News tagged with motion sensor

Whale sharks do the math to avoid that sinking feeling

They are the largest fish species in the ocean, but the majestic gliding motion of the whale shark is, scientists argue, an astonishing feat of mathematics and energy conservation. In new research published ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 25, 2010 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (6) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Microsoft revamps online game service, more social

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is creating a new online games hub and making it more social by linking it to players' Facebook and Windows Live accounts.

Technology / Software

created Nov 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Review: Kinect motion-sensing system impresses

There are a lot of futuristic things we're still waiting on: jet packs for the entire family, self-driving cars and time-travel, to name a few. But one new, pretty darn amazing bit of technology has finally ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 04, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 7

Invisible helmet for the hair-consious cyclists (w/ Video)

The latest accessory for cyclists comes in the form of an inflatable airbag -- for the head. A Stockholm-based industrial duo by the names of Terese Alstin and Anna Haupt have developed a solution for those ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Oct 22, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 13 | with audio podcast weblog

Good vibrations: New atom-scale products on horizon

The generation of an electric field by the compression and expansion of solid materials is known as the piezoelectric effect, and it has a wide range of applications ranging from everyday items such as watches, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 23, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Mixed reality cookbook

What we perceive in the world is highly influenced by what we are looking for. That is old news. Now European researchers have used this theory to create a convincing and engaging 'mixed reality', and they ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jul 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Quantifying human behavior one MoCap data point at a time (w/ Video)

Two actors wrapped in motion sensors circle each other, as engineering researchers stand at the perimeter of a USC Viterbi School of Engineering laboratory, taking note.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 25, 2010 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Electronic spectacles coming to market soon

(PhysOrg.com) -- US company PixelOptics has invented electronic spectacles that can automatically change focus as you lower your head to read a book, and could spell the end of the bifocal.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jun 23, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Nintendo unveils 3-D handheld DS videogame device

Nintendo on Tuesday unveiled a new generation DS handheld videogame system that lets people play in 3-D without using special glasses.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jun 15, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

30 years after Mount St. Helens blast, agency pushes high-tech warning system

The first earthquake rattled Mount St. Helens on March 20, 1980 -- nearly two months before the mountain erupted. But it took awhile for anyone to notice.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new device helps monitor low-level physical activity with a cell phone

About two thirds of the American population is overweight or obese, putting them at higher risk for health problems such as heart disease, stroke, cancer and diabetes. The obesity epidemic in America is the result of poor ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 26, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Microsensors without microfabrication

(PhysOrg.com) -- Miniature motion sensors are everywhere these days, detecting the orientation of cell phones, deploying air bags in cars and measuring stresses in buildings and mechanical systems. But manufacturing ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Epson Toyocom Develops the World's Smallest Single Package 6-Axis Sensor

Epson Toyocom Corporation, the leader in crystal devices, today announced the development of the AH-6100LR, the world's smallest 6-axis sensor. This low-noise, low-power product comprises a 3-axis QMEMS quartz ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Moving through time

Although we can't technically travel through time (yet), when we think of the past or the future we engage in a sort of mental time travel. This uniquely human ability to psychologically travel through time arguably sets ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 21, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (11) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Sony Debuts Digital Still Camera with Back-Illuminated 'Exmor R' CMOS Sensor

Sony today announced two new Cyber-shot cameras (DSC-TX1 and DSC-WX1 models) that provide unprecedented advances in low-light performance with approximately twice the sensitivity of cameras with traditional ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0