Sensors

Thanks to Apple and its iPhone, touchscreen devices are getting more and more popular. However, it can be said to mobile devices only, because touchscreen enabled laptops or monitors are not so widely spread. In the most cases they are way more expensive than usual ones; majority of consumers will not pay that difference unless they really need touchscreen to work. It's a pity, because touchscreen is a very fun thing to play with, it gives whole new impressions from interacting with computer. But what if user already has a laptop or monitor, and doesn't need a new one, but wants to try all the features touchscreen brings? External touchscreens are very dependent on your screen size, and sometimes are not so easy to install. Don't panic! New Korean gadget can do all the hard work for you - just put it on top of your monitor and you will be able to work with it like it has a touchscreen.

t doesn't really look like an alarm clock it looks like a small smart robot with a whole bunch of sensors onboard. Here are some of the 41 modes that RoboBoa can be used in:-Aware Mode (default)This is the mode that makes RoboBoa respond to all the objects he sees.

his stylish door mat gadget has a motion sensor that can detect humans that are near.It has funny green animated invaders that begin to dance, informing a stranger is on the mat.

However, something that thought to be impossible before, now is one step closer from being real - Stanford University engineers have made a lens system capable of capturing the distance of subjects within a snapshot!The whole system works differently from usual sensors work. Instead of having one lens for a whole sensor, it captures image in parts.

his digital photo frame also has SD card slot, USB port and light sensor, which controls backlight and adjusts it to make photos on display look beautiful any time.One disappointing feature of this interesting gadget is price for MMS, in some countries multimedia messages are not so cheap, and MMS are limited to 300 kb.

Hackers have created a Wii IR Remote sensor that works with Xbox 360 taking such games as Halo and Call of Duty to a new level. This hack will turn your console and your favorite game into a full fledged killing simulator that will be so much fun to play.

Instead of using more pixels he used sensors with more area per pixel and that what made the camera so good. The camera works at minimum 60 fps and has a great tracking resolution.

he gadget itself represents a tube with 2 components: a sensor at the tip of a probe and a digital circuit housed in a pod. The sensor starts measuring the electrical resistance of the environment every second when you place it in the soil, with lower resistance indicating higher levels of moisture.

The risk of Caesarean section being performed while the birth of a child is becoming more and more obvious. Today we reach some immense numbers of overall 30 percents cases in the United States of America, when doctors and near future parents decide on a C-section. As the matter of fact, many of them, approximately a half of mothers didn't need one. Caesarean section is necessary only when a number of complexifications are faced. Otherwise it provides unjustified risk on mother's health and on health of her child. To give a clearer word whether C-section is necessary in every particular case, a group of researchers from University of Florida in Gainesville have recently came up with an interesting gadget.

I cannot say that my breath is perfect but I think it does not smell bad. However when going to a disco or a party I have to be sure of that. I know some ways to check your breath.

One of them is to lick the backside of your hand and then smell it in several minutes. This way you will find out if your breath does smell bad. When I go to the party, I always take my breath tester with me. This gadget checks my breath very quick.

Just put it on, and with built-in sensors it can digitalize any note you make on the paper. Every text or illustration written is shown on the LCD screen, and then stored within.

When these batteries are fully charged, the i-sobot will run 60 minutes under normal operation.He is based on built-in Gyro sensor, a built-in speaker unit and microphone along with a voice recognition chip.

This T-shirt has several sensors built in and it will be able to send information about your health to a computer or special receivers that will read the data and show you the information. This gadget will use the new ZigBee wireless technology to send data to the computer.

he LED alert light sensor of it comes on only in darkened conditions. Two replaceable lithium batteries are included in each slipper.

And last, but not least – leg sensors, which are to prevent anything getting caught during leg movement. Inventors thought about almost everything possible situation, didn't they? I think that it would be a good purchase not only for Star Wars fans, but for technology freaks and for those who likes to see that beautiful expression of ultimate amazement on their guest’s faces.

The glass is based on a volume sensor, and as your beer volume falls down you will hear the words “Your beer is running dangerously low”, “Refill immediately –danger of sobering out” and after all “Cheers”.So don’t ever let your friend and yourself miss the last minutes of the game, while looking for another bottle beer in your fridge, buy the magical talking beer glass

Most of the security systems are bulky and the motion sensors is all they have got. The ones that use cameras cost very much and you have to install it wire it etc.

It has a magnetic field sensor that is situated on the top and has a microprocessor and all the needed electronics to calculate the distance between the photo and the frame. The photos will always be in place no matter what happens because the magnetic field is automatically changed to not let it fall.

.. the mouse and phone features.3. The thing I like about the mouse part is the resolution of optical sensor. It is 1000 DPI which is pretty good for a mouse and especially a mouse like this. 4. The thing I l ..

This is not it; this wonderful rear-view mirror has a bumper sensor that detects the distance between your bumper and any object. If you get too close to something, an alarm signal will sound in your car.