The intensity peaks within a solenoid beam are found in a spiral around the line of the beam itself, while a Bessel beam's intensity rises and falls in peaks and troughs at higher distances from the beam's line.
The patent-pending technology uses a laser beam's energy to precisely transfer the ultra-thin chips.
Bill Beam's health had been deteriorating since a fall left him disabled last year.
There is a trade-off, though: the shorter a beam's wavelength, the less deeply it can penetrate.
Instead of the complicated deal with Fortune Brands, Diageo could simply try to buy Jack Daniels, whose sales volumes and selling price are higher than Jim Beam's in America.
It's a very nice show-piece, although the necessity for all your S Beam sharing partners to upgrade to the Galaxy S III does inevitably taint that offering.
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The S III arrives with that feature intact, but Samsung also has added its own NFC sharing system called S Beam, which does the same thing, but only works with Galaxy S III phones.
One touch sharing with S Beam allows friends to share pictures, videos, documents and more by simply touching two Galaxy S III devices' backs together.
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This required widening the antenna's beam to catch the probe in its uncertain orbit.
This lets a built-in microprocessor adjust the brightness and the spread of the Nao's beam accordingly.
After flubbing a handstand in Monday's uneven-bars final, Douglas lost her chance at a third Olympic medal midway through Tuesday's beam event.
This allows a 1GB file to be shared within minutes and a 10MB file within seconds by simply touching another S Beam enabled phone.
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It also sports a range of additional features that boost performance and the overall user experience in entirely new ways, including Smart Stay, S Beam and AllShare Cast.
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The majority of Kentucky's 120 counties are still dry or partially dry, despite the state being home to some of the world's best-known liquor brands, such as Jim Beam and Maker's Mark bourbon.
Working with local net-makers, Devon's beam-trawler fishermen voluntarily trialled their own designs, stitching the net panels together in a different way to allow the mesh to stay open, thereby letting smaller fish escape.
Once a connection is made, there's a steady 15Mbps beam available between the users -- that's more than enough for videochats, media streaming and multiplayer gaming.
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And it's got a laser beam attached to its head - which, let's be honest, is just good product design.
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Clementine's radio beam was bounced off the moon to a receiving dish on earth.
The beam of Xiao's house in Mianzhu City in Sichuan province collapsed during the quake, trapping him, China's state-run television CCTV said.
Walking across the graduation stage 30 years after I'd received my undergraduate degree, I closely watched my ten-year-old daughter's face beam with pride.
Auto Share Shot Pairing using NFC: By setting the camera to 'Auto Share Shot' mode, quickly share photos and videos by simply tapping the Galaxy S III with other NFC and S-Beam enabled devices.
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Jim Beam, Fortune's biggest spirits brand (others include Maker's Mark and Old Crow), would allow Diageo to compete more effectively with Brown-Forman, the owner of Jack Daniels, in the lucrative market for bourbon, an American style of whisky.
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Without the country license, it's illegal to beam a signal to a customer in that country.
Dong has been disqualified from all the events she participated in, which also included the women's individual uneven bars, the women's individual all-around and the women's individual balance beam.
And this was coming from the institution somewhat sardonically called, by Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam, The World's Greatest University, a place that for centuries relied on its reputation for academic excellence, not its life-comforts and other amenities, to attract the best and the brightest.
Since there's no physical interface on the device to configure WiFi, the company's developed Blinkup, a way to enter SSID and password information on any iOS and Android smartphone and beam it to the Electric Imp's light sensor by rapidly pulsing the handset's screen on and off.
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The speaker cuts through the din to beam messages to the captain's ears only.
Having been pipped to the all-around title (which takes into account performances on all four pieces of apparatus) by team-mate Nastia Liukin, Johnson exacted revenge on the balance beam, the final women's gymnastics event of the Beijing Games.
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