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The Register Lecture: How to build your own tractor beam

Lee D Silver badge

If Maplin's sold a tractor beam, that may well get them out of bankruptcy alone.

More likely though they'll sell you a cheap Chinese knockoff at 200% markup while a spotty teenager tries to get you to buy a box, some batteries and the windscreen for a Ford Anglia "to go with it".

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