Sentence examples for Pager from inspiring English sources

But his wristwatch-sized walkie-talkie did not take off with the public, although it inspired a similar gadget used by Dick Tracy, a cartoon character.Mr Gross believed that his pager, a device to alert the wearer with a message, would be seen as a boon by doctors who happened to be away from their surgeries.

Today some 300m are in use, but by the time the pager was in demand as a useful tool Mr Gross's patents had expired.

Patients arriving at RediClinic branches are given a pager, so that they can shop nearby until the clinic can see them.

For service technicians it might be nothing more than a display on a pager that tells them where to drive next.

The wearer's guardians define a perimeter beyond which they feel their charge should not wander, and receive alerts via mobile phone or pager when he has gone beyond these boundaries.The digital angel can also issue an alert when its wearer has fallen down, or when there has been an unexpected change in local temperature of the sort that might be caused, say, by someone falling into a pond.

But he did make a justifiable claim to be ahead in personalised communications: not just the walkie-talkie, but the pager and the cordless telephone.

OF THE ingenious people who have had a hand in developing the pager, the cordless phone and other urgent instruments of modern life, Al Gross could take much of the credit, or, if you like, the blame.

The courts have also ruled that telephone conversations intercepted by foreign countries and private pager messages sent from abroad can be used in criminal prosecutions.

Witness the success of the BlackBerry e-mail pager, made by Research in Motion, a Canadian firm.

If Seattlites buy Seiko's pager-watch, they can input information about their regular commutes or one-off trips into Seiko's website and receive emergency messages such as "H5 L1S HY 18" (translation: delay on Highway 5, lane one southbound, at Highway 18) to help them adjust their plans.All of these are meant to be profit-making services.

People get a pager-like device that clips on to their clothing.