Students at Scotland's Robert Gordon University are due to start receiving lecture notes on their mobile phones. Mobile phones would wipe out the inconvenience asssociated with carrying bulky paper handouts around school. The system, which has been named AmbieSense, shall make use of hi-tech chips in lecture rooms.

This technology shall beam information to mobile phones nearby. If successful, the project could spell the end of the traditional image of students moving between lectures weighed down with piles of paper notes. Instead students will be able to download handouts, timetables and other work on to their phones.

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