Thus, Ford, Audi, and many audio and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) companies will be visible to the general public.
"I don't foresee anything changing, " he says, citing emerging data floods from global positioning systems, radio-frequency identification tags and Homeland Security regulations.
The military kick-started auto innovations like four-wheel drive and global positioning systems.
Yet he reckons it is almost impossible to keep them secret and safe from vandals in an era of digital cameras, global-positioning systems and the internet.
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Dr. Lee is a leader in the field of computer chips for wireless technologies such as mobile phones, short-range wireless devices, and global positioning systems (GPS).
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As an example, he cites the opening up of geographic positioning systems data in the mid 1980s, which now is embedded in a range of commercial applications.
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Our banking, transportation, power grid, Global Positioning Systems (on which our military relies heavily), communications, entertainment, and many more systems rely on internetworking the Internet and many other networks.
Global positioning systems will be another new capability, Strauss says.
The technology world has obligingly created swarms of gadgets and accessories this year that fall into these categories, starting with MP3 players, global positioning systems (GPS) and laptop and cellphone cases.
The parts are tracked by computer, and each of the transports, which are battery powered, have their own positioning systems so they can move around the factory without running into anything.
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"We like to survey the circuits with GPS (Global Positioning Systems) and I think that gives you the ability to very accurately put those parameters into your simulation tools, " he said.
Other watches incorporate ultraviolet radiation sensors and satellite-positioning systems.
Global positioning systems make navigating unfamiliar streets a doddle.
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"You can argue that the Global Positioning Systems (GPS) in use today are a modern form of cosmography as they combine geography and astronomy to give users precise locations, " said the doctor.
And in 2005 EADS Sodern, a French maker of satellites' control and positioning systems and subsidiary of the Franco-German company EADS, said it would start to phase out its American supplier base.
Federally funded university research has contributed critical knowledge that in turn led to the commercialization of the Internet and the development of products such as computerized imaging, global positioning systems, smartphones and tablet computers.
For example, researchers in Arizona are using real-time kinematic global positioning systems, an ultra-precise version of GPS that can measure positions with sub-inch accuracy levels, to control weeds in cotton fields with steel cultivators.
Just one year ago, the Bush administration announced it would keep the ground-based LORAN system operational to serve as a backup for the satellite-based global positioning systems, which are becoming ubiquitous in cars, planes and ships.
Engineers at the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (Grasp) Laboratory at Pennsylvania University have developed ways to make small quadrotor robots fly in formation, co-operate and map their surroundings without global positioning systems (GPS) .
The fact is the marketplace is littered with dozens of novelty watches, all of which tell time well, and which do such things as receive Global Positioning Systems signals, change the channel on TV sets, take pictures and store contact lists like a personal digital assistant.
Considering how governments are suddenly feeling that tracking your every move, or at least providing the means for someone else to, is such a brilliant idea, it's no surprise to see the Bluetooth masters at Cambridge-based CSR buy up NordNav and Cambridge Positioning Systems.
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In a study published in 2006, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University who rode 37 airline flights with a radio-frequency measuring device found emissions from cellphones that could interfere with global-positioning satellite systems.
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So Honda determined to harmonise its production systems the positioning of welding points in body shops, for instance in order to make such a switch faster.
It s the leader in expensive high-end positioning technologies, including GPS, laser and optical systems for the military, aviation, surveying, mapping and construction.
This upgrade adds a global positioning system (GPS) to the missiles guidance systems, allowing for more straightforward planning of the route the self-sufficient weapon follows to its target.
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So Ted Stevens may have saved my life and that was something a great many Alaskans could say as they looked about at the roads and bridges, the hospitals and flood-control systems, the satellite weather and global-positioning relay stations, the sprawling Army and Air Force bases, the rural landing strips and postal air-cargo flights that sustain existence in Alaska as it enters its fiftieth year of statehood.
The winners will be the ones able to rethink their positioning in the value chain of their respective industries and to rapidly enable the eco-systems, tools and infrastructure required to execute their new strategy.
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