foot figure-eight track has glow-in the-dark striping for nighttime play. It will cost you $99.95 over at Hammacher Schlemmer. Completely worth it as far as I’m concerned.

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I won’t even try to pretend this is a new project, but I just happened across the for the first time and it’s awesome. One of the most iconic scenes in all of the Star Wars films is when Han Solo was frozen in Carbonite at the end of The Empire Strikes Back. Some very artistic geeks at Tom Spina Designs created a replica of Han Solo’s chemical hibernation and used it to make a really cool desk.

The desk looks a lot like the floating thing Solo’s Carbonite statue was embedded in complete with panels on the side facing away from the desk user. The Carbonite statue is made from fiberglass and covered with a glass top allowing it to be used as a normal desk.

I want to know how much something like this would cost to make, it’s safe to say “lots” is the answer. I think if Jabba the Hutt ever went legit, this would be the desk he would use.

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The latest science news out of Harvard and MIT sounds like a joke, but it’s not. A team of physicists were fooling around with photons when they managed to get the particles to clump together to form a molecule, one that’s unlike any other matter. And it behaves, they say, just like a lightsaber.

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The space opera known as Star Wars has six major films shot about it in total, and we do know that there will be a third trilogy coming our way thanks to the folks over at Disney. However, debates continue to rage on by fanboys, and depending on whose side of the fence you are on, the Rebel Alliance or the Galactic Empire ought to rule the galaxy for good. One of the epic moments in the movies would be the space fighter battles, where various X-Wings, Y-Wings and A-Wings go up against a variety of TIE Fighters, and the X-Wing is the definitive starship fighter (“S Foils in attack position!”) for the Rebel Alliance, while the TIE Advanced fighter that was piloted by Darth Vader with a hyperspace engine saved the Dark Lord of the Sith’s rear end when he was blasted out of the Death Star’s trench, is one worth adversary.

Who is better? Why not settle the score once and for all with the $99.95 Star Wars Battling Fighters Set, where the respective ships happen to be a wee bit wider compared to the track. Should Darth Vader in his TIE Advanced manages to catch up to Luke Skywalker’s X-Wing and the latter nudged off the track, all hope is lost for the galaxy. Integrated LEDs in the ships will light up whenever they racing, and the 12-foot figure-eight track bears glow-in the-dark striping for nighttime runs.

[ Star Wars Battling Fighters Set settles the score once and for all copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]