Potential applications range from air-quality monitors to electronic skin Researchers at the Technische Universität München (TUM) are showing the way toward low-cost, industrial-scale manufa... Read more
Could save manufacturers millions in maintenance costs, lower fuel consumption A new, highly-accurate temperature sensor could save manufacturers millions in maintenance costs, lower fuel co... Read more
Tiny detectors that can sniff out everything from explosives and biotoxins to smuggled humans Sandia National Laboratories scientists are thinking small, building on decades of sensor work t... Read more
Sensor technology: Microphones are designed to capture sound. But they turn out to be able to capture other sorts of information, too MICROPHONES exist in many shapes and sizes, and work in... Read more
On most aircraft ice-detection systems, the sensors can’t be located right on the aerofoil surfaces that most need to be kept ice-free – the addition of a protruding sensor would ruin their... Read more
Security takes top priority in laboratories and in production. In the future, employees exposed to risks will only have to put on a glove in order to receive a toxic substance warning: This... Read more
The future of health care could be found in a tiny, paper-thin skin patch that collects vital information. The Bio-patch sensor developed by researchers at Stockholm’s KTH Royal Instit... Read more