Sentences with phrase «by a tractor beam»

A platform tiled with ultrasound - emitting speakers can get small objects to hover, spin, move around and get reeled in as if pulled by a tractor beam (shown).

Asier Marzo, PhD student and the lead author, said: «It was an incredible experience the first time we saw the object held in place by the tractor beam.

It pulls visitors from across the room as if enabled by a tractor beam.

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Further discoveries and patents led to WGM biosensors capable of gauging the mass of viruses, proteins and other nanoparticles by sending them into spacecraft - like orbit around the micro-bead, thanks to a photonic «tractor beam» caused by the resonating light.

The tractor beam works by surrounding the object with high - intensity sound and this creates a force field that keeps the objects in place.

You have things like jump pads, tractor beams, laser beams, red goo that makes you run at break neck speak, blue goo that makes you bounce around the room, that is all well and good, but what I am excited about most is the fact that you are playing in a dilapidated Aperture science reasearch facility, and the facility is being brought back to life by GLaDOS while you play the game.

First off, it was just as sleek and sexy, just as much the tractor beam for passerby's gazes parked by the curb on my block as it's been in auto shows around the world.