Jerry Levin was head of HBO and had the insight to beam up the signal via satellite so everyone could watch.
From a standing start, the reconstructed beam sped back up to the normal speed of light.
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At the rundown gym where he trains, a slogan inscribed on a beam sums it up: Go for gold.
Example: if you sign up Jim Beam to sponsor a particular section of club seats, as one exec in the crowd spoke about, the door is open to sign up Jack Daniels to sponsor another section.
Packed with speakers, an array of wireless sensors and the ability to send video signals to your TV sans cables, the concept docking station is meant to stylishly hold your KDDI handset (lots of 'em will be compatible in due time) and beam a blown-up version of your phone's UI onto your television or LCD monitor.
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In the rooftop iron scaffolding for the spire, 105 floors up, a beam pays homage to Lillian Frederick, a 46-year-old administrative assistant who died on the 105th floor of the south tower, pierced by a terrorist-hijacked airliner.
The presence of smoke re-aims or reflects the beam so that it is picked up by the receiver.
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The specimen is then rotated on a mechanised platform as it is exposed to the X-ray beam, in order to build up a three-dimensional picture.
With MacPherson struts up front and a beam axle in the rear located with a Watts Z-link to quell excess body movement the suspension is competent enough, but no one will want to autocross the Verano.
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Just walk up to another device and beam your infrared connector and -- bingo -- you're linked and talking.
Things smaller than the wavelength of the beam you are using will not show up, so increasing the frequency (ie, reducing the wavelength) means that finer details can be picked out.
Will there ever come a time when actual people, rather than just the particles of which they are made up, will be able to beam from one place to another?
The original company, now called Beam Inc. and focused on spirits, is up 28%.
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High precision "dual use" items such as milling machines, electron beam welders, and high strength aluminum all turned up missing.
If any of these targets matches the video frame, the corresponding reference beam is emitted by the memory, and picked up by a detector.
Blankets, wall hangings, handbags, table runners, alpaca-wool sweaters and scarves beam as brightly as the equatorial sun, lighting up the largest and finest craft market in South America.
Designing them to light up an entire room or shine a beam over a long distance is far more technically challenging and requires higher production costs.
So Starkweather fired a laser through the air between the two buildings, an improvised communications system that meant that, if you were driving down the Foothill Expressway on a foggy night and happened to look up, you might see a mysterious red beam streaking across the sky.
Orfordness lighthouse is being decommissioned because Southwold lighthouse, further up the Suffolk coast, has been fitted with a stronger beam.
They used a beam of photons to measure the small magnetic field produced by a gas made up of a million ultra-cold rubidium atoms.
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In 1995 Massie moved the signal to a satellite easily picked up by operators like Comcast and Time Warner, which could then beam it to their local systems.
The tractor beam is very selective in the properties of the particles it acts on, so you could pick up specific particles in a mixture.
According to Technology Review, the company's so-called "rural connectivity platform" (or RCP) is able to beam WiFi signals from one antenna to another located more than 60 miles away, and at data rates up to 6.5 megabits per second, no less.
"Ever since I hooked up with The Dinner Garden, I've been doing a lot, lot better, " Beam said.
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