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photography

Phase One P65+ is First Full-Frame Medium Format Photo Sensor, Packs a Gaudy 65 Megapixels

Last week Hasselblad was holding down the largest-sensor-available title with its 50MP H3DII-50, but now Phase One's P65+ digital back matches the size of a standard piece of 645 film at 40.4 X 54.9mm—a first for digital sensors—for a final resolution of 65 megapixels. But if you're guessing it'll cost you, you guessed right. More »

10:03 AM on Mon Jul 14 2008
By John Mahoney
6,335 views, 23 comments

Latest by james-42: @Dook_In_The_Urinal: Especially one that's not very good, but very expensive. more »

iphone 3g

Patent Shows Apple Researching Advanced iPhone Sensor Use, iChat Integration

Over at Mac Rumors they've unearthed a recent patent that shows Apple is researching cleverer use of the iPhone's many sensors. More nifty than turning the screen off when you put it to your ear, the new uses may include things like working out it's in your pocket (by temperature, proximity and ambient light) and then auto-switching to vibrate mode. Intriguingly, there's a hint that by detecting you've docked the phone, it may pass an ongoing phone call to a VoIP call over iChat. This all makes sense: making best use of those sensors and the iPhone's power... but like all Apple patents, we may never see these ideas in a real-life software update. [MacRumors]

9:53 AM on Thu Jun 19 2008
By Kit Eaton
5,757 views, 32 comments

Latest by justinpe: @draconis1492: You're right about that. There are certainly limitations. Another one is having to go through and add a separate phone#/email address for everyone you want to send an MMS to in your address book. But free makes it worth it. more »

nokia n95

NeuScreen is a Nokia N95 'Multitouch' Screen Engine Project

Sittiphol Phanvilai, a developer on the Nokia forums, managed to rig up a "multitouch" engine using the N95. With the camera, an IR filter on the back, a light pen and a TV, he cobbles together a system that allows drawing. Since this is only one pen, it's not exactly multitouch, but it is a start that shows what the N95 can do with the proper input systems. Does it means the N95 will get a multitouch screen some time in the future? Probably not. [Nokia Blogs]

1:50 PM on Fri Jun 13 2008
By Jason Chen
2,274 views, 21 comments

Latest by n/a: @jimbowyer Sorry, I wasn't born yet during the war. more »

Wall Racers

Wall Cars Will Race Automagically for Eternity

This is what happens when you get a couple of cheap RC cars and add proximity sensors, extra batteries, robot brains, and name them Steve McQueen and Burt Reynolds: totally-automated racing all around your house. These electric robocars can detect the walls around them and race against each other for as long as the batteries last. The resulting Tron-lightcycle-like action is impressive. More »

7:51 AM on Thu Jun 12 2008
By Jesus Diaz
14,066 views, 51 comments

Latest by n/a: The project inspired me, so I started to build my own wall racers (see below) Unfortunately, when I contacted the creator of "Wall Racers" he wanted $25 to see the Picaxe source code. I was a little disheartened, since letsmakerobots.com masquerades more »

nike+

Nike+iPod Patent Shows Heart Rate, Temperature and Hydration Monitors

The main complaints about the current Nike+ Gear aren't that it doesn't do a good job keeping track of how far you run, it's that it doesn't measure stuff like heart rate, body temperature and other factors runners care about. Nike hears you. Their latest patent for upcoming Nike+ gear expands on the current concept and features all kinds of sensors over a person's body, even possibly adding a GPS receiver so you can automatically map out the path you took on your run. More »

4:30 PM on Sun Apr 27 2008
By Jason Chen
4,857 views, 7 comments

Latest by themediaguy: there's a site that integrates your ipod and running stats . its called www.runnerplus.com i'm a member there more »

digital cameras

Your Digital Camera Is Obsolete: Japanese Image Sensor 100x More Sensitive Than Current Chips

