She uses tack needles--not quite a quarter-inch long--for fine lines, and removes them with tweezers.
You'll need to buy tiny tweezers, a magnifying makeup mirror and special eyelash adhesive.
Although Yurke's tweezers are just a proof-of-principle, similar molecular motors might be used to assemble very tiny computer chips.
It's a box filled with like tweezers and deodorant, you know, things that suggest that you need a makeover.
Most importantly, the tweezers accomplished this without interfering with normal brain function.
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With magnifying glasses, tweezers, scalpels and many gallons of disinfectant, the mutilated-currency specialists can spend up to two years analysing a single bill.
Rather than being aimed at solving a computing problem, Yurke says the tweezers were just a way of making a spontaneously assembling miniature tool.
There is a man making a living as a female dancer, who decides to abandon tweezers and asks Mr Mehta to teach him to shave.
One is an adaptation of a well-known effect called "optical tweezers" in which objects can be trapped in the focus of one or two laser beams.
Further into the future, optical tweezers might offer a way of making objects such as computer memories whose components are but a few nanometres (billionths of a metre) across.
The grave, which dated back to the Roman Conquest, contained a body buried in a crouched position, two brooches, an armlet, copper tweezers, coins and glass beads.
In 2005, the TSA changed its policies to allow passengers to carry on airplanes small scissors, knitting needles, tweezers, nail clippers and up to four books of matches.
Many patient taxonomists from several European countries and America then sieved through litres of muddy gravel with microscopes and pairs of tweezers to see what treasures had been captured.
It uses metal spaghetti tongs in place of the tweezers in the original and players can try to use them to remove the mannequin's brain, heart, gut or femur.
"I'm just taking my tweezers, and then kind of drawing it up, " explains post-doc Atsuko Negishi, as she pulls on what looks like the skin on a cup of hot cocoa.
There were wigs, electronic tweezers and rental roller skates.
If it were possible to move the components around using optical tweezers, and put them directly on to a base, that would open up a completely different approach to the problem and might, ultimately, result in a new manufacturing technology.
To test the theory, researchers gave 132 participants one of three tasks: using tweezers to remove small pieces from slots in the Japanese equivalent of the board game Operation, counting the appearances of a digit in a block of numbers, and a reaction time test.
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The label in question was one he disliked so much that he preferred to put it between quotation marks (as if handling it with a pair of tweezers) and to insert a hyphen (as if to deny it the dignity of being a real word).
Three strands of DNA were synthesized so that when they were put into a test tube, they immediately became a molecular motor--a pair of DNA tweezers, held together at one end by a third piece of DNA that could be made to open and shut by adding or subtracting a fourth DNA strand.
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