'E-mail miles' tracks how far your email has travelled

• Email miles is a new GPS based system that tells you how far your email has travelled.

• Inventor Jonah Brucker-Cohen has developed a new technology which uses GPS and internet tracking to calculate the number of miles an email has travelled before reaching an inbox. 
• The system tracks where a message was sent from and where it was received.
• The system developer, Jonah Brucker-Cohen states that the system calculates the total distance between the two and displays it on the screen alongside a map. 
• He stated, that he hoped it would remind people how quickly they can communicate today in a digital world, according to 'The Times.'

The system does all of its time and distance calculations using the internet and a ‘coordinate mapping system’. When all of the mileage amounts are tallied, it adds them all and provides the user with a map, the countries, continents and miles the email traveled.

• The system shows how indirect the route of emails can be. 
• For eg, an email sent from New York to Dakar, Senegal, travel's 790 miles (1,271km) to a server in Chicago Illinois, and that went 2,163 miles (3,481km) to Mountain View, California; 1,699 miles (2,734km) to Dallas; 4,745 miles (7,636km) to London; and 2,718 miles (4,374km) to its destination - 12,115 miles (19,497 km) in total.