Right now, your camera either has a CCD (most point and shoots) or a CMOS image sensor (lots of DSLRs) inside, which converts pretty pictures into an electrical signal. Japan's Research Center for Photovoltaics has developed a CIGS image sensor that's 100 times more light-sensitive than the silicon chip inside your cam. It's able to shoot in environments as dark as 0.001 lux, or about as dark as a "moonless clear night." Obviously, it'll be great for night vision gear, but it also picks up infrared, giving this some serious Sam Fisher applications. Check out the comparison shot between a CMOS and CIGS below, it's insane. Chen won't need that invisible coat, just a good zoom lens. More »

5:00 PM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By matt buchanan
23,874 views, 41 comments

Latest by LittleJon: @fyngyrz: Yes, the noise is a big factor in how low a light level a sensor can operate down to, but the latest, best CMOS sensors have read noise figures of little over two electrons! So say you've got a QE more »

air drums

Silverlit V-Beat Air Drums—Motion-Sensor Sticks for Schmucks

Silverlit, purveyors of remote-controlled things that fly, have come up trumps with their V-Beat Air Drums. Containing motion sensors (but, sadly, no neon tips like you see in the picture) they are the beans to the toast that is the V-Beat air guitar. Plug your iPod into the control box and drum along to whatever you fancy. There's even some kind of pedal thingy that lets you drum with your feet, although the protruding wires made me think "shoe bomb." Video of the $60 friend-isolator after the jump. More »

6:31 AM on Thu Mar 6 2008
By AddyDugdale
2,525 views, 3 comments

Latest by stuntmanmike: Meh. We had these when I was a kid in the 80's. They were called Hit Stix and they one-upped this modern re-incarnation: they included an amp. An amp you strapped onto your belt. Take that, "V-Beat Air Drums"! more »

cameraphones

STMicroelectronics Camera Sensor is 1/5 Inch, Smallest Available

STMicroelectronics new VD6725 single-chip camera sensor is so small, it could theoretically fit in a cameraphone module as small as .2"x.2".15". The sensor is two megapixels and is capable of shooting VGA video at 30 fps or UXGA video at 15 fps. Kodak's new CMOS sensor may be small for a 5-megapixel array, but STMicroelectronics' is just small. [PR Newswire via MobileWhack]

4:30 PM on Sat Feb 9 2008
By Adrian Covert
2,007 views, 10 comments

smart fabric

Intelligent Bra to Give Ladies Less Bounce to the Ounce

University researchers have invented a smart fabric that could help larger ladies in the fight against breast bounce—disappointing the legions of men who love watching girls run for buses in the process. The material, which contains tiny sensors, will be used by bra manufacturers in an attempt to improve the lot of the big-boobed who find even the slightest exertion a pain in the chest. More info (and slightly NSFW illustration) after the jump. More »

8:45 AM on Mon Dec 10 2007
By AddyDugdale
27,253 views, 39 comments

Latest by n/a: LB's are CHEAP compared to the ones they DON'T carry. I have been a 32DD, a 32E, a 34DD, a 34E, a 36DDD and a 36 all the way up to I (yes, I). The variations have mainly to do more »

robots

Intel's Robot Arms Look With Their Eyes, Not With Their Hands

The problem with robot claws and hands is that they really don't know how hard to grip an object unless they're either pre-programmed or they test out the hardness themselves. The latter isn't a great idea if the object is, say, your arm, so Intel's invented a process to scan the object beforehand with sensors to determine its conductive properties. This in turns lets arms estimate how tough an item is before coming in contact with it, which is great news for the development of sexy robot mistresses that won't crush your junk. [Technology Review via The Raw Feed]

4:00 PM on Mon Sep 17 2007
By Jason Chen
1,750 views, 9 comments

Latest by SomeoneUKno: @skierpage: If it was running Vista recognition, the above wouldn't even all be needed. All you would have to say is "Start Listening". more »

hard drives

New Hard Drive Sensors to Increase Density 5x, Read Times By 10x

Physics researchers are hard at work making sure you can store those episodes of House on your hard drive for as long as possible without deleting them with a new breakthrough using the magneto-electric effect. Drives can possibly have a storage density of 1 terabit per square inch (up from 200 gigabits now), and a read time of 10GHz compared to say, 1GHz. It's all very dry and physics-y, but the bottom line is that you won't be seeing this in your hard drives for quite a few years yet, so either say goodbye to Hugh Laurie or start burning stuff to DVD. [Technology Review]

