sensors
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New Graphene Camera Sensors Are 1000 Times More Sensitive To Light
Not content to just turn paint into a power source, revolutionise headphones, suck pollution out of oceans, bestow us with hyper-fast upload times and pretty much anything else you can dream up, graphene is at it once again. The supermaterial that keeps on giving is opening the door to better low-light photos in the form…
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Electronic Sensor Tattoos Can Now Be Printed Directly Onto Human Skin
Thanks to the same people that brought us the stick-on electric tattoo and stretchable battery, we’re now looking at a future of electronic sensors that can be printed directly onto human skin.
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Panasonic’s New Sensor Captures 3D Images With A Single Lens
Using similar techniques that enable the Nintendo 3DS to display 3D images without the need for special glasses, Panasonic has developed a new image sensor that can capture 3D stills and videos without the need for multiple lenses.
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RFID Parcel Sensor Knows If Your Delivery Has Been Dropped
When I was a Christmas postman, many years ago, some of the bored guys in the sorting office’s loading bay liked to play a boisterous game of “catch” when parcels marked “video recorder” and “fragile” arrived. How they guffawed when one landed in the bottom of a skip with a sickening crunch, ruining somebody’s Christmas.