News tagged with motion sensing

Microsoft Kinect makes moves on computers

Microsoft on Thursday began letting software developers imbue computers with voice and motion-sensing technology from its Kinect controller for the Xbox 360 videogame console.

Technology / Software

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Quake' reveals how eyes and ears keep us balanced

(PhysOrg.com) -- An earthquake machine has been used by vision scientists to confirm that instead of working in isolation, our visual and middle-ear systems work together, to give us an improved sense of balance.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 29, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fujitsu Develops Golf-Swing Analyzer Featuring Latest Sensing Technology

Fujitsu today announced that it has codeveloped a sensing technology that accurately measures the body movements of a person carrying a sensor-equipped mobile phone. The technology was developed in collaboration ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Connected security systems tether homes to owners' smartphones

When Debbie Klava's daughters come home from school in Elk Grove, Calif., she knows the minute they walk in the front door. Even though she's working in an office 90 minutes away, she gets an email or cellphone text when ...

Technology / Telecom

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Scudder makes first observations of process linked to northern lights

(Phys.org) -- A University of Iowa researcher wants you to visualize a plate of spaghetti when you think of the northern lights.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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Good vibes: Coupling electron spin states and carbon nanotube vibrations

(Phys.org) -- An electron’s spin is separate from its motion, and is suitable for use in both highly-precise magnetic sensing as well as a qubit in quantum computing. Recently, scientists at the University ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

NASA Goddard delivers magnetometers for next mission to Mars

Magnetometers built by scientists and engineers at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. for NASA's Mars Atmosphere And Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission have been delivered to the University ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Harnessing the awesome power of the ocean waves

MBARI engineer Andy Hamilton looks out his office window in Moss Landing and points at the waves crashing on the beach below. “Pretty impressive, aren’t they? You’d think there’d be a way ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 39 | with audio podcast

Laser scan at full speed

Is a contact wire missing or is it faulty? What‘s the situation in front of the entrance to a railway station or a tunnel? A 3D laser scanner can increase the train‘s safety and reliability.

Physics / General Physics

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists measure Martian sand movement: Dune migration rates appear to be similar to those on Earth

Last year, images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured sand dunes and ripples moving across the surface of Mars—observations that challenged previously held beliefs that there was not a lot ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Why women wiggling in high heels could help improve prosthetic limbs and robots

People walking normally, women tottering in high heels and ostriches strutting all exert the same forces on the ground despite very differently-shaped feet, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust ...

Biology / Other

created May 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Beaming up on the way to space

(Phys.org) -- Space may be the final frontier. But often a few trips to PML are necessary before things can get off the ground. One recent case in point is the test of an instrument called the Extreme Ultraviolet ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Inside Hitler's mind

A secret analysis of Adolf Hitler’s mental state which was drawn up by British Intelligence in April 1942 has been uncovered by a researcher, having apparently lain unread since the war.

Other Sciences / Other

created May 04, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0


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