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...used to be that your telephone received signals through a copper line and your television from an antenna. Then came cell phones and cable TV, and that which was wired became wireless, and vice versa. Now the wireless revolution is coming to the Internet, enabling road warriors and home users alike to roam the Web with no strings--or cables--attached. Wi-fi is not perfect--setup is clunky and the range limited--yet it's fast becoming not just a nifty new technology but a way of life. Find...
...teach doctors that their job is to find disease and weed out those who are physically well. They have no time for hypochondriacs." It needn't take as much time as they think, though. "It's not hard to identify a hypochondriac," says Fallon, "if you have the right antenna out." And once a hypochondriac is identified and properly treated, no one is happier than his or her doctor...
...RFID reader emits a radio wave to scan the chip via an attached antenna. Unlike bar codes, which have to be scanned one at a time, an RFID reader can theoretically scan every item in a shopping basket, case or pallet--at one glance, at a distance, even in rotten conditions like inside a freezer or in a sandstorm. Place an RFID reader in a series of gateways, and it can follow supplies from assembly line to store shelves and right out the door with the customer...
...officer was dispatched to Morris Hall to a take a report of a stolen television antenna...
Unlike little Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity are full-blown Mars cars, about the size of golf carts and fairly stuffed with instruments--including a bristle of cameras atop an almost 5-ft. antenna mast that will provide an eye-level view of the terrain, as opposed to the shin-level view Pathfinder provided. Like their predecessor, they will be visiting areas of the planet that scientists believe were once deluged with water, precisely the kind of spots extraterrestrial organisms would, at least in theory, love. If Mars ever harbored life, the 90 or more days Spirit and Opportunity will spend...