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Slashdot Items Tagged "sensors"

Date / TimeStory
Friday May 24, 2013 @07:19PM African Soil Mapped For the Very First Time
Thursday May 23, 2013 @01:48PM 5-Pound UAV Flies For 50 Minutes, Streams HD From Over 3 Miles
Thursday May 23, 2013 @01:30PM Main US Weather Satellite Fails As Hurricane Season Looms
Saturday May 18, 2013 @10:06AM UK Consumers Reporting Contactless Payment Errors
Friday May 17, 2013 @10:58PM NASA Meteoroid-Spotting Program Captures Brightest-Yet Moon Impact
Friday May 17, 2013 @06:18PM Cell Phones As a Dirty Bomb Detection Network
Friday May 17, 2013 @06:11PM Geologists In Norway Are Using Drones With Cameras To Hunt For Oil
Monday May 13, 2013 @11:35AM Hand-held "Sound Camera" Shows You the Source of Noises
Thursday May 09, 2013 @12:03PM Zoomable World Videos of Satellite Imagery For the Last 29 Years
Wednesday May 08, 2013 @08:24PM 80FFTs Per Second To Detect Whistles (and Switch On Lights)
Monday May 06, 2013 @02:11PM Device Can Extract DNA With Full Genetic Data In Minutes
Sunday May 05, 2013 @09:20AM Observed Atmospheric CO2 Hits 400 Parts Per Million
Friday May 03, 2013 @06:18PM New Device Sniffs Out Black Powder Explosives
Friday April 26, 2013 @12:44PM From 'Quantified Self' To 'Quantified Car'
Friday April 26, 2013 @12:19PM $5 Sensor Turns LCD Monitors Into Touchscreens
Thursday April 25, 2013 @01:31PM Scientists May Have Detected Neutrinos From Another Galaxy
Thursday April 18, 2013 @08:48AM HP To Package Leap Motion Sensor Into — Not Just With — Some Devices
Monday April 15, 2013 @11:27PM What's Next For Smartphone Innovation
Monday April 08, 2013 @08:55PM "Dark Lightning" Could Expose Airline Passengers To Radiation
Monday April 08, 2013 @04:28PM Qt 5.1 Adds Android and iOS Support
Saturday March 30, 2013 @09:22PM New Camera Sensor Filter Allows Twice As Much Light
Tuesday March 26, 2013 @10:23AM PlanetIQ's Plan: Swap US Weather Sats For Private Ones
Monday March 18, 2013 @01:09PM Researcher: Hackers Can Jam Traffic By Manipulating Real-Time Traffic Data
Tuesday March 12, 2013 @08:13AM SpiderSense Suit Delivers Superhuman Perception
Monday March 11, 2013 @02:36AM Global Warming Has Made the North Greener
Thursday March 07, 2013 @12:35PM Kinect Can Detect Clenched Fist
Thursday March 07, 2013 @09:28AM Boeing 787s To Create Half a Terabyte of Data Per Flight
Tuesday March 05, 2013 @09:22AM Canon Shows the Most Sensitive Camera Sensor In the World
Tuesday February 26, 2013 @09:30AM Fingerprint Purchasing Technology Ensures Buyer Has a Pulse
Saturday February 23, 2013 @01:29PM Canon Demos New Head-Mounted Augmented-Reality Display
Thursday February 21, 2013 @02:14PM USPS To Launch Line of Smart Clothing
Tuesday February 19, 2013 @09:44AM Oxford Tests Self-Driving Cars
Thursday February 07, 2013 @09:36AM Startup Uses Radiation Fear To Map Cellphone Coverage
Thursday January 31, 2013 @09:25AM Oil Detection Methods Miss Important Class of Chemicals
