The one-day course at Queen’s University Belfast is not a Jedi primer. Instead, the goal is to teach the “real-life psychological techniques behind Jedi mind tricks” and explore “wider issues behind the Star Wars universe, like balance, destiny, dualism, fatherhood and fascism.” And no lightsaber technique, sorry!
Make the Mos Eisley beer run at 25 mph in the life-size, driveable landspeeder
Daniel Deutsch and friends created this fiberglass lifesize replica of Luke’s landspeeder from A New Hope. Just the thing to enjoy the last of summer! (via)
Real-life moisture vaporators?
Gizmodo spotted these Intelligent Monitoring Towers recently installed in Buenos Aires. Their intention is to measure air and noise quality, but is it really that far a jump to consider them collecting moisture on Tatooine? Or at least hanging out in the general vicinity?