In both cases the trouble led to new security features on bottles, such as laser etching and holograms.
Canon may be most familiar as a camera company, but 50% of its third quarter revenue came from office products such as laser printers and multi-function devices.
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The projects on Brit.co are fairly simple and meant to be completed quickly, but many incorporate cool gadgetry such as 3D and laser printers, or wired elements such as Arduino kits, which are do-it-yourself computing and circuitry kits.
Additive manufacturing can also be achieved by a number of other methods, such as selective laser sintering (SLS).
This is handy for a small office which needs to share a specialist printer, such as a laser printer or a high-end color inkjet.
Some of the tools, such as a laser-firing instrument for checking rocks' elemental composition from a distance, are the first of their kind on Mars.
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Newer developments in laser technology, such as nonablative fractional resurfacing, in which the laser divides the light up into many smaller pulses, have decreased the healing time.
That meant using apps such as BuyVia, Red Laser, Amazon Price Check, Decide, and ShopSavvy among others.
Therefore, if you are already enrolled in a healthcare FSA, try to schedule costly procedures such as Lasik, or laser eye surgery, for 2012.
Building on Volvo Car Corporation's and Volvo Technology's already existing safety systems - including features such as cameras, radar and laser sensors - the vehicles monitor the lead vehicle and also other vehicles in their immediate vicinity.
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But while the proposed new legislation would cover phone tapping and mail interceptions, it conspicuously fails to deal with other, no less intrusive, forms of electronic surveillance such as long-distance microphones, laser devices and the placing of bugs.
Still, MSAs can be attractive, particularly if you run up big bills for items that aren't covered by regular insurance, such as alternative medical treatments, orthodontia or laser eye surgery.
Get to know the map, decide what your must-see attractions are and find out about special events such as shows, character parades, fireworks and laser displays.
To create a hologram, such as those typically seen on credit cards, a laser beam is split into two (an object beam and a reference beam).
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With mobeam's technology, the Galaxy S4 can "beam" traditional 1D barcode data to any laser scanner with no new equipment, such as optical scanners or backend systems, required by the retailer.
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St Andrews University physicists have made a laser which can trace vapours emitted by explosives such as TNT.
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.
Hackborn led the charge into laser printers, where HP had no experience and was competing with Japanese consumer companies such as Canon.
Lucent's 30, 000 techies work on such advances as plastic fiber flexible enough to wire your home, a new over-the-air laser system for local optical transmission and routers with mind-boggling capacity.
The suggestions that the United States has no need for a kinetic-kill ASAT capability for "the next decade or two" and that there are alternatives that already exist for negating or disrupting enemy space activities, such as destroying ground stations or jamming links, would also appear to rule out the use of the Airborne Laser program for anti-satellite purposes.
Some firms that sell lasers for resurfacing, such as Israel's Lumenis and America's Candela, have now entered the photorejuvenation business using newer laser technologies to remove wrinkles by stimulating the skin to produce collagen.
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