This tractor beam won't pull Ferengi ships into Uranus, but it is really neat.

Ahhh yeah ya'll, I hope everybody brought along an extra change of clothes today -things are about to get sweaty and sexy- because we're gonna' be discussing lasers, folks, specifically how one might turn a laser into a tractor beam.

There are many technologies that "Star Trek" anticipated, although sadly for horny lonely people and thankfully for the continued existence of the human race, the Holodeck remains fiction.

Yes, Virginia, they really are working on a tractor beam.