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How to make a watermelon explode with your mind

That's right folks, the Force is real – and you can channel it to make exploded fruit smoothies. Yummy.

We’ve dreamt of harnessing the powers of the Force ever since a certain Mr Skywalker lifted his ship out of a murky swamp on Dagobah. Sadly our efforts have so far proven to be futile, with nothing more than strained eyes and thumping headaches to show for our attempts at telekinesis.

Thankfully a group of dedicated tinkerers from LVL1 in America have taken matters into their own hands by allowing you to blow up watermelons with nothing but your mind. Sort of.

By linking a Star Wars Force Trainer headset to a CO2 cannon embedded within unfortunate melons, aspiring Jedis are able to blow the doomed fruits into smithereens by concentrating hard enough. Actually that sounds more like Scanners than Star Wars, come to think of it.

Not quite mystical universal forces then, but it’s as close as you’re going to get without injecting yourself with synthetic Midi-chlorians. Which, by the way, we’re currently working on.

Check out our best Star Wars merchandise roundup for even more Force goodness.

[lvl1, YouTube, via Dvice]

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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