It fired a sonic pulse at the ground and used the speed of the returning echo to calculate our height.
Unfortunately there's no "tablet mode" like on the Echo to be found here, meaning that apps need to be modified to run in full-screen.
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Today, they echo to the tramp of modern invading hordes, three million tourists a year, armed with cameras and guidebooks rather than pikes and broad swords.
And the words continue to echo down to the present day, spoken to us today by children who were not even alive then.
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More and more music companies are using Echo Nest to provide this data, he says.
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So, I thought to echo that, the only way to present this is in Jim's own words.
It "aimed to echo the message of peace and friendship to the neighboring states and guarantee security of the seafaring and shipping lines vis-a-vis sea piracy, " the news agency said.
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So while in the minds of many of these women, Mitt Romney is largely undefined, what they apparently do know and feel about him seems to echo those Bain ads -- and look to represent a beginning sketch of someone they cannot trust.
Other options are very handy, like the option to have the Echo take you directly to Recorded TV when it is turned on -- rather than the main menu, which is the default in Media Center.
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Calls to strip Sir James of his knighthood echo what happened to Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, who lost his knighthood in 2012 after being held responsible for the biggest annual loss in UK corporate history.
And unless we can prove that America can be one out of all these many cultures, to echo what Governor Rossello said, we're not going to have the America we want.
The only way to avoid this kind of echo chamber effect is to make a habit of consuming media from a wide variety of ideological perspectives.
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Now that we have entered an era, when each of us has the capacity to be a media company, the lack of fact checking and the amplification of echo chambers seems to be accelerating.
His answer was to have the walls in the galleries painted in shades of gray, ranging from very pale in the 20th century displays to echo the hues of steel and aluminum associated with that era's technological advances -- to deep and dark hues in the medieval galleries.
And so I just -- I want to echo I guess some of what my colleague, Michael Bennet from Colorado, mentioned, but also to ask you, in terms of where we are going, what can we tell the people in terms of predictability and certainty in getting this economy back on track?
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Some European leaders have been uneasy at Blair's readiness to echo U.S. President George W. Bush's use of the word "war" to describe the current situation.
They got bored with the Cure, so Gerry changed it to Echo and the Bunnymen.
But I just want to echo what I said at the beginning of this session.
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Epworth said the "dark and moody" song was intended to echo the narrative of the film.
Talking heads are tripping over each other to echo negative sentiment about Tim Cook.
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Mr Obama deliberately made the speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, to echo Teddy Roosevelt's call for a "New Nationalism" in 1910.
He thought he could come up with something to echo that legacy.
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The first part of the exhibition follows a winding route intended to echo the wandering and often difficult existence of the Romani people.
From initial shock and anger, the Venezuelan press is beginning to echo a more reflective mood developing in the country following last week's landslides.
They were expected to echo the formula presented by Bill Clinton in 2000 and more or less reiterated by George Bush a few years after.
His comments appeared to echo the stance of the Conservatives, who argued on Saturday that the new constitution would give Europe the characteristics of a state.
Gerry Adams didn't respond to that last taunt, which seemed to deliberately echo Martin McGuinness's description of the dissidents as "traitors to the people of Ireland".
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