Lightsaber nunchucks outmack Darth Maul (flag)

gadgets.boingboing.net — Lightsaber nunchucks: the realization of at least some twelve year old's fever dream. In universe, these would not be pragmatic: there's a reason a Jedi's lightsaber handle is not made of the same material as the blade... namely, the plasmic energy of ten thousand suns. Still, even though these ...

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lightsaber nunchucks: *facepalm*
technabob — ... you can easily make and possibly even sell your own version of lightsaber nunchucks. Just know that the glowing part is supposed to be pure energy, so if you really had a pair of lightsaber nunchucks, you can only hold them once. And then you won’t be able to hold anything at all. Click to View Embedded Video Clip Unless you were wearing gloves with a cortosis weave. But then that would short out the lightsaber. I will stop now. [via Boing Boing Gadgets] ...

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