There is no way that you could irradiate a crystal of nickel with a single beam of x-rays and get that circular ring pattern if the electron beam were behaving as a particle beam only.
Other uses might be that calls from business colleagues get routed only to the phone in the home office, while calls from your kids' friends will ringonly on the phones in their bedrooms.
So for example, you would be able to get a phone call on one number and have it ringonly on your work number at certain times but your Skype number at other times.