Another technique IRCAM is developing uses scores of small speakers lined up around the concert hall to create something called wave field synthesis, or WFS. It was designed to address a problem that's been brought to IRCAM over and over again: dead spots in concert halls.
Displaying virtual contempt for the rest of the field he turned to wave his team mates on after each of the last remaining hurdles and Kipruto and Koech duly obliged, leaving Amer to settle for fourth place.
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After scoring, Wambach and her teammates collected hands, and, in a pre-choreographed routine, did a long, break-dance style wave motion that gestured down to the far end of field, where goalie Hope Solo and defender Christie Rampone dropped to the ground and performed an undulating maneuver known to anyone who has ever consumed more than three drinks at a wedding: The Worm.
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The second field slanted up to the highway, and the wind moved uphill across it, wave after wave.
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Imagine the scene: wave after wave of Dakota aircraft swooping through a canyon to land at an improvised airstrip, fashioned from a stony field only days earlier by local women, children and old folk.
Hyuck Choo seems to think that it can be put to use in short order in the medical field, but it remains to be seen if we'll see this in the next wave of Google Fiber rollouts.
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