Mar 20
If you’ve ever been in a situation where you needed to draw up a floor plan or recreate a room’s dimensions, then you’ll appreciate what RoomScan can do for you. … Continue reading
Nov 12
TapTap is a wristband that pairs with another TapTap wristband to bring you and a loved one closer together. You tap-tap your TapTap, and your special friend feels a gentle vibration in the paired wristband, wherever in the world the two of you may be. But that’s just the Kickstarter bait. The real potential of […]
Oct 23
The iOS 7.0.3 update is here, and it looks like the sensor malfunctions that have been plaguing iOS since its Sept. 2013 introduction are gone. The accelerometer, which had been reading 2 to 3 degrees off center, is now within normal parameters. This and other changes to Apple device behavior linked to the OS were […]
Oct 16
A few weeks ago we confirmed reports
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Oct 14
Careful how you handle your phone: researchers have been testing out new surveillance techniques, and they think that you could easily be tracked around the web using your phone’s accelerometer.
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Oct 12
Researchers at the Stanford Security Laboratory have discovered a series of security vulnerabilities in the sensor arrays endemic to most smartphones. They found that accelerometers, speakers and microphones can all be uniquely identified with specific devices, functioning the same way cookies do except they cannot currently be turned off. The security vulnerability in accelerometers—the tiny […]
Sep 29
iPhone detects earthquakes: seismologists envision universal detection grid
Posted in: Today's ChiliItalian seismologists Antonino D’Alessandro and Giuseppe D’Anna of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology at Pisa have pinpointed the accuracy of the iPhone accelerometer–the miniscule chip that detects motion, relays the data to the phone’s firmware, and ultimately governs the orientation of the phone’s display–to detect moderate to strong earthquakes when near the quake’s […]
Jul 30
Those nifty Fuelbands and activity trackers can measure pretty much anything you do
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Mar 11
Google’s Project Glass seems like it won’t be the only clothing accessory the company plans to improve through technology as they’ve announced another product called Google Shoes.
Google Shoes won’t become an actual product at this time, instead, Google hacked a pair of Adidas sneakers in order to show its new advertising platform called Art, Copy and Code. The purpose of the product demo was to show “how you can use objects to tell stories on the web today, said Google’s head of its advertising team Aman Govil. (more…)
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Feb 21
Sony preps extra-low power mobile GPS chips, draws on motion sensors for help
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Many of us can vouch for smartphone navigation being something of a battery hog. Sony would like us to navigate relatively guilt-free: its D5600 and flash-equipped D5601 chips chew no more than 10mW of power for everything they do. Most of their peers demand more than that just for the RF side of the equation, Sony says. They also won’t lean on outside help for their location fix. Both chips talk to GPS, GLONASS and similar systems, but they further share the increasingly common ability to use an accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer to get a more reliable position lock. Don’t expect thrifty GPS just yet, when Sony ships the basic D5600 in June and D5601 in September; that doesn’t even include the time spent to build a phone or tablet around either of the new parts. We’ll be patient if they reduce that anxiety over battery life whenever we’re getting directions.
Filed under: Cellphones, GPS, Tablets, Sony
Source: Sony
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