IKEA's 21 new smart IoT devices support Matter, HomeKit, Google, and Alexa, so you can build a low-cost setup with quick pairing and simple controls.

On a snowy and slushy day across Greater Boston today, drivers might wish they had the advanced sensor technology coming to market soon from Boston startup Teradar. The company’s sensors work like ...

Microsoft is introducing a new scareware sensor for the Microsoft Edge web browser, which helps detect scam pages more quickly and ensures that Defender SmartScreen blocks them faster. In scareware ...

Today’s anti-fall technology has come a long way from ‘I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!’ Here’s how it works. By Joyce Cohen Kathy Doyle fell on the street in Manhattan several times over the years.

Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a software developer with a passion for making and electronics. I do a lot of things and here is where I document my learning in order to be able to inspire other people to make ...

If you’ve bought a smoke alarm from Amazon recently, you may want to double-check that it actually meets U.S. safety standards. The Wirecutter recently uncovered that several of the best-selling smoke ...

Abstract: A novel low-cost rain sensor based on a Surface Plasmonic Resonance (SPR) platform has been designed, realized, and tested. The SPR platform has been used to detect the presence of rain by ...

Most electrical and electronic devices today require a method to detect tampering. In many cases, it could mean that the door of a device has been opened. This post will share some tamper detection ...

Lead contamination in municipal water sources is a consistent threat to public health. Ingesting even tiny amounts of lead can harm the human brain and nervous system -- especially in young children.

The E-Tongue is an easy-to-use device that tests for potential lead contamination in drinking water at home. Lead contamination in municipal water sources is a consistent threat to public health.

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...