{"id":114475,"date":"2020-10-15T18:40:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T01:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/canadian-youtubers-engineer-hyper-realistic-plasma-lightsaber-that-can-cut-through-steel"},"modified":"2020-10-15T18:40:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T01:40:36","slug":"canadian-youtubers-engineer-hyper-realistic-plasma-lightsaber-that-can-cut-through-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/canadian-youtubers-engineer-hyper-realistic-plasma-lightsaber-that-can-cut-through-steel","title":{"rendered":"Canadian YouTubers engineer hyper-realistic plasma lightsaber that can cut through steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xC6J4T_hUKg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Looks like we have a real lightsaber now.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>James Hobson\u2019s lightsaber is not a toy.<\/p>\n<p>The YouTuber and his team at Hacksmith Industries in Kitchener, Ont., have created a hyper-realistic, retractable plasma lightsaber that reaches a scorching heat of 2,200 C.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s above the melting point of most metals,\u201d Hobson told <em>As It Happens<\/em> host Carol Off. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like we have a real lightsaber now. James Hobson\u2019s lightsaber is not a toy. The YouTuber and his team at Hacksmith Industries in Kitchener, Ont., have created a hyper-realistic, retractable plasma lightsaber that reaches a scorching heat of 2,200 C. \u201cThat\u2019s above the melting point of most metals,\u201d Hobson told As It Happens host [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}