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coyotino [he/him] ( theangriestbird@beehaw.org )  to TechnologyEnglish · 2 years ago

How Star Wars walked away from the world’s first self-retracting lightsaber toy [The Verge]

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coyotino [he/him] ( theangriestbird@beehaw.org )  to TechnologyEnglish · 2 years ago
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The Goliath Power Saber.
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    Smart to have a buyback clause in the contract, otherwise this would’ve been lost and locked until the patent expired.

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