Over the last few years, we’ve shown you several of the jaw-dropping creations of engineer and YouTuber the Hacksmith. He’s made a career of bringing the kind of impossible science we’ve seen in ...

I first came across the Hacksmith (aka James Hobson) more than a decade ago, when the former engineer and product developer dropped a video wherein he designed and built actual Wolverine claws.

There’s been an endless number of real-life “lightsabers” made as one-offs or props, but most of them don’t do the film’s civilized blade justice in terms of raw power. A new, fully retractable plasma ...

If there’s one thing we’ve learned after watching eight bazillion YouTube videos from engineers, it’s that shooting stuff from wrist gadgets is awesome—even if it’s just a few spritzes of hand ...

Canadian YouTuber the Hacksmith has created a Captain America shield with an inbuilt “Arc Reactor” for his latest project. And while the shield doesn’t actually contain a fusion-type power source made ...

The Hacksmith created a system for tracking eye motion to target shoulder mounted lasers. This is the equivalent functionality as superman’s heat vision. AdHawk and Wicked Lasers made the lasers. This ...

While fans of comics flock to movie theaters out of pure allegiance to see their favorite superheroes come to life, the fancy gadgets these heroes wield are enticing to audiences that aren’t ...

The Hacksmith Cybertruck looks like it's about the size of the Tesla Model 3, at least in the image below. While it's not actually quite that big, it has room for a few people and it's fully ...

What starts as a fun NERF showdown quickly turns into a full-blown turret war—and Hacksmith’s not ready for what’s coming. With precision targeting and rapid-fire chaos, the custom-built NERF turret ...