The sensors in your smart device are a big part of what make it, well, smart. Sensors allow our devices to understand context— they tell phones where they are in space and how we’re using them. This ...

Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) accelerometers and vibration sensors represent a rapidly evolving field with significant implications for structural health monitoring, seismic detection, and industrial ...

STMicroelectronics has developed a three-in-one motion sensor designed for industrial IoT systems requiring both precision ...

Able to operate reliably from –55° to a high of 177°C, the Endevco model 2226C piezoelectric accelerometer has a typical sensitivity of 2.8 pC/G and exhibits excellent output-sensitivity stability ...

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "mCube MC3672: The smallest WLCSP MEMS Accelerometer for Wearables" report to their offering. With the MC3672, mCube has released the industry's ...

In an ongoing quest to bring you news about the guts of your next gadgets, here’s some riveting stuff about accelerometers. Remember when they first burst onto the scene? How much fun we had tilting ...

The 'spooky action at a distance' that once unnerved Einstein may be on its way to being as pedestrian as the gyroscopes that currently measure acceleration in smartphones. The "spooky action at a ...

Kionix’s KX23H integrated sensor hub packs a low-power three-axis accelerometer and a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller (MCU) into a 3- by 3- by 0.9-mm package. Kionix’s KX23H integrated sensor hub ...

Cheap paper accelerometers? Put us down for a dozen to start. They’re not quite ready for mass production yet but it looks like they’re on the way. [George Whitesides] led a team to develop the new ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A secret side project for a Hewlett-Packard engineer has quietly spawned an ultra-sensitive accelerometer. Now the PC giant hopes to leverage the novel device to propel it into a ...