Saturday January 26, 2013 @10:51PM Dung Beetles Navigate By the Milky Way; Pigeons Tune In To Magnetism
Saturday January 26, 2013 @07:35PM Glasgow To Be UK's First 'Smart City'
Saturday January 26, 2013 @04:15AM In Brazil, Trees To Call For Help If Illegally Felled
Tuesday January 15, 2013 @09:58AM Smart Ice Cubes Tell When You've Had Enough Alcohol
Friday January 11, 2013 @11:40PM DARPA Wants To Seed the Ocean With Delayed-Action Robot Pods
Friday January 11, 2013 @08:50PM Device Sniffs Out Signs of Life After Disasters
Tuesday January 08, 2013 @01:43PM Curiosity Scrubs a Mars Rock Clean
Tuesday January 08, 2013 @09:36AM Now You Can Control Any Win 8 Kit With Your Eyes
Tuesday January 08, 2013 @09:18AM Researchers Seek to Use Drones For Brushfire Forecasting
Tuesday January 08, 2013 @09:04AM Your iPhone Will Soon Detect Bad Breath
Saturday December 29, 2012 @01:21PM Death Valley Dethrones Impostor As Hottest Place On Earth
Tuesday December 25, 2012 @01:13PM West Antarctica Warming Faster Than Thought
Thursday December 20, 2012 @01:18AM Boeing Uses 20,000 Lbs. of Potatoes To Check Aircraft Wireless Network Signals
Monday December 17, 2012 @03:16AM Austria's Mobile Drug Lab Could Test Street-Drug Effects, Too
Tuesday December 11, 2012 @09:06AM Laser Prototype Improves Bomb Detection
Friday December 07, 2012 @08:59PM Black Boxes In Cars Raise Privacy Concerns
Tuesday December 04, 2012 @09:03AM Vega Older Than Thought: Mature Enough To Nurture Life
Saturday December 01, 2012 @03:32AM First Direct Image of DNA Double Helix
Thursday November 29, 2012 @12:37PM PressureNET 2.1 Released: the Distributed Barometer Network For Android
Thursday November 29, 2012 @09:25AM Seas Rising Faster Than Projected
Friday November 23, 2012 @03:05PM On Demo, a $25 1080p Camera Module For Raspberry Pi
Thursday November 22, 2012 @11:58AM Fetuses Caught Yawning In 4D
Tuesday November 20, 2012 @11:11AM What "Earth-Shaking" Discovery Has Curiosity Made on Mars?
Sunday November 18, 2012 @02:30AM NASA Discovers Most Distant Galaxy In Known Universe
Saturday November 17, 2012 @12:43AM Artificial Muscles Pack a Mean Punch
Thursday November 15, 2012 @10:10AM Fukushima Ocean Radiation Won't Quit
Thursday November 15, 2012 @09:37AM French Company Building a Mobile Internet Just For Things
Tuesday November 13, 2012 @10:06AM Nike+ FuelBand: Possibly a Big Security Hole For Your Life
Tuesday November 13, 2012 @09:28AM Homeland Security Mining Social Media For Signs of Bio Attacks
Tuesday November 06, 2012 @02:01PM Neuromorphic Algorithms Allow MAVs To Avoid Obstacles With Single Camera
Saturday November 03, 2012 @01:11AM Curiosity Snaps 'Arm's Length' Self Portrait
Saturday November 03, 2012 @01:06AM Has the Mars Rover Sniffed Methane?
Friday November 02, 2012 @06:49PM VR Tech Lets People Interact With Rats
Friday November 02, 2012 @08:13AM Ask Slashdot: Digital Pens On Linux?
