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Not one to miss all the demand for cameras with extra functionality and adaptability, Sony decided to build a new type of camera CMOS sensor.The CMOS sensor made by Sony is unique in how it places the pixel section (with the back-illuminated structure pixels) on the chip that has the circuit section (which processes ... |
23 January 2012
10:57 GMT |
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We spoke about how Sharp had invented the world's thinnest CMOS camera module and how it has been used in the SH–01D handset on NTT DoCoMo.
Now, the special functionality of that module has been shown on video.
In addition to all the capabilities that come naturally with being a 12.1 megapixel, 1080p m... |
9 December 2011
17:31 GMT |
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Microsoft's Chief Executive Officer, Steve Ballmer, believes the next generation of Kinect games are now being released, as developers can finally take advantage of the sensor's power and deliver upgraded experiences catered directly for it and the Xbox 360 console.The Kinect was launched into sales success... |
20 October 2011
10:01 GMT |
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Touch input is always evolving, like everything else, and it looks like Microsoft really wants responsiveness, going as far as to make a sensor that can pick up commands through clothing.By now, most everyone will be more than familiar with the idea of touch input.In fact, this sort of interactivity is so widespread... |
18 October 2011
10:14 GMT |
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Microsoft has revealed a few details about the design and engineering process through which its new Kinect motion and voice sensor went before it was released onto the market, process that ensured the device would keep working even after serious abuse.
Microsoft's Kinect sensor has been a huge success, managi... |
22 August 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Creating things out of thin air has always been a phrase sued to point out the implausibility of things appearing out of nowhere, especially resources of any sort, but it looks like some scientists might have invented something that could challenge the status of that choice of words.
Wireless frequencies have lon... |
9 July 2011
05:26 GMT |
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Research has shown that dogs can identify bowel cancer within breath and stool samples with an extreme accuracy and even in the early stages of the disease.These findings suggest that there are chemical compounds for specific cancers which travel through the body, this idea being a starting point to developing tests ... |
31 January 2011
17:41 GMT |
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A team of engineers and students at the University of Rhode Island invented the lab-on-a-chip, a device that allows fast and inexpensive blood tests, and this might just be the next application on your smartphone.For a normal blood test, a vial of blood is shipped to a laboratory for analysis, and it sometimes takes ... |
10 January 2011
05:21 GMT |
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Apple has filed a patent for hand-held devices with multiple touch sensing spots. “The touch sensing devices may for example be selected from touch panels, touch screens or touch sensitive housings,” the abstract of the invention reads.In one embodiment, the invention relates to a handheld electronic whic... |
22 September 2010
09:30 GMT |
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Not wasting any time whatsoever, the team at iFixit put the white MacBook aside to dissect yet another one of Apple’s new products - the Magic Mouse. Although tearing down the device takes away some of the its “magic,” it’s always good to learn how Apple’s stuff works, for a better under... |
22 October 2009
05:22 GMT |
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Yet another Apple patent filing has been spotted on the Internet, this time involving an audio sensor to auto-adjust iPhone ringtones. While not exactly mind-blowing, Apple insists the invention be called theirs. So, here's the plan.Now, more than ever, devices such as TV sets, computers and mobile phones are be... |
22 January 2009
09:40 GMT |
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A new type of sensor will solve issues related to the fact that most neuron activity readers don't stay in place for very long periods of time, thus giving doctors and surgeons a hard time in reading their data and making informed decisions based on them. The newly-designed electrode features small, microscopic ... |
11 December 2008
05:45 GMT |
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Very soon, metal detectors in airports could become only an addition, if at all, to the high-tech threat identifying systems currently being developed, enhanced or already in use. We've already talked today about the mood detecting software, while, just recently, we also discussed the matter of those scanners t... |
3 December 2008
11:29 GMT |
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Undergraduate students at the University of Florida (UF) developed a new wireless technology-based sensor that could detect the up-and-down movements of a baby's chest while sleeping. If the infant stops breathing or gulps for air, the device emits a warning signal, notifying the parents that something is wrong.... |
3 December 2008
04:26 GMT |
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A recently-developed tiny solar array is sparking a very vivid interest in Army officials. The array is comprised of 20 small solar cells, each a little over a millimeter long. This early version of the solar device built from organic polymers is able to generate only 7 volts of electric power for the time bein... |
8 November 2008
06:00 GMT |
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It appears that two and a half millennia of natural activity were not a problem for the large construction of the Acropolis to withstand, as it successfully faced powerful storms, extreme temperatures, drought, snow and earthquakes. The ruined appearance it has today is rather the work of man than that of nature. Thi... |
6 November 2008
03:38 GMT |
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During several years of development, robots have been taught to do many things, but recently a lot more attention was focused on their mimicking the human appearance, movement, feelings and reason in order to ensure people's better social acceptance. In this respect, a robot able of self-analysis and self-adapta... |
1 October 2008
07:41 GMT |
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Lucky folks over at iLounge got a hold of Apple's new iPhone 3G and found out that it sports an extra, not mentioned in the official specs list a second proximity sensor, bringing the total number of sensors found on the device to three.iLounge wasn't counting the accelerometer, of course. The website not... |
13 June 2008
09:58 GMT |
