{"id":18889,"date":"2015-10-29T14:46:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T21:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/holographic-sonic-tractor-beam-lifts-and-moves-objects-using-soundwaves"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:28:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:28:06","slug":"holographic-sonic-tractor-beam-lifts-and-moves-objects-using-soundwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/holographic-sonic-tractor-beam-lifts-and-moves-objects-using-soundwaves","title":{"rendered":"Holographic sonic tractor beam lifts and moves objects using soundwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wDzhlW-rKvM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More *!* \u2014 WOW \u2014 *!*<br \/> How can anyone NOT love science?!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>Holograms (3-D light fields) can be projected from a 2-dimensional surface to control objects. (credit: Asier Marzo, Bruce Drinkwater and Sriram Subramanian)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>British researchers have built a working Star-Trek-style \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tractor_beam\" target=\"_blank\">tractor beam<\/a>\u201d \u2014 a device that can attract or repel one object to another from a distance. It uses high-amplitude soundwaves to generate an acoustic hologram that can grasp and move small objects.<\/p>\n<p>The technique, published in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ncomms\/2015\/151027\/ncomms9661\/full\/ncomms9661.html\" target=\"_blank\">open-access paper<\/a> in <em>Nature Communications <\/em>October 27, has a wide range of potential applications, the researchers say. A sonic production line could transport delicate objects and assemble them, all without physical contact. Or a miniature version could grip and transport drug capsules or microsurgical instruments through living tissue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/holographic-sonic-tractor-beam-lifts-and-moves-objects-using-soundwaves\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More *!* \u2014 WOW \u2014 *!* How can anyone NOT love science?! Holograms (3-D light fields) can be projected from a 2-dimensional surface to control objects. (credit: Asier Marzo, Bruce Drinkwater and Sriram Subramanian) British researchers have built a working Star-Trek-style \u201ctractor beam\u201d \u2014 a device that can attract or repel one object to another [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1914],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-tractor-beam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63833,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18889\/revisions\/63833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}