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Mr Sloan tethers his story to a weird reality, striking a comical balance between eccentric and normal.
Two tables can be removed to make room for musicians or dancers, who perform in tethers similar to parachute harnesses.
"With no tethers, you can take advantage of all three dimensions, " says Bill Spencer, a founder of Hawaii Oceanic Technologies.
They're incredibly solid-feeling, so while trade show tethers prevented us from doing any durability testing, they definitely look the part.
Work can be performed from anywhere, freeing workers from the tethers of a commute or finding day care for their children.
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Receivers keep growing more channels, but few people have developed an affinity for running more speakers and their tethers 'round the living room.
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Pebble has already demonstrated consumer interest in a watch that tethers to a smartphone, and Google Glass has staked claim to the leading edge on wearables.
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In 2006, the company successfully placed a platform 1.5 km in the air, and were able to send robots up and down from the platform on tethers.
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The devoted start arriving at their spots early in the morning, hoping to catch a front row glimpse of Spidey and Spongebob as they float by on their Gulliver tethers.
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The IS9181 un-tethers music lovers from their computers to enjoy digital music in the living room, bedroom or anywhere in the home, and takes Internet radio to a new level beyond the PC listening experience.
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It depends on hypersonic gliding maneuvers, the largest supersonic parachute ever deployed, eight hydrazine rocket engines firing in sequence and an elaborate system of tethers called a "sky crane" that are meant to lower the landing craft gently to the ground.
Too big to rely on air bags to cushion its fall as with previous Mars landers, Curiosity landed through an automated system of high-speed maneuvers, a supersonic parachute, eight retro-rockets and a set of "sky-crane" tethers that lowered the vehicle gently the last few feet to the ground.
The mission -- called MAST (for Multi-Application Survivable Tether) -- is scheduled to begin April 17th with a payload launch on a Dnepr rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, after which the Washington state-based Tethers Unlimited's two anchor sats (less-cleverly dubbed Ted and Ralph -- um, hello, Penny and Brain...) will gradually separate until they've pulled the kilometer-long line taut.
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