Metafilter’s Matt Haughey recreated the Star Wars Kid video with a MacBook and software called MacSaber, which makes lightsaber sounds as the motion-sensor-equipped notebook is swung around.
The result is hilarious. Writes Matt: “I went for accuracy, combing my hair down, putting on tight khakis and a striped tight shirt, and following his first set of movements.”
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12 responses to “Star Wars Kid Recreated with MacBook”
That poor Star Wars kid :D
Saw a better one on youtube
What does this really do the HDD in the macbook?
In reality the sounds are not being generated by the MacSaber app but are the whining sound from the Macbook pro. Clever to move the laptop around to make it look like a special program…
(uhm, ok, I realize it’s a MacBook on this particular video)
Steffen: It’s undoubtedly the computer playing sounds through the speakers. I’ve tried it on my MacBook, and there’s no way the HDD would make that much racket.
I was so hoping he’d accidentally throw it against the wall.