POSTS TAGGED AS sensors

The Environment Monitors You

CubeSensor
Remember the “8 Ball” toy?  You asked a question, shook the 8 Ball and it gave you an “answer.”  [MORE]

Spray-On Nanotubes for Inexpensive Sensors

Spary-on Carbon Nanotubes
This piece, about carbon nanotubes in an aqueous solution that can be sprayed onto any kind of [MORE]

“Visual Odometry”

Visual Odometry
It takes a lot of technology to simulate a sense of vision. But researchers at Auburn University [MORE]

Color-Changing Glove Detects Toxic Substances

Toxic Detecting Glove
Fraunhofer is Europe’s largest applied research organization, with 66 institutes, as well as centers in the US [MORE]

Vibrating Underwear: “Viewer Discretion Advised”

Following its marketing smash in distributing 150,000 free condoms to some 10,000 athletes at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in [MORE]

Material with “Switchable Wettability”

HHM
Here’s a piece about a new material which, by changing pressure, light, temperature, chemical signaling or electro-magnetic fields, could [MORE]

Issues in Wireless Device Engineering

This piece does not specifically address the low power sensors and wireless networking issues in healthcare (e.g. asset tracking, [MORE]

Color Sensing for Skin Diseases

Mazet Color Analysis
MAZeT GmbH (Erfurt, Germany) makes a multi-spectral color sensor that can be used (and may already be [MORE]

Robotic Glove for Detecting Breast Lumps

MedSensation Robotic Hand
Engineers in Boston have designed a robotic sensor glove, called “Med Sensation,” that detects vibration, [MORE]

Overview of Wireless Sensors

Micro Sensors
Though wearable, implantable and ingestible medical devices appear to be recent technology, they have a long history dating [MORE]

Press Release -Speakers Sought for Automate 2013 Conference

(Ann Arbor, Michigan – July 16, 2012)   Speakers are now being sought for the Automate 2013 conference in Chicago, January [MORE]

Smart “Jamies”

Exmovere “Jamies”

Exmovere Holdings (McLean, VA) takes its name from the Latin for “emotion.”  The company makes several kinds [MORE]

Designing a Smart Phone with an e-Nose

Sensory Vapour Technology for Electronic Nose
During the 1970’s, Linus Pauling at Cal Tech did pioneering work in breath analysis, [MORE]

Graphene Bionics

Cortical Neurons Grown on Graphene
Biomaterials researchers are constantly looking for substances that can interface with human tissue, such as [MORE]