sensors
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Wireless Sensor Syncs A Hot Pot With An Induction Cooktop
Induction cooktops can rapidly, powerfully heat a skillet. If you don’t stare at your stove, you can easily burn food to a crisp. A new induction cooktop adds greater control to the operation with preset cooking modes and a wireless sensor that monitors the cookware’s temperature.
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New Camera Sensor Captures Images And Depth Data At The Same Time
Samsung has developed what they’re touting as the world’s first sensor that can capture both an RGB and range (or depth) image at the same time, granting Kinect-like gesture recognition capabilities to a host of devices.
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Implantable Sensors Will Monitor Mending Bones
As your shattered femur recovers from that horrendous planking injury and subsequent orthopedic surgery, doctors usually need to take numerous x-rays to monitor the healing process. That is, unless the surgeons implant a tiny diagnostic sensor alongside the various metal bits in your leg.
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What Kinect For SNES Might Have Looked Like
Technically, we use muscles all the time to control games (and express our anger at them, if you’re the gamepad-throwing type), but when’s the last time you strapped sensors to your pythons and fist-clenched Mario into stomping goombas? Probably never, unless you’re one of the soldering wizards at Advancer Technologies.