Also known as inertial sensors, accelerometers are critical elements in key applications such as automotive air-bag deployment, smartphone motion tracking, and industrial predictive maintenance. These ...

Norwood, Mass. — Analog Devices, Inc. today announced the availability of the ADXL330, the industry's lowest power 3-axis accelerometer for a wide assortment of portable consumer devices with small ...

ADI’s ADXL375 200-g digital MEMS accelerometer delivers more than twice the bandwidth at less than half the power consumption of competing sensors used to measure high-g events. NORWOOD, ...

NORWOOD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 31, 2005--Analog Devices, Inc. (NYSE: ADI), innovating in MEMS technology for over a decade, today added a 3-axis accelerometer to its iMEMS(R) family of motion ...

The team from the Sensing, Interaction & Perception Lab at ETH Zürich, Switzerland have come up with TapType, an interesting text input method that relies purely on a pair of wrist-worn devices, that ...

How do piezoelectric accelerometers — vibration sensors — work? The force caused by vibration or a change in motion (acceleration) causes the sensor's mass to “squeeze” contained piezoelectric ...

Wearable accelerometer measures of daytime activity and sleep behaviors may enhance dementia risk prediction models in older adults.

That's a higher sensitivity than all accelerometers now on the market with similar size and bandwidth. With further improvements, the NIST optomechanical accelerometer could be used as a portable, ...

A tiny 3-axis MEMS accelerometer, the LIS2DTW12 from STMicroelectronics embeds a temperature sensor that boasts typical accuracy of 0.8°C. The device’s thin 2×2×0.7-mm LGA-12 plastic package allows it ...

Japanese researchers have developed and tested a prototype device—wearable on the fingertips—that incorporates the concept of 'light touch' to enhance the sense of balance. If widely implemented, the ...

You're going at the speed limit down a two-lane road when a car barrels out of a driveway on your right. You slam on the brakes, and within a fraction of a second of the impact an airbag inflates, ...