Science of Star Wars

For those of you who can t get enough of Star Wars, C3PO and R2D2 are in the hot seat this month as they present evidence of how the movie influenced scientific development in the world at large. Although created nearly 30 years ago, the inventions of Star Wars were so futuristic that many of them are only being built today. The imagination that inspired them inspired a generation of inventors, who have brought us yet again to the precipice of a new wave of life-changing technology.