News tagged with accelerometers
Engineering students score a slam dunk (Video)
Feb 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When a 240-pound forward slam dunks a basketball, some fans probably wonder how much force is being generated into the goal. Students at Clemson University now can answer that question with ...
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Samsung unveils new smartphone platform 'bada' to the world
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Samsung Electronics today unveils its new smartphone platform, Samsung bada. At this unveiling, Samsung showcases the bada SDK (Software Development Kit) for partners and presents the unique benefits and unprecedented opportunities ...
Flight of fancy: MIT autonomous mini-helicopter solves one tough challenge
Dec 03, 2009 |
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In its first 18 years, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s annual aerial-robotics competition posed four successive challenges, which robotics researchers had to meet using entirely ...
Engineering professor creates mobile lab for testing bridges
Dec 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Civil engineering students at the University of Rhode Island will soon take to the roadways to apply what they have learned in the classroom in real-world analyses of bridges, buildings and ...
HP Enables Better, Faster Decision Making with Breakthrough Sensing Technology
Nov 05, 2009 |
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HP today announced new inertial sensing technology that enables the development of digital micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) accelerometers that are up to 1,000 times more sensitive than high-volume products currently ...
Researchers Use Cell Phones to Collect Real-Time Data on Substance Use
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scenario: A group of friends are drinking at the local pub, when one gets a cell phone call. He takes it in a quiet corner; nothing unusual. But this isn't a "What's Up" call from a friend: It's a "What-are-you-doing-right-now?" ...
Room's Ambience Fingerprinted By Phone
Sep 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Your smart phone may soon be able to know not only that you're at the mall, but whether you're in the jewelry store or the shoe store.
ESA preparing 'sugar-cube' gyro sensors for future missions
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 09, 2009 |
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One of ESA's future Earth observation missions will monitor its orientation in space with the help of the smallest gyro ever flown by the Agency. Now being tested, the sugar cube-sized device at the heart ...
Study: Being active as a preschooler pays off later in childhood
Jul 28, 2009 |
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Being active at age 5 helps kids stay lean as they age even if they don't remain as active later in childhood, a new University of Iowa study shows.
Writing in air not pie in the sky
Jun 10, 2009 |
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It's a familiar scene in airports and train stations. Hands full with luggage, briefcase, laptop or coat and there's something you need to remember, like the level and row numbers where you parked your car in the deck. What ...
Sporadic play activity as beneficial to child health as continuous bouts of exercise, study suggests
May 11, 2009 |
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New research suggests for the first time that frequent bouts of sporadic activity could be just as beneficial to children's health as longer exercise sessions. A team from the University of Exeter measured the frequency, ...
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