In his breathtaking profile of Jony Ive in the latest issue of The New Yorker, Ian Parker drops a bombshell. You know that crossguard lightsaber in J.J. Abrams’ new Star Wars movie? The gnarly, rough-around-the-edges one seen in the latest trailer? You can give Ive credit for inspiring it.
That got Martin Hajek thinking. The Dutch CGI modeler, who always loves rendering potential Ive designs, wondered what it would look like if Apple produced a lightsaber. Not something rough and spitty, but just as refined as any other Apple product. And so, the iSaber was born.
Like all of Hajek’s work, this brings a smile to my face.
I love all the little details that make this so whimsical, like the brilliant Control Center at the bottom of the iSaber’s screen, which contains a camera and flashlight buttons.
And is that a Lightning port at the end, to make charging your lightsaber as easy as charging an iPhone? Brilliant.
There’s even an iPod nano-style lanyard, to prevent this from happening:
Genius. Check Hajek’s site for more pics!
Source: The Apple Lightsaber
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
5 responses to “What if Apple made a lightsaber?”
iPod Touch has the button for the loop, not iPod Nano…
I can tell you the logo wouldn’t glow and there wouldn’t be a touch screen where your hands wrap around.
Unibody, one size fits all reinvented iVibrator with slide to unlock.
Looks like a dildo! Perfect for self-pleasuring iSheep…
It would break when you drop it and they would come out with an “upgrade” every year equally as overpriced.