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It's almost the holiday season. (I mean, it's not, but it's close enough. You know those people who put up their Christmas lights before Halloween? We're those people.) That means it's almost time for egg nog, wool sweaters, "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire" playing incessantly in malls, actual chestnuts roasting on actual open fires, lights, menorahs, and just non-stop reasons to buy things.

It also means it's time for The Verge's annual holiday gift guide. It's where we try to solve all your wish list woes all at once, to make it easy for you to find the perfect thing for all the people you love. Or just for your Secret Santa at work.

This year, we want you to help us make the perfect gift guide for Verge readers. So tell us what you want! Use the form below to tell us what you're buying, what you're asking for, what you're demanding and incessantly begging family members for. We want any and all recommendations, but especially those things slightly off the beaten path. Think more "this awesome coffee maker I found by accident and love," less "a MacBook Air." Submit as much as you'd like, and if we use your submission, we'll credit you in the guide. We'll also love you forever — and so will everyone who gets awesome gifts this holiday season.

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Physicists create tractor beam made of water

Dr Punzmann and Professor Shats testing the tractor beam. ANU/Stuart Hay

A surprising new technique created by a team of physicists led by Professor Michael Shats at the Australian National University reveals that simple wave generators can be used to move floating objects in a number of directions -- even against the waves.

"We have figured out a way of creating waves that can force a floating object to move against the direction of the wave," said Dr Horst Punzmann from the Research School of Physics and Engineering. "No one could have guessed this result."

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The technique allows the researchers to finely control objects floating in the water. Using ping pong balls, the team figured out the size and frequency of the waves required to move the object in the desired direction.

It is not, though, the waves themselves that are responsible for the movement. Rather, according to advanced particle tracking tools developed by team members Dr Nicolas Francois and Dr Hua Xia, the waves generate currents on the water's surface, which in turn move the balls.

"We found that above a certain height, these complex three-dimensional waves generate flow patterns on the surface of the water," said Professor Shats. "The tractor beam is just one of the patterns, they can be inward flows, outward flows, or vortices."

Anyone can replicate these experiments in a bathtub, but no mathematical theory yet exists that can explain them, Dr Punzmann said.

The full research can be found online in the journal Nature Physics.

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