It also takes broadcast signals using mini antennas and transmits them to paying customers.
The company captures signals using thousands of tiny antennas, which it argues is comparable to individuals buying digital antennas for themselves.
The receiver then reassembles the signals using complex mathematical algorithms to sort out the jumbled radio waves so that they can be read easily.
Nerve cells transmit their signals using electrically charged atoms (called ions) of sodium and potassium, which work rather like electrons in a metal wire.
Yet that, in effect, is exactly what satellite broadcaster DirecTV is doing by threatening to directly sue individuals who pirate its television signals using counterfeit smart cards.
The information, which can include traffic information, weather, stock quotes, news, sports and dozens of other snippets, would be transmitted to the watches not by any fancy third-generation wireless phone technology, nor via satellite, but rather by FM radio signals using a technology called DirectBand.
Alon Ironi runs Siano Mobile Silicon, an Israeli firm that makes the specialty TV receiver chips that receive signals encoded using the unique Chinese standards.
The slower signals are sent using a different antenna using the same frequency channel.
That conundrum was solved by getting the high-frequency signals to penetrate deeper using alternating waves of electric and magnetic fields.
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The lab has also developed a wheelchair that a person can drive by using brain signals, rather than moving a joystick or pressing buttons.
All diagnostics are done remotely, using radio signals.
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Silicon photonics is a new approach to using light (photons) to move huge amounts of data at very high speeds with extremely low power over a thin optical fiber rather than using electrical signals over a copper cable.
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Radar provider Thales has been given funding to look into using existing TV signals to locate and track aircraft.
Drivers were entering and exiting this diabolical wheel from all directions, switching lanes and cutting each other off, without using their turn signals or altering their speed.
Its approach involves detecting a phone user's location in a building using Wi-Fi signals that already exist inside the building.
The hand itself has several degrees of motion, and is controlled using the same nerve signals that are used to control a biological hand.
Qualcomm was ruled by "radio guys" like his dad, engineers steeped in the arcana of making airborne signals travel as far as possible using as little power as possible.
However, using sensors to track subtle signals would likely cause some privacy concerns which reduces their practical use.
As soon as the brain gets confusing signals from the two ears it stops using stereo separation as a way of distinguishing sound in space.
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In that market ATM lost out to the rival technology known as Ethernet, but Floyd salvaged Efficient by using ATM to carry DSL signals to a telephone company's central office.
Now added to this is a GLA station in Dover that broadcasts corrections to eLoran that makes signals so precise ships can enter harbours using them in the event of GPS failure.
It is surprising though that in all the months since John Locker started warning people that the signals could be pulled down by anyone using amateur equipment, the US military have not introduced encoding even of the type used by commercial broadcasters.
The implication of this is that you could scan a person using some advanced form of the technology used to perform MRI scans, and transmit that scanned information somewhere else -- using normal electrical or sound signals -- where it would then be reassembled into an approximation of the original.
For one thing, it signals that these companies are finding ways of using these new technologies to make their medicines more effective --making for better odds in getting Food and Drug Administration approval and reducing money wasted testing drugs that won't work in human beings.
Aura is a fabless semiconductor manufacturer backed in part by Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ), which specializes in using magnetic technology as opposed to radio signals for near-field communications.
One way this can be successfully accomplished is by "multiplexing" the electrodes normally used to relay touch input -- that is, using the same electrodes to handle the signals for both touch control and the pixels of the LCD, according to a 2010 IHS report on touch-screen displays.
These signals have been detected in the lab for decades, using relatively large sensors and some sticky gel.
With a license from TRWfor the gallium arsenide formula, RFMicro Devices is using it in chips that amplify cellular phone signals and extend talk times at least 30%.
He has been experimenting with the idea of collecting signals straight from the brain's motor cortex and using them to direct mechanical devices such as artificial arms and even wheelchairs.
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