If you have found yourself with spare time on your hands over the long holiday weekend and feel like some DIY tinkering, the folks at Spark.io have an interesting new project in honor of the new The ...

Like many others, I was enchanted by The Hobbit (and later Lord of the Rings) at a young age - long before Peter Jackson turned J R R Tolkien's middle-earth fantasy books into a series of blockbuster ...

Whilst the original Sting glowed blue as a defensive alert, Spark’s “WarSting” is all about aggression. The project hacks a toy Hobbit sword and teaches it to glow blue when vulnerable WiFi is ...

Having an early warning system for nearby orcs and goblins is undoubtedly handy, but how about unsecured wi-fi? A group of enterprising programmers over at Spark.io have taken a toy version of Bilbo’s ...

WarSting is a weapon worthy of a true arch-nerd (Picture: We Live Security) A soldering iron-smith has created a weapon worthy of a true arch-nerd – a Hobbit-style ‘Sting’ sword which glows when there ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ever wanted to try on hairy Hobbit feet or wield Frodo's sword? Fans of Peter Jackson's epic fantasy film series "The Lord of the Rings" will have the opportunity to bid on ...

Ed Sheeran was given a real sword from the set of The Hobbit by Peter Jackson, but almost managed to impale his mate Taylor Swift on the end of it. The 'A-Team' singer was travelling on a private ...