We weren't so sure when we heard you could use cat litter to help dehumidify a room. Our own Ron Baker puts this to the test ...

After a major water leak flooded my home, I realized alerts alone weren’t sufficient—I needed automatic shutoff. This project combines a hacked Gröhe Guard system, an Arduino Nano, an ESP32, and the ...

W hen I first started building my smart home, I did what most people do: I bought a bunch of off-the-shelf smart devices, ...

Finally, R&D has always been a strong adopter for new sensing technologies by corporate, government, and university labs for conducting research involving tactile measurements or embedding into new ...

Using metamaterials, light-driven additive manufacturing, and other techniques, researchers have created innovative pressure ...

A research team has co-developed a nanomaterial-based 'wireless multi-sensing platform' for the early detection of pressure ...

When the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry honored Omar Yaghi—the "father of metal-organic frameworks," or MOFs—along with Susumu ...

Thanks to low-cost WiFi enabled microcontrollers such as the ESP8266 and ESP32, it’s never been a better time to roll your own smart home system. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t daunting for new ...

As wearable health technologies evolve, smart contact lenses (SCLs) are emerging as powerful platforms for non-invasive, real ...

Below, you’ll find a list of Baltimore Sun editorial staff, their email addresses and phone numbers. To give The Sun newsroom a general tip, email newstips@baltimoresun.com or call 410-332-6100. To ...

XPANCEO, a deep-tech company that develops smart contact lenses as the ultimate form factor for AI-powered XR computing, has unveiled six prototypes at GITEX Global 2025.