4:00 PM on Wed Sep 12 2007
By Jason Chen
2,306 views, 14 comments

Latest by darsal: The disk in that photo is one of 50 that went into an IBM RAMAC. Total capacity was about 5 MB, so one of the 24 inch platters could hold about 100KB. I don't know if they were ever sold more »

Sony Builds a 12.47MP DSLR CMOS Sensor Sony's new IMX021 CMOS sensor is good for 12.47MP and 10.39FPS. People are comparing it to Canon's new EOS-1D Mark III. Enough with the pissing match. I'd take half the megapixels and 12800 ISO, frankly. [digitalcamerainfo]

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gadgets

Microstrain Sensors Measures Fatigue in Both Machines and Your Busted Knees

A small company in Vermont called Microstrain has developed a wireless sensor system that can monitor strain and fatigue in various hardware components, such as large trucks all the way down to welding joints, accurate to millionths of a meter.
This is like a nervous system ... By predicting when welds may fail based upon actual severity of usage, our customers are able to streamline the maintenance requirements for each machine."
Recently, new developments have allowed the technology to be implanted in humans for wireless monitoring of even more important components—our joints.
More »

7:19 AM on Fri Feb 23 2007
By www.gizmodo.com
1,593 views, 3 comments

Latest by soundengineer: My mother claims that I'm "too young to have joint problems", but hell I think I need one of those...maybe it'd tell me when to stop moving because i'm over-straining my joints... more »

variable acuity superpixel technology

Military Camera Sees Bullets in Slow Motion

It may sound like something from a sci-fi movie, but the military has gotten its hands on a camera that can see in bullet time. Developed by Nova Sensors, the high-speed camera can follow bullets midflight by mimicking the fovea part of the human eye (that's the part that takes care of sharp, central vision). We've even got video of the camera in action... More »

12:50 PM on Thu Feb 8 2007
By Louis Ramirez
1,073 views, 6 comments

gadgets

High-Tech Carpet Knows You are Fat, Old

Those crazy Japanese researchers and designers are at it again. They have developed a carpet that contains a layer of electrodes that can accurately measure electrical flow resistance and guess facts about the person walking on it, including age, height, weight, gender and even shoe size. Hit the jump for a bit more. More »

11:41 AM on Fri Jul 28 2006
By Travis Hudson
258 views, 5 comments

portable media

Latest iPod Patent: Proximity Detection


Apple filed for a patent back on September 30, 2005, but it just now got published. Their latest patent relates to the original iPod touchscreen patent that we documented back in February. This patent is a proximity detector that will sense when an object, commonly a finger, is getting close to the iPod screen. This feature could be useful because the iPod would be able to sense when a finger is getting close to the screen and display a virtual scroll wheel before any contact is made. Hit the linkage for more figures and full, somewhat complicated, description. – Travis Hudson More »

10:26 AM on Fri Jul 21 2006
By Travis Hudson
595 views, 8 comments

Latest by SuppleMonkey: Apple's just tired of whiny bitches complaining about their "scwatched iPod scweens". more »

gadgets

SensaTronics EM 1

We saw this yesterday at the suck-tacular C3 Expo here in New York and were pretty impressed. I'm sure the IT geeks out there already know all about this thing, but the EM 1 is an environmental sensor with its own Ethernet interface. You plug it into your network and it sense humidity and temperature as well as water levels and magnet relays. You can monitor four locations with each $600 box. More »

5:28 PM on Thu Jun 29 2006
By johnb
185 views, 4 comments

gadgets

Not Barking, Drowning

So cute! Little Rover gets his own website full of crap dedicated to now letting him drown in the wading pool! PetGadgets.com has a Pool Alarm that notifies you when Old Yeller has succumbed to the hydrophoby and decides to go for a mad-eyed swim. More »

3:46 PM on Tue May 30 2006
By johnb
105 views, 10 comments

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