Thursday November 01, 2012 @08:03AM NASA Teams To Build Gyroscopes 1,000X More Sensitive Than Current Systems
Tuesday October 30, 2012 @12:52PM Using Magnets To Interact With Your Tablet
Friday October 26, 2012 @08:31PM How To Hug a Chicken Via the Internet
Thursday October 25, 2012 @11:04AM Magellan Telescope First Mega-Mirror Polished and Ready
Monday October 22, 2012 @12:34PM Scientists Who Failed to Warn of Quake Found Guilty of Manslaughter
Saturday October 20, 2012 @11:42AM Craig Venter Wants To Rebuild Martian Life In Earth Lab
Saturday October 20, 2012 @01:19AM Scientists Match Dream Images To Photos
Thursday October 18, 2012 @08:22AM Sony Files Patent For Temperature Feedback Move Controller
Thursday October 18, 2012 @12:41AM Explosive Detecting Devices Face Off With Bomb Dogs
Thursday October 18, 2012 @12:40AM How Hair Can be Used To Track Where You've Been
Thursday October 18, 2012 @12:40AM Man Finds Roman Gold Coin Hoard Worth £100,000 With Metal Detector
Tuesday October 16, 2012 @08:39AM Cancer-Detecting Bra Could One Day Surpass Mammograms In Accuracy
Saturday October 06, 2012 @07:04PM Nokia Keeps Quietly Mapping The World
Saturday October 06, 2012 @06:46PM Adam Dunkels On the Internet of Things
Friday October 05, 2012 @10:07PM Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder Goes Live
Thursday October 04, 2012 @08:35AM Giving Your Computer Interface the Finger
Thursday October 04, 2012 @08:35AM Quantum Measurements Leave Schrödinger's Cat Alive
Tuesday October 02, 2012 @08:39AM Supreme Court Won't Hear Body-Scanner Appeal
Monday October 01, 2012 @02:13AM ForestWatchers Lets Anyone Monitor A Patch of Forest
Sunday September 30, 2012 @01:59PM African Robotics Network Challenge Spurs Rash of $10 Robots
Friday September 28, 2012 @08:19PM United States Navy Names Ship After Neil Armstrong
Wednesday September 26, 2012 @05:31PM Suitable Technology's Telepresence Robot Lets You Roll Remotely
Wednesday September 26, 2012 @01:39PM Google Captures 'Street View' of Underwater Habitats
Tuesday September 25, 2012 @09:42AM Curiosity Rover Being Upgraded With Autonomous Sensor Program
Monday September 24, 2012 @04:40PM Cheap, Portable Ultrasound Could a Be Lifesaver .
Saturday September 22, 2012 @07:02PM Australian Smart Meter Data Shared Far and Wide
Friday September 21, 2012 @07:34PM All Over But the Funding: Open Hardware Spectrometer Kit
Thursday September 20, 2012 @02:47PM No Smiles At NJ Motor Vehicle Commission
Wednesday September 19, 2012 @01:08PM DARPA Unveils System Using Human Brains For Computer Vision
Tuesday September 18, 2012 @08:26AM How Sensors and Software Turn Farms Into Data Mines
Monday September 17, 2012 @03:05PM Microsoft Patents Whacking Your Phone To Silence It
Thursday September 13, 2012 @11:19AM George Albercook Teaches Kids About Space with High-Altitude Balloons (Video)
Friday September 07, 2012 @07:27PM Mt. Fuji May Be Close To Erupting
Thursday September 06, 2012 @08:31AM Networked Cars: Good For Safety, Bad For Privacy
Thursday September 06, 2012 @08:09AM 'Magic Carpet' Could Help Prevent Falls Among the Elderly
Tuesday September 04, 2012 @09:55AM US Army To Train Rats To Save Soldiers' Lives
Sunday September 02, 2012 @07:55PM Twitter Based "Ted" System Warns of Earthquakes Earlier
Friday August 31, 2012 @04:17PM Bionic Eye Lets Blind Woman Experience Vision
Thursday August 30, 2012 @09:23AM NASA Launches Twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes
Thursday August 30, 2012 @08:29AM Wave Glider Robot Helps Forecast Hurricane Isaac's Path
Thursday August 30, 2012 @08:17AM Harvard Creates Cyborg Tissues
Thursday August 30, 2012 @08:15AM "Real-life Tricorder" To Be Tested On International Space Station
Sunday August 26, 2012 @06:56PM Arctic Sea Ice Hits Record Low Extent
Sunday August 26, 2012 @03:13AM StethoCloud Project Diagnoses Pneumonia On the Cheap
Tuesday August 21, 2012 @09:30AM Mirrors Finished For James Webb Space Telescope
Thursday August 16, 2012 @08:24AM Advance Warning System For Solar Flares Hinges On Surprising Hypothesis
Tuesday August 14, 2012 @12:12PM Monitoring Weapons Bans With Social Media
Thursday August 09, 2012 @07:13AM Store Offers Kinect Body Scanner To Help You Find Jeans That Fit
Sunday July 22, 2012 @12:51PM Subcontractor Tells Fukushima Workers To Hide Radiation Exposure
Tuesday July 17, 2012 @08:45AM Man Physically Assaulted At McDonald's For Wearing Digital Eye Glasses
Friday July 13, 2012 @07:12PM Niagra Framework Leaves Government, Private Infrastructure Open To Hacks
Thursday July 12, 2012 @03:43PM Live Pictures From Inside Your Stomach
Thursday July 12, 2012 @10:37AM Apple Hacker Charlie Miller To Demo Dangers of Near-Field Communications
Tuesday July 10, 2012 @11:47AM South Pole Neutron Detectors Given New Role in Predicting Space Weather
Tuesday July 10, 2012 @08:22AM UCLA Develops World's Fastest Camera To Hunt Down Cancer In Real Time
Saturday July 07, 2012 @06:49PM fMRI Lets Israeli Student Control Robot In France With His Mind
Friday July 06, 2012 @05:52PM Software-Defined Radio: the Apple I of Broadcast?
