Like a spring with a heavier weight at one end, the vibration frequency is lowered, and flies appear to notice.

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This enables the HDVD 800 to transmit the entire frequency spectrum of high-end audio sources without any loss of frequencies.

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And Project SHIELD provides fidelity and dynamic range never before available on a portable device, through its custom, bass reflex, tuned port audio system -- with twice the low-frequency output of high-end laptops.

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The cylindrical speaker features two high-performance drivers, a built-in bass port and digital signal processing software to extend frequency response on the high end while providing tighter low ends for deeper bass response.

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Others are demanding an end to some favorite practices of high-frequency traders, like offering bids for shares that last only a few milliseconds.

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By this point, I was quite frustrated, muttering to myself and talking back to the computer with greater and greater frequency (this perplexed my friends no end).

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The DA-F60 incorporates neodymium magnets and a passive radiator to produce results typically found in high-end Hi-Fi audio systems, including tuned low-frequency reproduction and virtually no distortion even at high volumes.

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As MEMS' average selling price has dropped, it has opened or expanded new end-markets for rapidly emerging MEMS technologies like tri-axis accelerometers and radio-frequency MEMS switches.

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By tuning the laser very precisely to the frequency of one particular sort of bond (such as that with a heavy carbon atom at one end), a molecule containing that bond can be shaken up.

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