All the stories tagged with sensors

Motion Amplification Reveals Invisible Life Signs

03/01/2013, Researchers from the MIT have come up with a great way to use tiny changes in video recordings to reveal things that would otherwise be invisible to the naked eye and would require on-body sensors to show. For example, by [...]

Car Pedestrian Collision Sensor Limits Injury Risk

02/15/2013, You never want to experience it, but whenever a pedestrian is involved in a collision with a car, his or her head can often suffer grave injuries due to a collision with hard elements underneath the hood, such as the [...]

Retina trackers used in supermarkets to monitor your shopping choices

07/12/2012, Research shows that consumers have the tendency to please their testers each time they are asked for their opinions about a certain product in the market. This poses a challenge to companies since they usually ship large amounts of products [...]

OmniVision unveils 12.7 megapixel OV12830 for high-end smartphones and tablets

05/31/2012, Following the revelation of OmniVision‘s OV16820 and OV16825 camera sensors last week that boasted support for up to 16MP and Quad Full High Definition video capture, the California-based digital imaging company unveiled its latest addition today – the OV12830. The [...]

Biosensors attached to Everest climbers to help Scientists study disease

05/22/2012, Members of an expedition sponsored by National Geographic and The North Face are climbing the summit of Mount Everest with body sensors attached to their bodies. The said sensors will monitor the climbers day and night, collecting data to help [...]

Heat-Proof Sensors to Help Predict Volcanic Eruptions From Deep Inside Volcanoes

09/20/2010, Newcastle engineers are proposing a plan to create a heatproof wireless sensor that could be dropped deep into a volcano to help scientists learn more about, and predict, volcanic eruptions. The sensors would be dropped into a volcano’s caldera and [...]