Espionage fiction often relies on fantastical technology to advance the plot or save the hero from certain death. Many television shows ground their gadgets in scientific plausibility or base them on ...

A modern take on a classic device.

Silicon-based CMOS camera sensors are cheap and plentiful, but they’re rarely used to their full potential: they can detect a ...

Before wireless sensors and connected security systems became commonplace, protecting a room could be as simple as a laser ...

Print Join the Discussion View in the ACM Digital Library Advances in sensor quality coupled with the widespread adoption of IoT devices with limited CPU power 6 have led to a situation where the ...

Although the Raspberry Pi started out as a way for kids to learn to code, it has turned into so much more since its invention in 2012. At first, the Pi was something of a simplified computer, and ...

Every time someone snaps a selfie, records a sunset or scans a QR code, they are unknowingly using technology built on a scientific idea once dismissed as strange and almost unbelievable. More than a ...

This paper presents the design and implementation of SPiDR, an ultra-low-power spatial sensing system for miniature mobile robots. This acoustic sensor produces a cross-sectional map of the ...

One would think that a US$99,000 telescope requires specialist training and a thick instruction manual. But the new Hyperia from French company Vaonis flips that assumption on its head. It's powerful ...

SensiBel has created a couple of evaluation kits for its tiny SBM100B laser-based microphones. Evaluation kit Aurora (right) has two microphones and is intended to be used for stereo recording ...

This paper reports a useful low-cost platform for studying mosquito behaviors such as flight activity, sugar feeding, and host-seeking responses over the course of several weeks, and demonstrates key ...