The Force comes in really handy some mornings. -via Geeks Are Sexy

As I watched the beginning of this video, I thought, “Why doesn’t anyone just get a gun?” Then, at the 2:20 mark, everything suddenly made sense. I never saw that one coming.

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First it was kittens, and now it’s turtles! All of the animals are getting into the action — which is making trips to the vet difficult, I can tell you. It’s not the lightsabers that I mind so much as the mind tricks.

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Is your favorite Asian meal lacking something epic?  Bring the force back to your dinner table with the Lightsaber Chopsticks from the NeatoShop.   This out of this world set features the lightsabers of Luke Skywalker and Yoda.  Mealtime just became Jedi approved.

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fantastic Star Wars items!

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One of Freddie Wong‘s best short films was Jedi A-Holes — a brief glimpse into the world of criminally miscreant Jedi. He’s back with the same theme, and the same two Jedi knights causing mischief in their town.

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She even admits to using Jedi mind tricks during interviews with suspects in ‘an effort to achieve the truth’, although she tells industry magazine Police Review that she does not use ‘The Force’ to influence what suspects say or do.

Jedi mind tricks are used in the Star Wars movies by characters Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker to ‘influence the minds of weak-minded sentient beings’ to get them to do what you want them to do.

PC Fleming, who is one of ten police workers – eight of them officers – at Strathclyde Police who have listed their religion as Jedi, said her faith helped her ‘fight crime and disorder on Glasgow’s streets’.

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Remember the hovering sphere that Luke Skywalker used during his early lightsaber training with Obi-Wan Kenobi? YouTube user trooperkent made one of his own out of a hovering globe.

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A long time ago, in a yearbook far far away … there was a little boy by the name of Knight whose parents must’ve been really big Star Wars fans. So big that they named their boy … Jed I. Knight – via about:blank

Origami, the age-old discipline of folding paper into amazing figures, has its own masters, and as this post demonstrates, these geniuses can truly transform paper into any form they desire.

Origami – the traditional Japanese art of paper folding – is something that a geek could really get into. It’s all about visual math, and problem-solving, but with that artistic nuance as well. The origami artists below came up with some very cool designs, which we can definitely appreciate – so check them out!

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Geeksaresexy.

What’s more awesome than Star Wars? How about a cross stitch of lightsaber duelin’ jedi Kirby by Flickr user gamerghoul13? Link – via Geekadelphia

Talkin’ bout Jedi Kirby, here’s an animated gif by deviantArt user Yoshio1pal. Marvel at the awesomeness (or similarity to Star Wars Kid [wiki]) and weep:

The Force Trainer (expected to be priced at $90 to $100) comes with a headset that uses brain waves to allow players to manipulate a sphere within a clear 10-inch-tall training tower, analogous to Yoda and Luke Skywalker’s abilities in the Star Wars films. [...]

In the Force Trainer, a wireless headset reads your brain activity, in a simplified version of EEG medical tests, and the circuitry translates it to physical action. If you focus well enough, the training sphere, which looks like a ping-pong ball, will rise in the tower.

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