In the upper right hand corner, you can read the name "Ambient". Ambient is a company that's using excess paging transmitter capacity to broadcast (at least) weather info to devices like this. We have one at my company's front desk...it gives the temp at several nearby airports and a 3-5 day forecast, updated hourly. Looks like they're now doing sports scores, too. They can localize the data because the paging transmitters cover about a 60 mile radius.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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In the upper right hand corner, you can read the name "Ambient". Ambient is a company that's using excess paging transmitter capacity to broadcast (at least) weather info to devices like this. We have one at my company's front desk...it gives the temp at several nearby airports and a 3-5 day forecast, updated hourly. Looks like they're now doing sports scores, too. They can localize the data because the paging transmitters cover about a 60 mile radius.