He recently teamed with troubled Sirius XM Radio and Garmin, maker of global-positioning displays, to beam weather data to automobiles a potentially large but still nascent market.
His track record, of course, has been mixed: In 2002, for instance, Gates premiered the Mira, the portable touch screen, which never launched, and SPOT, an ambitious plan to beam weather and stock quotes to wristwatches.
The floors and beams are weathered wood salvaged from old barns and factories, and the rugs and furniture and tableware might have been salvaged from the 18th-century bed and breakfast of your dreams.
— In a glassed-off area in the headquarters of Sara Lee, a handful of specialists study computer screens and flat-screen televisions beaming the latest weather reports and commodity prices.
Every exposed brick, worn floorboard, and weathered beam in these spaces shines with personality.
The same thing happened to local radio, too: the big companies brought out the independents and now we're all listening to local weather beamed out of a central control tower that's got absolutely no knowledge of the nuances of regional dialect.
Like a flashlight beam, waves from a weather radar expand as they get farther from the source and they do not follow the curvature of the earth.
Indeed, for the last few years, and often several times a day during the dead of winter, the weather network beamed into 87 million American households and across the world has trumpeted Embarrass as the site of that day's low temperature, leaving the city known regionally as the Falls out in the cold.
As well as projecting video and photo content, the projector can be used for presentations, decorative projections to create a mood, or for augmenting the phone's alarm clock — by, for example, beaming the day's weather forecast and your schedule onto the ceiling so it's the first thing you see when you wake up.
In fact, this toasty bolthole (weathered beams, chunky no-nonsense furnishings, rusting tin-plate adverts for Gold Flake tobacco) is one of York's best beer houses.
Among the limitations, according to the research service, is that lasers are not effective in bad weather because the beam can be disturbed or scattered by water vapor, as well as by smoke, sand and dust.
