A biodegradable pressure sensor could help people with knee injuries exercise and heal faster, University of Connecticut ...

Gaetano Borriello at U. Washington; Intel, Small embedded computers and communications protocols; Deborah Estrin at U. California, Los Angeles, Networking, middleware, data handling, and hardware for ...

Wireless and battery-free radio-frequency (RF) sensors can be used to create physical spaces that ambiently sense and respond to human activities. Making such sensors ultra-flexible and transparent is ...

Lenovo has released a new wireless gaming mouse in China, the Lecoo Bellator GM103. It is priced at 249 yuan (approximately ...

Stent implantation is widely used to treat coronary artery disease, yet in-stent restenosis (ISR) remains a major clinical challenge. Fractional flow reserve (FFR) is the gold-standard index for ...

The wiring harness in modern vehicles can stretch more than two miles and weigh as much as 125 lbs., so any technology that can help reduce this increasingly heavy and complex component in new ...

Researchers in Drexel University’s College of Engineering have developed a solar-powered, wireless sensor system that can continually monitor bridge deformation and could be used to alert authorities ...

The landscape of distributed sensors and the growing demand for higher fidelity data in industrial, in-building, facility management, and for customer/audience analytics have been steadily growing and ...

Imagine a cloud of sensors, each the size of a grain of sand or even smaller, blown aloft by hurricane winds and relaying data on the storm to weather stations below. Picture an invisible sensor ...

Since manufacturers rely on various critical equipment, they often cannot effectively monitor each one. Major technical issues ensue if a problem goes undetected for long enough, making unplanned ...

Door sensors detect door position (i.e., open or closed) based on the precise gap between the magnet and the reed switch.