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Kinect in Windows 8 Laptops Is Real, Report Claims

After registering an impressive success with Kinect on Xbox, and the over 18 million sold units are proof of that, Microsoft is gearing up for making a splash with Kinect for Windows as well. Back in January, the company announced plans to release Kinect for Windows SDK as soon as tomorrow, and to have the sensor ...

31 January 2012
10:03 GMT

EPIC Motion Sensor Studies Your Heart from a Distance

Medical exams can be really harsh on one's privacy, but Plessy Semiconductors says it managed to make at least one checkup easier on everyone involved. The British company introduced an ECG (Electrocardiography) sensor that doesn't need electroconductive gels, sticky electrodes or anything of that sort to...

3 November 2011
05:59 GMT

Next Windows Phone with New Features for Developers

On Wednesday, during the MIX11 conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced the upcoming availability of a new flavor of its Windows Phone platform this fall, codenamed Mango, and also a wide range of new features that would be available for application developers. This fall, the next version of Windows Phone wi...

14 April 2011
02:04 GMT

Nintendo DS2 Will Arrive This Year

Satoru Iwata, the president of Nintendo in Japan, hinted that a successor to the DS handheld was being readied for launch later in the year and that it might have a motion sensor. The company he heads has since stated that his words were misinterpreted by the media. But the rumors about the impending announcement of ...

18 January 2010
05:41 GMT

Accelerometers in One of Three Phones by 2010

A recent report published by research firm iSuppli Corp shows that accelerometers are expected to see a great adoption by next year, and that they will be included in one third of the mobile phones that will come to the market in 2010. According to the firm, this is the result of the important role this feature has i...

10 July 2009
04:01 GMT

How Motion Sensors Work

There are two types of motion sensors currently commercially available, the active sensors and passive sensors. A motion sensor is classified as being active only when it emits some kind of energy into the surrounding medium to make an accurate reading, whether it is infrared light, microwave radiation or sound waves...

7 May 2008
06:04 GMT

e-Revolution's Speaker "Says": Wave your Hand to Adjust the Volume

Volume buttons are compulsory when it comes to building speakers, right? Wrong! e-Revolution’s magic-ball like motion speaker proves it. Thanks to the devices' built-in motion sensor, you can adjust the volume by moving your hand up and down in front of it. It's not just an ordinary speaker though. The Mot...

1 May 2007
18:06 GMT


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