Sentences with phrase «tractor beams of»

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.

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.

It's as if artists, academics, curators, and critics are comfortable in a tractor beam of nostalgia that draws them forever back to some imagined wound in painting, a scab to peel back, and the same problems can forever be solved in similar ways.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

As much as Guardians largely thrives through its lovably scuzzy style, it can not avoid the immense tractor - beam pull of The Big Marvel Studios Final Act.

It's pretty hard to ignore Hugh Jackman when his tractor - beam eyes are pulling you straight into the abyss of his nostrils.

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.

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.

Pottermore's unprecedented agreement with the major retailers except Apple succeeds in breaking Harry Potter buyers free of those sites and tractor - beaming them in to Pottermore.

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

Wait until one of the top ships (the green ones that take two shots to kill) comes down and fires off a tractor beam (the beam that can capture your ship).

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.

(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.

While traversing the world you'll be collecting a total of nine unique tools ranging from the typical blaster to fight off shadow enemies, a claw to collect objects, remote - controlled rockets, ranging all the way to the classic UFO tractor beam in order to survive, collect relics, and progress.

«If you get caught in the Boss Galaga item's tractor beam, it will carry you away to the top of the screen.

Each of the game's four participants guides a flying saucer around each playfield, using a tractor beam to chaperone creatures like cows, camels, zombies, and even downed enemies toward a chikkinizer which converts any dropped organisms into poultry.

Such episodes don't occur often, because whenever they do, I'm instantly reminded of how bad the stuff actually tastes and am able to stave off the nostalgia - fueled McDonald's tractor beam for at least a year or so.

What these authors share seems to be a willingness to deviate a bit from the traditional strictures of legal writing (admittedly a scary prospect for a pre-tenure academic, or a lawyer composing a brief for a yet - to - be-named panel of judges) as well as a willingness to infuse their work with something of their personal style (rather than blindly imitating the expository style that sucks most legal writers in like a tractor beam).