Swordis give the honour of being the world’s greatest mystery sword to Guan Yu’s Green Dragon Crescent Blade.
Sneak launches the Year of the Bunny: Fuel for your anime marathon and custom swords
There’s a kick-ass mecha-bunny cyberpunk short on their Year of the Bunny page, which is worth a watch.
Arm yourself as an official Demon Slayer with these sword props
Today you can pre-order not one but several different Demon Slayer props.
Hero’s Armory sword house keys
If you can’t actually turn your home into a castle (dratted abundance of planning regulations and absence of gold) then you can at least have a house key befitting a knight.
Enough science to magic up an ice sword
Have you wielded an ice sword in an RPG or watched an anime where one was summoned? The scientific problem is pretty straight forward. The solution; toilet paper. It’s just possible that after this video from Sufficiently Advanced gamer groups around the world will be adding Pykrete to their vocabulary and list of ways to […]
Amazing Samurai slices baseball in two
In the past we’ve wondered whether we’ve had archery all wrong with demonstrations of how old styles were both quick and powerful. There’s never been a suggestion we’ve underplayed the skill of swordsmanship in RPGs, though. We know that some of the high action stunts we see on TV are appropriate to cinematic style RPGs […]
Iaijutsu sword master versus MOTOMAN-MH24 industrial robot
Should we teach industrial robots to use katana? Machii Isao holds five Guinness World Records including the marathon 1,000 iaido sword cuts whch took just over 36 minutes. In this challenge the advanced industrial robot, the MOTOMAN-MH24, was taught Machii’s style (and we can see him help the robot) and then put against him. The […]
Turning soda cans into swords
Some geeks are brave. As much as this video is cool I’m not sure I’d be up for working with such high temperatures in such casual conditions. Would you? What would you make? The King of Random is typically impressive; pulling a Zelda like sword from the sands after using his home-made foundry to melt […]
Geek-perfect Sting sword replica glows when near wifi
Bilbo Baggins’ magic sword was called Sting and it glowed blue whenever orcs came too close. That’s pretty useful when you’re a Hobbit. Over at Make.com Krista Peryer has the story of a new generation of Sting, a geek perfect sword, a sword called WarSting. WarString glows whenever it detects unsecured wifi networks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmjkUv5OtLM By […]
Forging the Assassin’s Creed hidden blade and cutlass
This video, part of the Man at Arms series, shows sword-smith Tony Swatton reproducing the iconic hidden blade from the Assassin’s Creed series. Since Swatton is really known for his sword skills the blacksmith also goes on to create the pirate cutlass that the assassin from Assassin’s Creed IV uses. This isn’t the first time […]
