Sentences with phrase «tractor beams»

Publisher Interplay have activated their tractor beams and pulled in the abandoned space vessel once known as Freespace for a mere $ 7,500.

(a legal requirement of any arcade shooter) Loads of different of enemies, including huge boss warships, missile batteries, tractor beams and a deadly enemy ace pilot will challenge your arcade reflexes and endurance.

Auto rifles, rocket launchers, swords, and weirdo reverse - tractor beams.

Two types of items will be available: decorative hangar items like posters and trophies as well as ship upgrade parts like laser cannons and tractor beams.

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.

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.

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.

The original premise of them being out in space without The Federation, without shields or tractor beams, no prime directive, etc. was a great idea that could have lead to many exciting episodes.

Because this technique needs heated gas to push the particles around, it can't work in the vacuum of outer space like the tractor beams in Star Trek.

WASHINGTON (ISNS)-- Tractor beams, energy rays that can move objects, are a science fiction mainstay.

Once the stuff of science fiction, laboratory tractor beams are grabbing onto small objects in the lab.

The team have shown that three different shapes of acoustic force fields work as tractor beams.

Besides seriously impressing dinner guests, these DIY tractor beams have many potential uses and may even become a new tool for studying low - gravity effects on biological samples.

Scientists might use these tractor beams to separate mixtures of atoms or ions, for example, reeling in one type but not another.

Tractor beams have hit the big time.

Matter wave tractor beams could be made with beams of electrons, Novitsky says.

The bad news is, no tractor beams.

A new kind of tractor beam could use a beam of particles to reel in atoms or molecules, physicists propose in the May 5 Physical Review Letters.

Waves from a new tractor beam, illustrated at right, bounce off the sides of an object and rebound upward.

The researchers didn't actually reel in an object, but they demonstrated that an ultrasound tractor beam could do the job.

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.

Ultrasonic waves can penetrate the body relatively gently, he notes, so the sonic tractor beam might be used to remove kidney stones and clots, deliver drug - laden capsules to various parts of the body, or control microsurgical instruments.

Moving the nanoparticles in the study required a couple of watts of optical power — the equivalent of thousands of heat - producing laser pointers — which means a tractor beam big enough to lasso a spaceship is still (light) years away.

«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.

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).

So far, none of the teams has actually created a tractor beam.

With those limitations overcome, the group developed the rest of the tractor beam system using easily accessible components, such as from the popular open - source electronics supplier, Arduino.

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.

The sound passes through these tubes and when it exits the metamaterial, it has the correct phases to create a tractor beam,» said Marzo.

This image shows levitating a 3 cm diameter expanded polysterine sphere with a DIY portable tractor beam.

How about using a tractor beam to simply steer future junk aside, says space - flight engineer John Sinko of Nagoya University, Japan.

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

Researchers have now built a working tractor beam that uses high - amplitude sound waves to generate an acoustic hologram which can pick up and move small objects.

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.

Last year, the University of Dundee presented the concept of a tractor beam but no objects were held in the ray.

«Sonic tractor beam moves stuff with sound.»

A team of researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex in collaboration with Ultrahaptics has built a novel sonic tractor beam that can lift and move objects using sound waves.

University of Bristol research assistant Asier Marzo, the lead author of an article on the project recently published in the journal Applied Physics Letters, says that the acoustic tractor beam relies on the fact that sound is a mechanical wave that carries momentum.

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.

At one point he looked at me and I almost peed my pants — he is an actual tractor beam of hotness.

I'm in Cartagena, Colombia, where I flew hoping to escape the tractor beam of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Missiles, thrusters for flight and a suit - integrated tractor beam complement this powerhouse.

You won't find any sales people pulling you into their gaze with a Star Wars - like tractor beam as you come onto the lot.

A little about Boise Auto Clearance: You won't find any sales people pulling you into their gaze with a Star Wars - like tractor beam.

When word came out that Amazon was pulling social network Goodreads into its acquisitional tractor beam, reaction seemed to fall into one of two categories... Travis Jonker, a librarian who blogs at 100 Scope Notes, falls somewhere in between.

The laughing, oohs and ahhs, and the playful threats shouted across the half circle of seats were sucking me in like a tractor beam.

To score new weapons, the game also has a tractor beam you can fire at enemies.

Flying freely through the odd and fantastic surroundings, a powerful tractor beam lets you pick up objects and interact with the world.

The ship grabs these beacons like a tractor beam, circling the beacon like an orbit.

The other less than common birds seem to be the force - push bird, the pilot bird (who splits into three fighters), the boosting chewbacca bird and the cinnabun - haired Leia impersonator bird with a tractor beam.