Official Star Wars Drones

Hold on to your helmets: unveiled in London yesterday by Propel, four official Star Wars drones—a speeder bike, an X-Wing, the Millennium Falcon and a Tie fighter. The quadcopters promise to fly at up to 40mph, do 360-degree tricks, and even feature “laser-based fighting mechanics that let up to 24 quadcopters battle simultaneously mid-air.” They’ll be priced at $200-$300, but won’t be available in the …

Edward Snowden’s Design Will Check if Your iPhone’s Snitching

Edward Snowden has been researching with hardware hacker Andrew “Bunnie” Huang to design a device that will check on your iPhone—just to make sure if it is (or, rather, isn’t) snitching on you. The case-like creation will access your iPhone’s insides and monitor electrical signals—essentially letting the user know, at all times, if their phone radio is transmitting any information. Snowden spoke to Wired on …

Nintendo Set to Release Miniature NES

Nintendo (hot on the heels of the enormous success of Pokemon Go) has announced it will be releasing a miniature version of the original classic Nintendo. Complete with 30 games pre-loaded—including Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros, and a couple Zelda games—the mini NES is small enough to fit in one hand and is sure to give kids and kids at heart plenty of …