Sensors such as GPS, accelerometers, gyroscopes, NFC, and high resolution cameras are now commonplace in smartphones.
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That means branching into compasses, magnetometers and pressure sensors while continuing to manufacture accelerometers and gyroscopes.
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Gyroscopes, accelerometers and altimeters provide more accurate positioning than is possible using global-positioning system (GPS) satellites alone.
Gaming ones use accelerometers and gyroscopes to track users' motions, while mobile-navigation apps rely on inbuilt GPS systems.
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The Razer Edge tablet in its many forms is designed with ultra-precise accelerometers and a highly-sensitive, multi-touch screen.
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Accelerometers are used heavily in the design, and this allows the screen to change orientation simply by turning the phone.
More sophisticated gadgets, known as accelerometers, measure the rate at which a person moves and convert this into calories expended.
Hillcrest's patented motion control software platform provides a sensor-agnostic solution for motion control devices using accelerometers, gyroscopes and magnetometers (compasses) in a variety of configurations.
Things we now take for granted in a smartphone, like accelerometers and autocorrecting software keyboards, were far more novel when the iPhone arrived.
You could monitor your sleep using the science of actigraphy but, as we've learned, accelerometers don't always make for the best slumber trackers.
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Using the same accelerometers, a new calling function will dial whoever's contact details you have displayed when you raise the phone to your ear.
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To confirm this, Dr Dial measured the direction in which the birds were forced by their wings, by mounting accelerometers on each animal's torso.
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Other researchers had looked into ways to subvert data gathered by gyroscopes, accelerometers and other orientation sensors to work out passwords, said Dr Aviv.
But from a product standpoint, the fastest growth will be seen in conventional device categories like accelerometers and radio frequency MEMS that target consumer applications.
In the past, Apple has relied on Bluetooth and Wi-Fi chips from Broadcom, flash memory from Toshiba, and gyroscopes and accelerometers from ST Micro.
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The team has also been developing systems using accelerometers, in particular.
Above that is a circular speaker that provides feedback based on your movement (detected by internal accelerometers and gyroscopes, along with pressure sensors in the sole).
As MEMS' average selling price has dropped, it has opened or expanded new end-markets for rapidly emerging MEMS technologies like tri-axis accelerometers and radio-frequency MEMS switches.
"They were using devices that detect breakdown in dexterity and accelerometers but they had also recorded the voices of around 50 patients with Parkinson's, " explained Mr Little.
Another possibility being looked at is to put accelerometers into football helmets (the same nifty little chips that fuel the motion-sensitive controllers in Wii video game consoles).
Cellphone handsets practically define their own separate MEMS sector, going beyond accelerometers and microphones to include RF switches and oscillators, and passive parts like filters, duplexers and resonators.
For example, the devices have cameras, GPS capabilities, and accelerometers.
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The current iteration of Google Glass has a camera and microphone for audio and video recording, a touchpad for navigation and a gyroscope, accelerometers along with other sensors.
It combines a conventional global positioning system (GPS) signal with those of other sensors - accelerometers and gyroscopes - to pinpoint a car's location to within 2m (6ft 6in).
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X2Impact, a Seattle-based startup, has embedded accelerometers into mouth guards and linked them to a transmitter in the chin strap, according to Steve Clayton, editor of the Next at Microsoft blog.
The system developed in Madrid makes use of a unit comprised of three accelerometers and three gyroscopes, which keep track of the speed and direction of a vehicle at all times.
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Accelerometers are used in cars to detect when to inflate an airbag, in devices like the Nintendo Wii controller and in Apple laptops to detect if the computer is being dropped.
Google executives have said they're looking for applications that make good use of some of Android's unique capabilities, including location-based services, accelerometers that can sense motion and direction, and always-on social networking.
By the 2000s, a host of sensors -- from GPS, which enables mobile mapping, to accelerometers, which helps the phone know if it's being tilted -- were being squeezed into the gadgets.
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