beams

Perhaps an orbiting network of solar powered satellites that can each manage large numbers of directed power beams.

This item stood out as particularly pointless (see article for image): Two circulating beams bring first collisions in the LHC.

Yeah, they're all a bit Ship of Theseus - giant wood beams, thick stone walls, but many generations worth of interior upgrades.

Or maybe multiple IR beams like this one in different parts of the store to have traffic metrics on the floor plan.

It looks like they're relying upon the neutral beams to replenish particles that leave.

There's no rhythmic grouping (the beams provide this cue) and I'm sure there are many others that I'm unaware of.

Airbags, collapsing structures, side impact beams, rollover protection all are required now.

Someone once said something about beams in your own eye...

It's not so much the light output but rather the angle of the light - you end up with little star trek beams all over the place.

I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate!

Two beams detecting directionality + WiFi?

One application I can think of would be bouncing RGB colors off of three digitally modulated mirrors (like the Texas Instruments DLP chip), then combining the reflected beams into one.

Shakier are his claims regarding displays embedded into eyewear, "personal beams" of audio, and intelligent virtual assistants.

One of them is the "light gate": beams of light cross the open space between the worker and the machine, and the machine will only activate when the beams are unimpeded.

OP Vistars is "[...]a web-based resource which one can use to receive up-to-the-minute updates on the status of the LHC proton beams.".

There are 2 beams (IR) per one of their "sensors", and it's assumed they're determining direction by noting which beam fires first vs second.

The rendering actually looked like I-Beams curved into some kind of egg-like shape.