Combined with some very ad hoc staging and help from the BBC's technical teams, the coordination resulted in a surprisingly smooth interview about flooding in northeastern England with relatively few hints of the extra-tiny recording equipment involved.

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On the other hand, those extra dollars do tend to pay for cutting-edge treatments and equipment the rest of the world can only dream of.

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By creating an ad hoc network, the XDJ-AERO can sync with up to four Wi-Fi enabled devices at once, without the need for any extra equipment.

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Once their colleagues in orthopedic surgery saw the plan in action, they bought extra equipment so that they, too, could set aside some operating rooms and set up a surgeon-of-the-week program.

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