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Engineers Develop New Finger Vibration-Based Security System

The catchy Beach Boys song, “Good, good, good, good vibrations”, and so on, was a big hit in 1966.

31 Oct 2017

Underground Optical Fibers Used as Seismic Sensors for Monitoring, Studying Earthquakes

Thousands of miles of underground optical fibers run through California’s San Francisco Bay Area supplying high-speed internet and HD video to businesses and homes.

20 Oct 2017

Researchers Develop New Wearable System for Visually Impaired Users

For decades, computer scientists have been working on automatic navigation systems to help the visually impaired. However, it has been difficult to come up with something easy and reliable to use as the white cane, which refers to a particular variety of metal-tipped cane that visually impaired people mostly use to identify clear walking paths.

1 Jun 2017

Researchers Develop New Sensor Technology to Measure Vibrations and Flow

Do spiders use their web as a computer? New research, led by the Universities of Bristol and Oxford, will look at spiders’ webs to investigate their computational capabilities and based on this research they will develop new sensor technology to measure vibrations and flow.

14 Mar 2017

Swift Sensors Unveils Cloud-Based Wireless Sensor System for Commercial and Industrial Applications

Swift Sensors, Inc. debuted today as an Industrial IoT company providing a cloud-based wireless sensor system for industrial and commercial applications.

9 Dec 2016

Advanced Vibration Monitor Added to Rental Fleet

Ashtead Technology has added the Vibrock V9000 Ground Vibration Monitor to its rental fleet of instruments. Portable, lightweight and battery powered, the V9000 is supplied fully calibrated and ready for immediate use, making it ideal for a wide variety of site investigation applications.

From Ashtead Technology 7 Dec 2016

Wearable Acoustic Sensor Monitors Heart Health, Detects Speech Signals

Researchers have developed a small, soft, and wearable acoustic sensor that can measure vibrations in the human body, monitor the heart health, and detect spoken words. The new electronic device was developed by scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder and Northwestern University.

17 Nov 2016

Smartwatch Detects Finger Taps, Helps Tuning Guitar

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University discovered that a smartwatch is capable of detecting and distinguishing a wide range of flicks, taps and scratches by the fingers and hands, and all that is needed is a software upgrade that repurposes the existing accelerometer of the device.

18 Oct 2016

Scientists Develop Rice Grain-Sized Wireless Sensor to Monitor Organs, Control Prosthetics in Future

A new miniature sensor could be inserted into our bodies to monitor our organs like a microscopic Fitbit, or even to give quadri- and paraplegics the power to control robotic arms or legs.

10 Aug 2016