What's needed now is the software to tie everything together: sensors, wireless radio networks and GPS navigation systems.
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The D5200 is also compatible with a new wireless radio frequency remote accessory, the WR-R10 and WR-T10 Wireless Remote Controllers.
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Bluetooth is a low-cost wireless radio transmission specification for creating personal networks of up to eight devices at a distance of 10 to 100 feet.
The motion of the chest and abdomen during breathing impedes the wireless radio signals crisscrossing a bedridden patient, who in the study was Patwari himself.
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At the TED conference this week, Jawbone CEO and cofounder Hosain Rahman unveiled a new product called UP, a handsome-looking flexible bracelet packed with vibration and motion sensors and wireless radio chips.
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The lid's paint is torn back in order to expose the edges that enable wireless radio transmissions to be sent and received, while the bottom has been left in its rawest form.
First, the weak link in any wireless or radio system is the antenna, its effectiveness and its location.
His achievements triggered the invention of the wireless telegraph and radio.
Another goal: to make Songdo the largest so-called ubiquitous city, where wireless networks and radio-frequency identification will link all information systems--every laptop, stoplight, cell phone, TV and toaster.
The company has introduced its own debit-card system in some stores and is investigating wireless systems where radio tags placed on products are automatically read when a customer is ready to leave a store.
CSR, originally known as Cambridge Silicon Radio, makes wireless connectivity components, including chips for Bluetooth and other radio technologies.
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Future versions will also allow wireless data transmission over radio frequencies, as well as over home electrical wiring.
It leases and manages antenna space on its multi-tenant communications tower sites to wireless service providers and radio and TV broadcast companies.
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For long-term investors still waiting for the company to sell more subscriptions to wireless phones and satellite radio, it's probably a different story.
Krulwich counted at least five Microsoft patents related to determining phone location using wireless access points, radio beacons, device movements and other radio signals.
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Both have multi-zone functionality, are stacked with wireless features including internet radio, AirPlay and DLNA connectivity, and can be controlled using iOS and Android apps.
Like Jobs, MacDonald was a master of many eras: His company introduced the first portable radio, the wireless remote control and became synonymous with consumer electronics innovation.
His Radio 4 show, Wireless Nights, sees him take listeners "on a nocturnal journey around stories of night people".
This new wireless remote system operates from a radio signal rather than infrared light, dramatically increasing functionality and range.
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The original FCC was created almost expressly for that purpose--to prevent new wireless signals from interfering with existing radio broadcasters.
The new offering includes earphones, headphones, wireless speakers, and a smart radio.
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As wireless devices continue to proliferate, radio spectrum becomes more valuable.
The government plans to expand a fully-featured system to provide alerts via television, radio, and "wireless communications" by March 2007, but until then, we suspect the ole "ear to the ground" method is the best you've got.
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If Congress truly wants to help, it should simply declare that by a date certain the traditional barriers between TV, radio, telephony, cable, wireless and satellite will be eliminated.
With more than 700 patents to his name, Tesla invented radio, the coil transformer, wireless communication, fluorescent lights and the alternating-current motor, which allowed electricity to flow over long distances.
The NPR post notes that the technology discussed in the patent, called spread-spectrum radio, is the basis for a wide variety of modern radio technologies, including the Bluetooth wireless standard used for things like wireless keyboards and earphones.
The medical community is all smiles today, because the FCC has decided to allocate a chunk of radio spectrum for potentially life-altering wireless devices.
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From broadband Internet to latest-generation wireless technologies, from aeronautical and maritime navigation to radio astronomy and satellite-based meteorology, from convergence in fixed-mobile phone, Internet access, data, voice and TV broadcasting to next-generation networks, ITU is committed to connecting the world.
He said Dell's customers are telling the company they prefer the idea of mobile Internet access via wireless notebook computers, using technology such as the Bluetooth and 802.11 standards as well as emerging wireless telecommunications technology such as GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), wideband CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) and UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System).
To goose a similar boom in wireless, the FCC has loosened regulations relating to the radio spectrum, a limited resource.
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