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- A device that measures or detects a real-world condition, such as motion, heat or light and converts the condition into an analog or digital representation. An optical sensor detects...
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- Fujitsu is working on a steering wheel-mounted drowsiness sensor that will detect subtle changes in the driver's heart rate and respond with various wake-up calls, including opening the windows, blasting the radio and jolting the wheel. Seriously unconscious drivers might get all three at once. (Here's hoping that sheer surprise...
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- 1,000-device personal networks in 2017?
- According to ICT Results in 'The Network of Everything,' wireless experts estimate that our personal networks will include about a thousand devices in 2017, including dozens of sensors checking our health and our home. This is why European researchers have launched in 2006 a networking project called 'MAGNET Beyond.' The...
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- Gallery: Feeling sick? Take a pill with a chip
- The iPill includes a microprocessor, battery, pH sensor, temperature sensor, RF wireless transceiver, fluid pump and drug reservoir. by Andy Smith
- Image galleries 2008-11-13
- Robotic sensors on Mount St. Helens
- U.S. researchers are developing a new robust wireless communication systems for Mount St. Helens. With the help of a $1.63 million NASA grant, they've developed a dozen of smart robotic sensors which talk to each other and send information to a central information hub, the Johnston Ridge Observatory located atop...
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- easyBloom plant sensor
- EasyBloom is a digital babysitting system for a garden. It consists of a flower-shaped, USB-enabled plant sensor gizmo, and an online plant-matchmaking database. People with green thumbs might not need it, but this product could be attractive if you'd like some high-tech help to keep your plants alive and thriving....
- Product reviews 2008-10-26
- Smart fabrics and interactive textiles
- The European market for smart fabrics and interactive textiles SFIT represents about 300 million euro today and is growing at a yearly rate of about 20%. These smart textiles are used in 'clothes that monitor your heart, measure the chemical composition of your body fluids or keep track of you...
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Wireless soil sensors to help farmers
- A research team at Iowa State University ISU is developing wireless soil sensors to improve farming while minimizing environmental impacts. ISU says that 'the prototype sensors are designed to collect and send data about soil moisture -- and eventually soil temperature and nutrient content -- while working completely underground.' According...
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- New Digital Camera Announcements and More from Photokina 2008
- Photokina 2008, the world's largest photographic and imaging tradeshow, officially kicked off yesterday, but there have been lots of new product announcements in the leadup. Here are some highlights of products being shown and announced at the show in Cologne, Germany. by Janice Chen
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Using tree power to prevent forest fires?
- Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT think it's possible to use the energy generated by trees to power a network of wireless sensors to prevent spreading forest fires. These sensors are equipped with off-the-shelf batteries that can be slowly recharged using electricity generated by the trees themselves. 'The...
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Lockdown (zip)
- Lockdown is a Mac security application built from the popular iAlertU. With a new interface, splash screen, and icon, Lockdown makes securing your Mac while you step away even easier than ever. You can customize its detection features by activating your computer's motion-sensors, keyboard-sensors, external device sensors, MagSafe sensors, and...
- Software downloads 2008-09-03
- Wireless networks mimicking biological systems
- The goal of the EU-funded WINSOC project is to build self-organizing networks of wireless sensors by applying principles learned from living organisms. These wireless sensors will be used for a wide range of environmental monitoring purposes. As says the WINSOC scientific coordinator, 'Living systems are intrinsically robust against cells dying...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- (Gallery: Scientists develop eye-shaped camera)
- (Gallery: Scientists develop eye-shaped camera)Great, in theory.Problem is, the sensor will have to be made to match the lens in front of it, and if you change lenses, which professional imaging people are fond of, you'd need to change sensors in order for the focal plane to match.Scientists develop eye-shaped...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- Sensors to detect oral cancer in saliva
- Sensors to detect oral cancer in salivaSensors detect oral cancerI was fascinated by this article due to the fact that I have a very good friend with melanoma cancer that is spreading all over his body. It began behind his eye which he has since lost to cancer, moved...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- Sensors to detect oral cancer in saliva
- According to the American Cancer Society ACS, there will be about 35,000 new cases of oral cancer in the U.S. this year. The ACS also estimates that 'when oral cancer is identified in its early stages, patient survival rate is almost 90 percent, compared with 50 percent when the disease...
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- NASA tests fiber optic wing shape sensors
- The Ikhana unmanned aircraft system has been used by NASA last year to fight wildfires from the sky and this month to provide images of current Californian wildfires to authorities. But Ikhana is also used to evaluate advanced sensing technology installed on its wings to improve its efficiency. The new...
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- 'Sensing' more about what's coming in Windows 7
- 'Sensing' more about what's coming in Windows 7Windows sensors will bring a new management interfaceto set them up, and then they'll crash unexpectedly, and make things stop responding.There'll be a "grandfather" sensor which automatically reboot the machine, and does some protocol sniffing on your box, to make sure that Microsoft...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- Western Digital releases 7200RPM 320GB notebook drive
- Western Digital has raised the bar on the notebook hard drives with their new "Black" line of Scorpio drives. The new 2.5-inch SATA WD3200BEKT hard drives spin at 7200RPM which is faster than their 5400RPM (WD3200BEVT) Scorpio drives that I reviewed on 16 November 2007. The new...
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- A 30-picowatt processor for sensors
- A 30-picowatt processor for sensorsunfair comparisoncomparing sensor chips to laptop computers is pretty unfair since the software running on a notebook computer isn't optimized to run together and, really, I think it's impressive that notebook computers deal with different disk, CPU, network, video, etc.... loads pretty well.the sensor chips, which...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-15
- A 30-picowatt processor for sensors
- University of Michigan (U-M) researchers have developed an ultra low power microchip which 'uses 30,000 times less power in sleep mode and 10 times less in active mode than comparable chips now on the market.' It only consumes 30 picowatts in sleep mode, which means that a simple watch battery...
- Blog posts 2008-06-15
- Buses as mobile sensing platforms?
- According to European researchers, modern buses could be used as mobile sensing platforms, sending out live information to be used to control traffic and detect road hazards. The 3.83 million euro EU-funded MORYNE project was completed in March 2008 with a test in Berlin, Germany. During this test, the researchers...
- Blog posts 2008-05-26
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