Tuesday July 03, 2012 @10:37AM US Navy's High-Resolution Radar Can See Individual Raindrops In a Storm
Friday June 15, 2012 @07:57PM Fly Your Own Experiment In Space
Saturday June 02, 2012 @09:29PM NASA Tool Shows Where Forest Is Being Cut Down
Tuesday May 08, 2012 @08:22AM Microsoft Creates Kinect-Like System Using Laptop Speaker & Microphone
Tuesday May 01, 2012 @09:26AM Discovery Channel Crashes a Boeing 727 For Science Documentary
Tuesday April 24, 2012 @07:47AM Proof-of-Concept Android Trojan Uses Motion Sensors To Steal Passwords
Tuesday April 10, 2012 @12:29PM Dental X-Rays Linked To Common Brain Tumor
Tuesday April 10, 2012 @08:25AM Company Designs "Big Brother Chip"
Tuesday April 10, 2012 @08:18AM New Tech Makes Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Verifiable
Sunday April 08, 2012 @10:44PM Photoacoustic Imaging Uses Sight, Sound For Cancer Detection
Friday March 30, 2012 @11:07PM Wind Map of US Will Blow You Away
Friday March 30, 2012 @11:04PM JAXA Creates Camera That Can See Radiation
Thursday March 29, 2012 @05:05PM Ask Slashdot: Home Testing For Solar Roof Coverage?
Thursday March 29, 2012 @08:25AM Researchers Create Living Human Gut-On-a-Chip
Tuesday March 13, 2012 @01:45AM Algorithm Brings Speedier, Safer CT Scans
Saturday March 10, 2012 @07:38PM Reinventing the Clapper With a Knock-Based Home Automation Controller
Tuesday March 06, 2012 @11:49AM Magnetic Levitation Detects Proteins, Could Diagnose Disease
Thursday February 16, 2012 @05:29PM US Seismologist Testifies Against Scientists In Quake-Prediction Case
Thursday February 16, 2012 @09:00AM Brain Implants Can Detect What Patients Hear
Tuesday February 14, 2012 @09:15AM Laser Scanner May Allow Passengers To Take Bottled Drinks On Planes Again
Sunday February 12, 2012 @01:49AM Texas Supercomputer Upgrading the Hurricane Forecast
Saturday February 11, 2012 @11:35AM San Francisco Enlists Bus Cameras For Traffic Law Enforcement
Friday February 10, 2012 @06:32PM Smart Camera Tells Tobacco From Marijuana
Thursday February 09, 2012 @03:25PM Virtual Reality Helmet Designed For Deep Space Surgery
Thursday February 09, 2012 @09:10AM TomTom Satnavs To Set Insurance Prices
Tuesday February 07, 2012 @09:35AM The Engineer Who Stopped Airplanes From Flying Into Mountains
Tuesday February 07, 2012 @09:22AM Air Guns Shake Up Earthquake Monitoring
Tuesday February 07, 2012 @09:14AM Indian Engineers Modify Kinect To Help the Blind Walk With Confidence
Thursday February 02, 2012 @09:45AM SmartCap Reads Brain Waves to Monitor Workers' Fatigue Levels
Thursday February 02, 2012 @09:44AM Self-Guided Bullet Can Hit Targets a Mile Away
Wednesday February 01, 2012 @04:15PM Computer Program Reconstructs Heard Words From Brain Scans
Wednesday February 01, 2012 @02:41PM Microsoft Releases Kinect For Windows
Sunday January 29, 2012 @07:56PM Ask Slashdot: Wireless Proximity Detection?