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Measuring small variations in weak magnetic fields can prove rather difficult at times, especially when other stronger magnetic fields are present. Take for example the magnetic sensors used in the automotive industry. They are used to measure a whole range of parameters, including temperature variations, minute air ... |
9 June 2008
06:50 GMT |
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They haven't yet entered the market, but the smart textiles are continuously improving, going beyond measuring body temperature and heart activity, which may seem obsolete now. New mini-biosensors integrated in the fabrics can analyze body fluids, like a drop of sweat, delivering more information on the wearer&#... |
31 March 2008
04:36 GMT |
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Sony has made today an important step towards the big boys' playground where Canon and recently Nikon are playing the full-frame game. The Konica-Minolta inheritor has today announced the development of its first 35mm full-frame CMOS sensor. An impressive one, we might add. With no less than 24.81 effective mega... |
30 January 2008
09:10 GMT |
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Don't you believe that your body knows how your gut content tastes like? A team from the Department of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine has detected the same receptors for sweet taste in the tongue, T1R3 and the taste G protein gustducin, in the human intestines. These two sweet-sensing proteins ar... |
22 August 2007
06:35 GMT |
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A new microscopic imaging technique makes use of the smallest nanoscale applications created by man to take snapshots of incredibly tiny biological structures, like viruses and proteins, smaller than an individual cell.The new method would be able to perform this task with unprecedented resolution with the help of a... |
28 June 2007
05:06 GMT |
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Many of today's cars are equipped with state-of-the-art driver assist technologies, like cruise control, anti-lock brakes, automatic transmission and adaptive headlights, designed to do things beyond the natural abilities of human drivers, thus relieving him of some manual operations during complex driving situ... |
27 June 2007
09:01 GMT |
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It seems that the days of repairing the car in the backyard are gone. Dad will no longer spend the week-ends working on the family car, getting full of oil and grease. Already, most cars have most of engine parts encapsulated and hard to access without the proper tools and knowledge, but a new intelligent system is ... |
20 June 2007
09:10 GMT |
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The history of aviation, though short (only a bit more than a century) has known the greatest advances in terms of design technology, building materials and performances of civilian and military aircraft. The first planes were made of wood, cardboard and cloth, now they are built using the latest development in arti... |
19 June 2007
12:25 GMT |
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The highest resolution available today for the 35mm standard is a performance achieved by Canon in the form of the 1Ds Mark II, which should have a successor in the nearby future. But the 16,7MP sported by the full-frame CMOS sensor are nothing compared to what Canon has cooked up. It might not be yet available for p... |
5 June 2007
10:09 GMT |
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A new technology is developing sensors that could precisely locate any passenger aboard a plane who tries to use chemical or bacteriological agents to take over the plane. They are so accurate that they immediately identify the seat where the substance is released.Terrorist activities around the world have increased... |
23 May 2007
05:08 GMT |
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NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in the US, has presented a prototype network that is the first capable of remote synchronization of light waves from two "frequency combs"-advanced laboratory tools for precisely measuring frequencies of light.It's a flexible network design that can be t... |
14 May 2007
04:29 GMT |
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A newly developed sensor may be installed on future submarines to allow them to navigate using electric fields just like most marine and freshwater fish do, using the sensor called lateral line.Fish usually have all the senses that humans use, although in various ratios. Most of them have eyes that have color visio... |
5 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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News about earthquakes and the damage they produce are becoming more frequent as the media now reach almost all "four corners" of the Earth. An earthquake is the result of the sudden release of stored energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. At the Earth's surface, earthquakes may manifest t... |
17 April 2007
02:55 GMT |
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September 11, 2001 - New York, USA; July 7, 2005 - London, UK; September 2, 2004 - Moscow, Russia; March 11, 2004 - Madrid, and the list could go on...The terrorist attacks have made the whole world see the real threat of international terrorism in a different light. Researchers from many countries have concentrated... |
10 April 2007
08:51 GMT |
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Last year, Georgia Institute of Technology researcher Zhong Lin Wang demonstrated that zinc oxide nanowires produce current when flexed with an atomic-force microscope. Now Wang has harnessed that nanogenerator effect in an array of nanowires that could produce as much as 4 watts/cubic centimeter. "We are creating a... |
10 April 2007
05:20 GMT |
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Samsung Electronics, one of the leaders in advanced semiconductor technology, announced recently an 8.4 megapixel CMOS image sensor (CIS) with a 1.4 pixel design at Samsung's fourth annual Mobile Solution Forum.The new CIS chip provides a high signal to noise ratio (SNR), a key measure of overall image quality. ... |
27 March 2007
04:31 GMT |
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In the current war against terrorism, a new weapon has emerged. Employing lasers and tuning forks, a team at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has made a chemical sensing technique that even overpasses current defense and homeland security chemical detection requirements. The Quartz Laser Photo-Acoustic Sensi... |
21 March 2007
10:53 GMT |
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Researchers link motor ability, from playing a physical game to a piano, as partly innate and partly the result of practice, which is just persistence. The innate part to achieve skilled performances is based on the brain's architecture, a trait genetically determined. A team at the Salk Institute for Biological... |
2 March 2007
09:32 GMT |
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