sensors
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New Nanosensor Sniffs Bombs, One Molecule At A Time
Imagine a piece of metal 30,000 times thinner than one of the hairs on your head. Mixed with a little protein from bee venom, that microscopic filament becomes the most powerful explosives-detection system in history, able to detect a single molecule of dangerous chemicals.
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Size Isn’t Everything: White iPhone 4 Has Modified Innards, Too
So the white iPhone 4 is a bit bigger in the trunk than its black-encased brother. No big deal, really, unless you’re trying to swap cases between the two. Inside, however, we’re learning there’s even more to this peculiar story.
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World’s Smallest Vein Sensor For Secure Access To Laptops
Instead of scanning fingerprints to determine a person is who they say they are (unless they’re holding someone’s dismembered finger, naturally), Fujitsu’s vein sensor does the job… only in a much smaller device, measuring just 29mm wide, 11.2mm tall and 29mm thick.
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The Shirt That Makes You Look Kinda Look Like Ironman
Sensors in a t-shirt – now there’s a novel idea. The ‘Under Armour E39 compression shirt’ is made from a mix of regular nylon and elastacine, which dosn’t sound very cool, until you attach the removable sensor pack to the t-shirt, which screams ‘I am a massive geek!’.