The traveling success of those floating dandelion seeds inspired engineers at the University of Washington to design a new ultra-light sensor. It’s solar powered and weighs just 30 milligrams. The ...

Smartphone-equipped floating robots transmit water data in real-time. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley are creating a new kind of floating water sensor that uses GPS-equipped ...

The sensor monitors for seismic activity and tremors. ... bringing the house back to the ground. "A floating house that is not in contact with the ground will not shake," Air Danshin ...

The agency starts field testing the ground sensor this summer, and it's already contemplating air- and sea-based ADAPT designs. Catch an example of DARPA's airborne sensor experiments after the break.

The HC11 does nothing except display M on the LCD. When becomes low, the last measurement latches in a shift register inside the sensor. The HC11 deletes M from the display, reads the switch and the ...

After spending a couple of years and a couple of million dollars, researchers and graduate students released intelligent water sensors into the Sacramento River on Wednesday.

Finally, researchers and graduate students who have spent years developing intelligent water sensors released them into the Sacramento River on Wednesday, about 80 miles east of San Francisco. Topics ...