For 2019, smartwatches are sleeker, slicker and getting more affordable
A friend recently looked at the smartwatch on my wrist and said, "Why are you wearing that?" He held up his cellphone. "This can do everything that can do."
Dec 27, 2018
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NASA's Mars InSight has traveled 300 million miles. The last one will be the most critical
On Sunday, about a dozen engineers and scientists gathered in the mission control room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. They listened intently through headsets while training their eyes on a curving wall of monitors to ...
High-performance, flexible, transparent force touch sensor for wearable devices
Researchers have reported a high-performance and transparent nanoforce touch sensor by developing a thin, flexible, and transparent hierarchical nanocomposite (HNC) film. The research team says their sensor simultaneously ...
Too much screen time? New phone controls for you and kids
Apple and Google want to help you spend less time on their phones—really. Like that time you checked Facebook at 3 a.m. Stats don't lie.
Optical pressure detector could improve robot skin, wearable devices and touch screens
A new type of pressure sensor based on light could allow the creation of sensitive artificial skins to give robots a better sense of touch, wearable blood-pressure monitors for humans and optically transparent touch screens ...
Apple apologizes and issues bug fix for 'way slower than it should be' MacBook Pros
Apple apologized Tuesday and issued a bug fix for thermal throttling performance issues on the latest MacBook Pro laptops that the company released just a couple of weeks ago. The issue had been raised by a YouTuber, Dave ...
Armband mimics a person's touch
Imagine a virtual world where someone touches your arm during a conversation and you feel the sensation as though they were with you.
Digitalisation meets the Middle Ages
Smartphones and touchscreens could turn museum visits into a digital and multimedia experience. In the months ahead, an example of this can be seen in Admont Abbey in Austria. In a special exhibition, the abbey is presenting ...
Sensor stickers transform the human body into a multi-touch surface
Sensors now make it possible to capture touches on the body very precisely, even from multiple fingers. Researchers have successfully tested a new prototype sensor in four different applications.
Uncovering the secrets of the human body's perception of touch
Scientific research has yielded deep understanding on the human senses of sight, hearing, smell, and taste. But knowledge about bodily perceptions of the sense of touch is still limited. For example, during a handshake, who ...
