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 ...

A gliding sensor inspired by Javan cucumber seeds could be used for environmental monitoring, and then quickly biodegrade, leaving no waste behind. Ecologists routinely use sensors to collect data ...

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 ...

The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT, President Kim Byung-suk) developed a smart sensor that detects signs of ground or structure collapses and a real-time remote ...