Scientists from renowned institutions in Germany have successfully created a microelectromechanical sensor inspired by the cochlea, a hollow, spiral-shaped bone found in the inner ear, TechXplore ...

New car interiors are laced with speakers and microphones to support increasingly complex audio systems and voice recognition features. Now Harman wants to put this hardware on the outside of cars as ...

Recently, I talked about how using your old Android phone as a security camera isn't the best approach for repurposing it, and discussed the possibility of using it as a smart home remote of sorts.

Researchers have developed a battery-free sensor that reacts to sound waves, such as particular spoken words, producing enough vibrational energy to power an electronic device. The novel sensor would ...

In the meantime, smart sensors with on-board processing and communication capabilities are now widely used across the internet of things (IoT). Software-based virtual sensors gene ...