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Lyft is making a habit of teaming up with big names, as it explores new ways of moving people around. The latest is Disney Parks, which has today announced an on-demand mobility service that will ferry visitors around resorts in Lyft's so-called Minnie Vans.

Attendees of Florida's Walt Disney World Resort this coming holiday season will be treated to a different kind of light show, with Intel's Shooting Star drones forming colorful, flying animations across the night sky.

Among the flood of toys that accompanied Star Wars Episode VII last year, Sphero’s app-controlled BB-8 was a clear standout. With this year's version, Sphero makes users feel (kind of) like a Jedi (sometimes) with the Force Band, a wearable that allows BB-8 to be steered with motion controls.

​There’s nary a Star Wars fan alive who hasn’t at some point swung a makeshift lightsaber around. A new patent awarded to Disney suggests that future visitors to Disneyland may get a more hands-on experience, using a physical lightsaber to deflect lasers fired at them by animatronic bad guys.

Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University researchers have built a smartwatch prototype that can detect items the user is holding in real-time, by tuning into the distinct electromagnetic noise signatures they emit.

In a blow for asymmetry, Disney Research Zurich and ETH Zurich have developed a computer algorithm that can take any shape, no matter how cock-eyed, and make it spin like a top.

Disney World recently commemorated the opening of the New Fantasyland expansion in the Magic Kingdom by having a mechanical flying dragon soar over the grounds on its own.

Disney Research has created an animatronic robot that can play catch and juggle balls with a human partner.

Chevy has worked closely with Disney to update the Test Track attraction to allow guests to design and test their own automotive designs.

Disney recently received a patent that outlines plans for augmented reality cakes and other food products that would display interactive movies and images onto edible treats.

Researchers at Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon are experimenting with 3D printed optics that use internal structures to focus and channel light.

Disney researchers have invented a process to create more realistic animatronic heads.