With accelerometer features increasingly being used for user interface purposes in mobile phones, small appliances and gaming, Freescale Semiconductor's latest MEMS-based accelerometer has been ...

We barely notice them, but they're one of the most important features buried in the everyday smartphone experience. Accelerometers are devices that can measure acceleration (the rate of change in ...

The sensor that lets your phone know which way the screen is oriented also—thanks to minute manufacturing variations—emits a unique data “fingerprint” that could allow your phone to be tracked, even ...

Accelerometers are devices that measure static or dynamic acceleration. There are many applications which require the need of this device. One important application of an accelerometer is in an ...

In a move to bring screen-orientation awareness to mobile Web applications, Google has added accelerometer APIs to the WebKit HTML renderer. The APIs are based on the DeviceOrientation Event ...

Logging in as an efficient power saver, the KXTE9 digital-output, tri-axis accelerometer employs embedded algorithms for orientation and activity monitoring to simplify motion-based functionality in ...

Last fall, I grabbed a robot arm from Robot Geeks when they were on sale at Thanksgiving. The arm uses servos to rotate the base and move the joints and gripper. These work well enough but I found one ...

All iOS devices, including the iPod Touch, have built-in motion detection sensors called accelerometers. The accelerometer can determine the orientation and angle the device is in, allowing apps, Web ...