1.   But Pacific Century plans to beam data to cable operators, who would store it in computers attached to the cable network.

2.   The data is beamed to the watches over a wireless network being created by Seiko Communications, a joint venture of Seiko Corp. and Seiko Epson Corp.

3.   The data is beamed to ground stations in Alaska, Virginia and Japan and distributed to weather services in the United States, Japan and Europe every three hours.

4.   They use a video camera to take pictures and a small dish antenna beams the data via satellite to an earth station linked to their home office.

5.   Other sensors can be linked to satellites which then beam data to reception centres on the ground.