Here's where it impresses: Spool will access this content later, even if you're offline.
No-one has made a spool of hagfish thread yet, but scientists are working on it.
What makes it different is Spool, its web interface, to which it connects over WiFi.
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Here, you simply earn the template and then spool it out via your printer.
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Spool also predicts that the Excite 13 will be neither an iPad killer, nor a top-selling Android tablet.
But Spool doesn't agree that the world needs, or wants, a 13-inch tablet.
Spool (free): This app allows users to save articles and videos for later.
"This is the sort of typical maneuver of just adding another feature without improving the actual user experience, " Spool told Wired.
Using Spool, Twine can be set up to send emails, tweets or text messages depending on the inputs from its sensors.
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Like jewels sewn into a coat lining, a self-perpetuating spool of ones and zeros refuses to admit that it is wealth.
I've seen a reel smoke from the friction of the spinning spool.
Besides the vegetables, they held a piece of bread, a pocketknife, sometimes the Alpine Club guidebook, and always a spool of wire for emergency repairs.
The Shells are constructed out of ABS -- the same plastic used to create Lego -- which is fed into the printer from a spool.
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Jared Spool, the CEO of User Interface Engineering, a usability research firm, agrees that Toshiba is thinking about tablet design in a way that its rivals aren't.
The engine note is pleasing, too, with just a touch of turbo spool-up from under the hood and a nicely resonant thrum coming from the dual exhausts.
Mr. Bower pulled a spool of fishing line from his pocket and carefully knotted a copy of his local newspaper, the Centre Daily Times, to the fence.
Spool forward to Monday, and the UK's best known games retailer Game Group has told its investors their shares may be worthless as it struggles to survive.
Peak torque arrives quickly, at 3, 250 rpm, and the squirt from a standing stop to that rpm comes on with great urgency because the newest Bentley uses twin turbochargers that spool up very rapidly.
Unfortunately, the Leica's take-up spool needs a long tapering tongue of film, which users must wedge under a spring clip on the spool's barrel before manually wrapping a few turns of film around it.
Spool forward 23 years and its difficult to imagine computer life without the mouse guiding the majority of computer functions, but that's exactly what's on offer in 2007 -- a landmark year in personal computing.
The secret to the screens is in what's behind them: a thin strip of metal-coated plastic that's only 50 microns thick -- about half the width of a human hair -- and wraps around a spool.
Nowhere in the manual does it explain the weight (thickness) of nylon string to use when reloading the trimmer, nor does it explain how to install the string into the double-threaded spool so that it feeds correctly.
First of all, the helicopter is actually anchored to the ground during installation, so the spool must be engineered properly to avoid any significant tension in the line or the helicopter will be in jeopardy, especially in unstable weather conditions.
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The stored data "is sequential, like a magnetic tape, where you have to spool through stuff to get at the data, " said bioengineer Sriram Kosuri at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, who was the project's lead researcher.
The share price decline came on the same day Facebook announced it had purchased the management of Spool, a San Francisco based start-up that produces smartphone and tablet apps that allow consumers to bookmark web articles and video on their devices.
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Another issue is finding the right tubing that is flexible enough to wind up on a spool but resilient enough to not bend or break, either from internal fluid pressure or by being cut by plants and rocks on the landscape.
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In their bid to simplify loading 35mm film, Kodak, Fuji and other photographic firms squared off the 35mm roll's lead-in tab so a modern SLR's motor-driven loading mechanism could grab the film's sprocket holes and wind it automatically onto the take-up spool.
No culprit has been pinpointed yet, but a link to the same printer spool vulnerability used by Stuxnet has led researchers to suspect that it may be another instance of a targeted cyberwar attack given that Iran, Syria and a handful of other countries in the region are almost exclusively marked as targets.
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