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Power-Efficient Touch Sensors Reduce Component Count and Cost

Atmel has released a family of QTouch touch sensing devices for button, slider and wheel (BSW) capability on customized devices.

28 Feb 2011

Smart Pressure Sensors to Monitor Wellbeing of Senior Citizens

Flexpoint Sensor Systems has received a further order for Bend Sensors from Card Access to be deployed in their smart pressure sensors.

28 Feb 2011

Stretchable Touch Sensors to Create Artificial Skin

Zhenan Bao, a research scholar at Stanford University, in an endeavor to create artificial super skin, has designed a tactile sensor that is sensitive to even the feather touch of a fly.

28 Feb 2011

Pressure Sensors in Tires for Harsh Mining Industries

UK-based company Translogik is collaborating with the Latin American OTR and Mining Tire manufacturers Duratread to unveil the OTR iTrack Asset Management System across Latin America.

24 Feb 2011

Implanted Pressure Sensor to Monitor Glaucoma

Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed two sensing devices.

24 Feb 2011

Pressure Sensor to Record Blood Pressure

Researchers at the University of Leicester and scientists in Singapore have jointly created a sensor that can be attached to the wrist of a patient to determine and monitor the blood pressure of the central aortic systolic pressure or CASP that is near the heart and brain.

24 Feb 2011

QinetiQ Inks MoU With Saudi Arabia on Sensors, Robotics

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between QinetiQ and the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in Saudi Arabia to collaborate on a range of research and technology development programmes which could include autonomy, robotics, sensors, communications and remote sensing.

21 Feb 2011