It is a contactless radio technology that can transmit data between two devices within a few centimeters of each other.
MicroChips' titanium-encased device is about the size of a pager and has a novel flat antenna on one side that can transmit and receive radio signals from several feet outside the body.
The insole does this by communicating with a "base station, " an intermediary device between the button in the shoe and the television set, which uses a radio signal to calculate and transmit the information.
ADS-B promises to make air traffic control easier, cheaper and in many ways safer by allowing planes to transmit their locations by radio frequency instead of depending on towers to use radar to track and coordinate them.
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They could be used to make cheap radio-frequency identity tags in essence, printable bar-codes that transmit an identifying code in response to a pulsed radio signal.
On February 28th and March 1st, American missiles blew up radio relay stations near Mosul in the north that transmit operational data for Iraq's main oil pipeline.
The deal would resolve the issue of stronger-than-permitted radio receivers and repeaters, which take satellite signals and transmit them to radios in many urban areas.
Alcatel, however, will use a small radio transmitter concealed in the battery cover of the phone to transmit a coded low-power signal to the belt clip to tell it when to vibrate, a company spokesperson said after the press conference.
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Each of the 20 transceivers or "nodes" can transmit and receive to the other 19, meaning there can be up to 380 measurements (20 times 19) of radio signal strength within a short period of time (the transceivers transmit one after the other).
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The concerns stem from the emissions of radio frequency (RF) radiation by both the handsets and the base stations that transmit and receive the signals.
In addition to a multi-million dollar advertising blitz spanning television, print, radio and online, a stellar array of allies has joined forces with Paramount Home Entertainment to transmit the AUTOBOTS' message to all inhabitants of the globe.
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