One of Falcon Heene's brothers told his parents that Falcon was in the balloon when it broke its tether.
Power is generated by the wing flying in a circular path, with electricity transmitted to the ground via the conducting core of the tether.
The same company is also developing something called a rotating-momentum-transfer tether.
The Eight Immortals, for example, are almost crude compared with some of the musicians or with a scene from daily life showing a muscular horse pulling on its tether.
Dr Hinterdorfer and his team tested this idea by applying a coating of an antigen (an enzyme called lysozyme) to a mica sheet, and suspending an appropriate antibody from the tip of an atomic-force microscope with a flexible polymer tether.
Opened earlier this summer, and modelled on Japan's little local police stations, Columbia's koban is an attempt to prevent crime by tackling some of the things that cause it: broken families, children who stop going to school, the failure of communities to help people at the end of their tether.
In case you haven't been following the virtual rock and roll scene lately, videogame publisher Red Octane recently revealed that there would be no wireless ax for the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II -- even though owners of a "last-gen" console, PlayStation 2, will be able to jam out sans tether.
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All 2013 Blu-ray Disc Players include built-in Wi-Fi with the exception of the BD79 which is wireless-ready, enabling users to access additional content and services through the internet without the need to tether your device.
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Predrag Bulatovic, the pro-Yugoslav party leader, may find it hard to tether his armed hotheads.
To wit: thinkers need doers to get things done, and idealists need number crunchers to tether them to reality.
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He, too, however, has a long to-do list before the motor embarks on a maiden voyage: His current motor has a tether attached for power.
To transport the one-ton rover and position it near the mound, engineers devised a complicated system that includes a 52-foot (16-metre) diameter supersonic parachute, a rocket-powered aerial platform and a so-called "sky crane" designed to lower the rover on a tether to the ground.
Besides Bluetooth, we're told that the Galaxy Tab will also feature WiFi and 3G data, a standard SIM slot, and can tether over USB or WiFi.
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Verizon Wireless asserted that third-party tethering applications could enable its customers to tether without paying an additional fee.
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That's when Inspector Gadget goes into action, traveling back and forth across the triple-braided tether at a snail-like .006 mph, all the while using its built-in camera to search for damage caused by radiation, micrometeoroids, and other nasty space stuff.
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Freedom will mean different things to different Republicans, but it can tether a diverse coalition to inalienable principles.
Woodman conceived the idea in 2001 simply as a wrist strap that could tether already-existing cameras to surfers.
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The Makani kite is a black wing with four propellers and a tether that doubles as a power cord.
The solution, however, is not to tether your games to an internet connection.
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The control unit ends up in a lower orbit, but it can then use solar power and the electrodynamic properties of the tether to return to its original orbit.
As long as your carrier officially supports tethering, all you need is the Nexaira BC2 and international power adapter (sold separately) and you are ready to tether your iPhone and create a hotspot. 3Gstore.com ships to over 200 countries worldwide via FedEx.
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Under French consumer law, for instance, manufacturers are not allowed to tether phones to particular carriers beyond six months.
NASA, will test the idea next year, by deploying a 15km tether from the upper stage of a rocket.
In addition, the company recently revised its service offerings such that consumers on usage-based pricing plans may tether, using any application, without paying an additional fee.
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Connected by a tether, submerged 20 feet, are spring-loaded flippers.
"Some people tether themselves to the computer and become isolated, " she says.
These docs also affirm what we'd heard about integrated Beats Audio technology and Tap to Share, with the second-gen Touchstone to also handle wireless picture sharing, cordless audio streaming and tether-free video beaming (just to name a few).
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Eventually the company is hoping to use its research to create orbiting systems that can fling other satellites into deep space, but seeing how the last Dnepr rocket crashed and burned on liftoff in 2006, Team Tether is probably best off taking this endeavor one step at a time.
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