If you are using anything other than the continuum of your lifetime, you are probably employing the wrong measuring device.

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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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As a material highly sensitive to the environment, graphene could act as a sensor with a single device measuring strain, gas, magnetism or pressure.

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Broad Group has developed a miniature device for measuring air pollution that can fit into mobile phones.

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The favoured way of measuring h in terms of mass employs a device called a watt balance.

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Unlike most wide format printers, the device itself is reasonably petite, measuring only 8.9 inches deep x 11.4 inches wide x 7.3 inches tall.

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By measuring the amount of static acceleration due to gravity, the chip knows the angle a device is being tilted at with respect to the earth.

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