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Sleeve trick.


Tired of rummaging through your pockets just to answer your cell phone? A ski jacket developed by Motorola could help. It lets you command the phone in your pocket--simply by pressing buttons on a control panel built into the jacket's sleeve
Sleeve (O. Eng. slieve, or slyf, a word allied to slip, cf. Dutch sloof) is that part of a garment which covers the arm, or through which the arm passes or slips.
.

The control panel uses Bluetooth to communicate with your phone, This wireless technology relies on radio waves Radio waves
Electromagnetic energy of the frequency range corresponding to that used in radio communications, usually 10,000 cycles per second to 300 billion cycles per second.
 (vibrating vibrating,
v using quivering hand motions made across the client's body for therapeutic purposes.
 energy waves) to send signals between different communication devices. With speakers sewn sewn  
v.
A past participle of sew.


sewn
Verb

a past participle of sew

Adj. 1.
 into the jacket's hood, and a microphone attached to the collar, "you don't need to go fishing [to make or take a call]," says Motorola spokesperson Steve Deutscher.
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Title Annotation:Technology/Electronics; ski jacket with remote control to mobile phone
Author:Price, Sean
Publication:Science World
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Mar 28, 2005
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