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George Lucas shills for clunky camcorder in '80s Japanese ad

Now that George Lucas is one of the richest men on the planet, it's unlikely we'll see him pitching us a product (a non-Star Wars-themed one, anyway), but back in the '80s, things were a little bit different. MORE

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By Scott Edelman

5:54PM on Mar 15, 2011

brain-machine interface • Star Wars

Lucas files $5 million suit against 'Jedi technology' company

When George Lucas came up with Star Wars, he probably never dreamed he'd end up playing Whack-a-Mole with products he felt encroached too closely on his territory. Last month, we told you about a lightsaber that could take your eye out. And now he's going after a wireless headset that allows you to control computers with your brainwaves. MORE

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By Scott Edelman

11:17AM on Aug 24, 2010

2001 • GPS • predictions

Arthur C. Clarke's 1956 letter predicting GPS and satellite TV

We've long known about Arthur C. Clarke's prediction way back in 1945 that artificial satellites placed in a geostationary orbit could be used to relay radio signals around the world — but we had no idea that 11 years later, he revisited his famous essay "Extra-Terrestrial Relays — Can Rocket Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?" to predict the GPS… and more. MORE

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By Scott Edelman

4:39PM on Jul 26, 2010

Space • x-rays

NASA satellite blinded by largest burst of gamma rays ever

A gamma-ray burst from a star that collapsed to form a black hole long before our sun and planets formed overwhelmed NASA's orbiting Swift observatory, temporarily blinding it. The explosion from the flare-up, known as GRB 100621A, reached Earth on June 21, and its light was 140 times brighter than the brightest steady source of X-rays, a neutron star 500,000 times closer to Earth. MORE

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By Scott Edelman

4:49PM on Jul 16, 2010

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