There were brain wave readers, cloud chambers, and location tracking.
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Google and Apple responded by saying that users can turn location tracking on their phones off, and that location sent back to their companies for the purposes of creating large crowd-sourced databases is anonymized.
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The NHL has also put a greater emphasis on tracking shot location and other situations happening on the ice.
Oh, and obviously the location tracking fiasco didn't help, either.
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The latest technology builds on the company's tracking and location systems experience in a variety of market sectors ranging from defence and security to consumer, industrial, and oil and gas.
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Sony's taken a stab at it before -- but this time around, it's imagining a controller with ultrasonic location analysis and Wiimote-like IR tracking.
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It also has GPS for tracking your location, and fully supports over-the-air synchronization of email, contacts and calendars -- through Microsoft Exchange in corporations or via a similar new consumer service from Apple called MobileMe.
They began to search actively for the signal, eventually achieving perfect scores in tracking and identifying the correct location of the invisible light source.
Included in this latest software release is the new Radar app which utilizes the built-in precision GPS sensors onboard the HUD to provide information on current location, 3D interactive resort maps, and buddy tracking.
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Sensor technologies can be combined with mobile devices to deliver ongoing monitoring and tracking, as well as GPS location and emergency communications.
An infrared camera in each lens then picks up those signals and uses them to coordinate the location of your pupils, tracking what you're looking at.
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SportVU uses the concept behind missile-tracking technology to log the exact location of every player and the ball 25 times per second on X, Y and Z coordinates, leading to millions of data points for NBA teams' resident quants to study.
In addition to tracking location, they track speed, distance, heart rate and calories burned.
Expeditors' tracking software tied Ellis to his suppliers so he could view the location and projected arrival times for merchandise.
Nope, instead your phone has been tracking information about its location in relation to wi-fi hot spots and cellular towers so it can figure out where it is.
But Apple avoids acknowledging that the by-product of tracking all the towers and hotspots around an iPhone user is that his or her approximate location is tracked, too.
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