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Title: So we have Tractor Beams. The future is NOW!
Post by: Thrawn on August 29, 2002, 04:43:23 PM

Magazine shines light on start-up's 'tractor beam'

August 21, 2002

BY SANDRA GUY SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST  
 

"The product, called the BioRyx 200, acts much like tiny tweezers by using 200 laser beams to grab (hence the tractor beam), move, spin, assemble and control small particles such as cells and sperm."

http://www.suntimes.com/output/zinescene/cst-fin-ecol21.html

Title: So we have Tractor Beams. The future is NOW!
Post by: BenDover on August 29, 2002, 08:54:52 PM

hmm, i'm sure i read something about a scotish person who made the first tractor beam, over 6 months ago i think it was