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The 'Star Wars' Tech Legacy

by Tim Stevens on May 30, 2007 at 11:15 AM



This summer marks the 30th-anniversary of the release of the first 'Star Wars' film, which has since been subtitled 'Episode IV: A New Hope.' Though that film and the two following it took place A LONG TIME AGO, they all displayed technologies far more advanced than what we had in the '70s and even what we have today.

Even so, we've come close to Star Wars technology in a few areas. eWeek has put together a slide show of a variety of modern-day technologies and techniques that could very well have taken their inspiration from scenes in 'Star Wars.' Take the US Air Force's Predator drones, for example, which are easily compared to the Empire's Aerial Spy Droids in 'The Empire Strikes Back.' Or there's R2-D2's constant hacking of Empire machines, decades before Kevin Mitnik would set government network administrators on edge.

However, for every 'Star Wars'-era gadget we have today, there are dozens that still haven't made it into our modern world, including laser blasters, moon-sized space stations, hyperdrive, and, of course, the ubiquitous flying car, perhaps the most frequently predicted gadget that's yet to actually appear in reality.

From eWeek

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