Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Tractor Beams Come To Life

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday September 08, @12:26PM
from the da-da-da-dadada-dadada dept.
Jamie is helping bring our childhood fantasies/nightmares to life with a link that says"Andrei Rhode, a researcher involved with the project, said that existing optical tweezers are able to move particles the size of a bacterium a few millimeters in a liquid. Their new technique can move objects one hundred times that size over a distance of a meter or more."

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