Saturday January 28, 2012 @07:19PM Some Windows 8 Laptops May Come With Built-In Kinect Sensors
Friday January 27, 2012 @07:29PM Mars-Bound Probe Serves As Radiation Guinea Pig
Thursday January 26, 2012 @11:18AM NASA Releases New High-Definition Image of Earth
Tuesday January 24, 2012 @09:26AM Nano-Scale Terahertz Antenna May Make Tricorders Real
Friday January 20, 2012 @08:42PM NYPD Developing Portable Body Scanner For Detecting Guns
Tuesday January 17, 2012 @10:59AM MRI Powered Pill-Sized Robot Swims Through Intestines
Friday January 13, 2012 @07:28PM Nanosensors Could Help Reduce Laboratory Animal Testing
Saturday January 07, 2012 @10:58PM China To Begin Submitting Air Pollution Reports
Friday January 06, 2012 @07:21PM A Whale's Virtual Reality
Wednesday January 04, 2012 @02:28PM Medical Imaging With a Hacked LCD Projector
Saturday December 31, 2011 @09:23PM GRAIL-A Enters Lunar Orbit
Wednesday November 16, 2011 @05:18PM TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-ray Body Scanners
Tuesday November 01, 2011 @07:50AM Paper-Based Explosives Sensor Made Using an Inkjet
Thursday October 27, 2011 @01:57AM Sensor Enables 3D Mapping of Rainforests
Thursday June 30, 2011 @04:14PM Future Actions Predicted From Brain Activity
Thursday June 09, 2011 @01:29PM Personal Electronics May Indeed Disrupt Avionics
Monday May 30, 2011 @07:49PM Mandatory Automotive Black Boxes May Be On the Way
Monday May 30, 2011 @12:34AM US Nuclear Power Enters the Digital Age
Friday May 27, 2011 @06:41PM Flight 447 'Black Box' Decoded
Thursday May 26, 2011 @01:46PM "Space Archeology" Uncovers Lost Pyramids
Friday May 20, 2011 @05:56PM Space Station Becomes Dark Matter Hunter
Wednesday May 18, 2011 @06:30PM Local Atmosphere Heated Rapidly Before Japan Quake
Tuesday May 17, 2011 @05:54PM Fingerprint Scanner That Works From 6 Feet
Friday May 13, 2011 @06:11PM Invent the Medical Tricorder, Win $10,000,000
Thursday May 12, 2011 @01:46PM Glove Emulates Musical Instruments
Tuesday May 10, 2011 @08:09PM Creating a "Force Field" Invisible Touch Interface
Saturday April 30, 2011 @08:36AM NASA Satellite Shows Southern Tornadoes From Space
Saturday April 02, 2011 @11:01PM Earth's Gravitational Shape In Detail
Saturday April 02, 2011 @02:43PM Sony CEO Lets Slip That iPhone 5 Will Have 8MP Camera
Thursday March 24, 2011 @03:30PM Crowd-Sourced Radiation Maps In Asia and US
Saturday March 19, 2011 @07:48PM Japan Reluctant To Disclose Drone Footage of Fukushima Plant
Saturday March 19, 2011 @03:44PM Postal Sensor Fleet Idea Gets Tentative Nod From the USPS
Friday March 18, 2011 @02:07PM US Military Deploys Personal Gunshot Detectors
Saturday March 12, 2011 @08:12AM Tsunami Warnings Now Faster, More Accurate
Sunday March 06, 2011 @09:23PM SurfSens Brings Surfing Into the Computer Age
Thursday February 24, 2011 @03:27PM Researchers Create Computer That Fits On a Pen Tip
Tuesday January 04, 2011 @07:59PM Radiation Detection Goes Digital
Tuesday January 04, 2011 @07:58PM French Use Space Tech To Find Parking Spots
Sunday December 19, 2010 @06:16PM A Blue-Sky Idea For the USPS — Postal Trucks As Sensors
Monday November 29, 2010 @02:46PM Which Shipping Company Is Kindest To Your Packages?
Thursday November 25, 2010 @09:43PM Thought-Controlled Apps On Android May Not Be Far
Thursday November 11, 2010 @12:22PM Microsoft Patents Foot Computing

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