Sentences with phrase «first tractor beam»

«It was like sci - fi really happening inside my own lab,» said physicist Tomas Čižmár, describing the first tractor beam to pull an object with light, Star Wars - style.

Not exact matches

Last year Asier Marzo, then a doctoral student at the Public University of Navarre, helped develop the first single - sided acoustic tractor beam — that is, the first realization of trapping and pulling an object using sound waves from only one direction.

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.

Marzo and other researchers, in collaboration with a company called Ultrahaptics, used that concept to create the first - ever acoustic tractor beam, which they described in this 2015 article in the journal Nature.

The first act reintroduces you to the familiar portal mechanics of the first game, as well as adding springboards (Aerial Faith Plates), light bridges (Hard Light Bridges) and tractor beams (Excursion Funnels) to the mix.

One of the first things you notice about the film is that it's oddly bright — even dark shots catch the actors in tractor beams of light, while the majority of the action takes place in the daytime (here we have a Dracula who seems to be immune to sunlight)-- and unapologetically sharp.

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.