While smartphones are awesome little computers, one of the things that really makes them useful is their built-in sensors - many apps are made possible via a phone's accelerometer, gyroscope, GPS, ...

Before there was Nest Protect or Roost, the only warning that your smoke alarm battery was about to die was the impossible-to-ignore steady beep the device gave off. It was that sound that drove Ryan ...

The cochlear implant (CI) is the most successful neural prosthesis worldwide. Thanks to direct stimulation of the auditory nerve, it enables more than half a million people worldwide to hear, even ...

The skin-like sensors play a vital role in bridging the gap between human beings, machines and real/virtual environments, carrying tremendous potential for internet-of-things (IoTs), artificial ...

Finally. A complete package.The world's first wireless, battery-free...and affordable...sensor transmitter to integrate all sensor functions into a single module has been unveiled in North America for ...

More and more of the latest models of mobile phones are being equipped with such functions as GPS location indicators and navigation systems. Mobile phones with these functions make navigation easy ...

A research team has developed a skin-attachable auditory sensor, which recognizes human voices in noisy environments and when users wear facemasks. The new sensor will be useful in microphones that ...

Calcium sensor proteins are fundamental modulators of photoreceptor cell function, where they detect fluctuations in intracellular Ca²⁺ levels to finely tune the phototransduction cascade. These ...