In addition to tracking location, they track speed, distance, heart rate and calories burned.
Looking into a viewfinder is awkward for high-end cameras, but looking through Glass would be much easier, he said. (Glass can already snap photos itself.) He also wants a Glass integration with bicycles to track things like riding time, distance and heart rate.
Another is that the IRS is using this year's income tax filings to refund billions in long-distance phone taxes, which it belatedly conceded it had wrongly imposed on cellphone bills and certain flat-rate long-distance charges.
When combined with Sportiiiis, you get all the information you need including elapsed time, distance, and heart rate.
Many athletes use Strava to rank their own performances over time, measuring not only speed and distance but also heart rate, power output and other information.
Wahoo Fitness' iPhone cycling system allows users to monitor all the vitals including power, speed, cadence, heart rate, pace, distance, location, course and more.
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RadioAstron will also examine pulsars and the outer regions of spiral galaxies in order to get more precise measurements on their rate of rotation and distance from earth.
As a result, calls are charged at a much cheaper rate: long-distance and international calls can be made for the price of a local call and a home broadband-internet connection.
Mobilcom, which charges a flat rate of DM0.19 a minute for long-distance calls in Germany (a third of Deutsche Telekom's peak rate), is so popular that most customers trying to reach its network find only a busy signal.
Any calls outside that area are considered long distance, at a higher per-minute rate.
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That seems to exempt long-distance service that is charged at a flat rate per minute, as most is these days.
Beginning in the 2013 season, all 19 MLS clubs will use the data-tracking technology from adidas, providing coaches, trainers and players with real-time performance metrics including heart rate, speed, acceleration, distance, field position and, for the first time, power.
Distance markers on the guardrail flew by at the rate of more than a football field per second.
The revamp uses a simple web interface to let us build free sports apps based on criteria as simple as distance and speed through to more specific measurements like heart rate and pressure.
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The frame rate is 15 fps and the "ground sample distance" is 15 centimeters -- each pixel represents about six inches.
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But depending on your transaction rate, off-site replication may be limited by the available bandwidth, and even by distance.
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