Quick Summary
If you want to rid yourself of flying pests in style, the Bug Saber could be the answer.
Designed around a Star Wars-style lightsaber, the bug zapper carries a 4,000 V charge – more than enough to fry the flies.
The UK is in the middle of a heatwave as I write this and bugs are seemingly everywhere. To be honest, it's a big problem during every summertime, and that's why I own a bug zapper – a tennis racket-style device that delivers a fatal electric charge to flying pests when I hit them.
The only problem is they're speedy little beggars and not exactly easy to swat. So if there was also an element that would attract them more, and even provide additional fun in the process, I'd be all over that like a swarm of gnats.
Well, there is.
The Bug Saber is a 4,000V bug zapper that, as the name suggests, is designed to look a bit like a Star Wars lightsaber.
It adds a lightsaber-like hilt so you can live out your Jedi Knight fantasies as you fry the flies, and the ring on the outside glows in different colours. According to Yanko Design, it also makes familiar sounds as you wave it around, which adds to the experience.
I particularly like that you can also place it in a holder and leave it standing indoors and out, with the LEDs attracting the bugs and the high voltage dispensing of them.
You do have to be careful around it, of course, and if you have young kids it's probably not wise to leave a toy-looking electric shock machine lurking around. But for the rest of us, this ticks those boxes between practicality and a bit of harmless fun (except to bugs, that is).
The Bug Saber is currently in a pre-order / crowd funding phase on Kickstarter, so you can check it out there.
Prices start at a very reasonable £18 / $24 for the head alone, although you'll have to pay at least £41 / $54 for the starter set that includes the saber hilt.
The complete experience set, which includes the vertical stand, will set you back £52 / $69.
The Kickstarter phase will expire in just over a week from now and stock is running out, so it's worth getting in there as quick as you can if you want to deal some Darth Vader death blows to your backyard bugs.
