The flexibility and relative affordability of phones allows for easy distribution and use, providing distance learning across geographical barriers.
Ambisonics tried to capture some of the audible cues that people use to determine distance and direction by using a multi-directional, multi-channel microphone located at one point.
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While any practical use is still some distance away, it's easy to see future tablets and tables that are designed from the start to encourage a little socializing.
Because RR Lyrae stars have the same average brightness, astronomers use them as standard candle distance indicators.
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Some of those users keep the Internet telephone as a backup, or use it just for long distance.
When in use, headphones are a safe distance from the implanted device.
This may affect behaviour because as cars go faster they use more fuel to travel the same distance 25% more at 70mph than at 50mph, according to the Department for Transport.
The couples agreed it should be a "green living compound, " Mr. Allen says, within walking distance of town and with minimal use of energy and resources.
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Their plan is to use WCIT to resurrect the old international long distance model, enabling them to extract revenue from high-volume websites and other Internet services.
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Simply use an iPhone or iPad to display the estimated distance to the pen, which is displayed intuitively in a radar-style view.
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Our objective is to use technology to take advantage of the fact that distance between learners sometimes provides opportunities for learning that would never work as well in a traditional classroom.
Runners in shorter-distance events have traditionally been allowed to use their own bags to stash their clothes and other post-race items, which are stored in a designated area staffed by volunteers.
The prudent use of coastal development setbacks or establishing a safe distance between buildings and the active beach zone can ensure that space is provided for a beach to move naturally, both during normal events and infrequent hurricanes, thereby ensuring the beach is conserved for all to enjoy and that coastal infrastructure remains intact.
Comparing 28, 000 venture-backed companies who raised funds between 1980 and 2006, Tian studied whether venture firms could use technology to monitor investments just as well from a distance.
Users can also use the speakerphone function or a wired earpiece to gain some distance.
More long-distance commuters and everyday drivers will be able to use them.
Theses might include the use of barbed wire and barriers to stop cars at some distance from checkpoints and the soldiers manning them.
Welsh Secretary David Jones has defended his use of a chauffeur-driven car to drive the short distance between his office and Downing Street.
Kohli was troubled by cramps and had to use a runner after passing 50, but managed to get within touching distance of a century before being caught out.
Expanding from this initial use of the U.S. Postal Service for course correspondence, distance education moved towards live radio shows in 1921 and then televised broadcasts in 1963.
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By giving away the Android OS software for free, they were able to definitively distance themselves from any direct claim that they are profiting from its use.
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For example, the chips used to protect your jeans against theft in a supermarket use active RFID - the chip can be detected and tracked from a certain distance.
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Volcanologist Sonia Calvari, of the Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Catania (INGV-CT), said rapid advances in technology enable experts to use a wide range of methods to continually map and monitor Etna from a distance.
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.
In addition, Google Wallet does not even use a wireless network, because the application requires near absolute proximity of about one inch distance between devices.
The idea: Passengers use an app to request a ride, the request goes to all participating cabbies within a certain distance and the driver who responds first gets the fare.
However, that distance depends largely on factors such as vehicle speed, number of passengers, ambient temperature and use of accessories like heating and air conditioning.
Athletes (and regular exercisers) can use the gadget to listen to MP3 files and the radio as well as record fitness metrics like time, distance, speed and calories burned.
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"Obliging so many of their customers to go through the lengthy Ombudman process to have their complaints resolved suggests that our UK banks use the Ombudsman process as a "testing ground" to see if their customers are prepared to go the distance, " he said.
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