A new circuit layout makes it robust against cuts, damage, and removed areas. If a pair of long pants is too long, it is cut to length. A board that does not fit into a bookcase is sawed to... 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
University of Utah electrical engineers have developed a network of wireless sensors that can detect a person falling. This monitoring technology could be linked to a service that would call... Read more
A sensor developed at A*STAR can detect bladder cancer cells and track tumor progression Microelectronic engineers in Singapore have developed and tested sensor technology that can detect an... Read more
All those technologies may be possible thanks to a breakthrough at the Navy’s premier research lab Imagine: tiny sensors built into military combat gear to detect chemical or biological weap... Read more
Ubi Interactive has moved one step forward toward achieving visuals seen in science- fiction movies for years. Ubi with assistance from Microsoft has created technology that will turn any su... Read more
Molecules could soon be “scanned” in a fashion similar to imaging screenings at airports, thanks to a detector developed by University of Pittsburgh physicists. The detector, featured in a r... Read more
Things that were once dumb are now smart. At least that’s the trend for home appliances as of late. Canary, the self-proclaimed world’s first smart home security system, is launc... Read more
The MYO armband translates electrical activity produced by muscles into commands for gadgets I expected “gesture control” to be immediately intuitive. But as I slip on the MYO—a flexible ban... Read more
If scientists learn how to attach e-skin to prosthetic limbs, people with amputations might once again be able to feel changes in their environments. Using tiny gold particles and a kind of... Read more
A new technique for detecting cancer by imaging the consumption of sugar with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been unveiled by UCL scientists. The breakthrough could provide a safer and... Read more
TORO can respond sensitively to its environment It began in the summer of 2009, with two legs and a camera mounted on top – but it was still far from being a robot of humanoid appearance. Gr... Read more
Imagine a swarm of tiny devices only a few hundred nanometers in size that can detect trace amounts of toxins in a water supply or the very earliest signs of cancer in the blood. Now imagine... Read more
They look like normal pills, oblong and a little smaller than a daily vitamin. But if your doctor writes a prescription for these pills in the not-too-distant future, you might hear a new tw... 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
