The team from the Sensing, Interaction & Perception Lab at ETH Zürich, Switzerland have come up with TapType, an interesting text input method that relies purely on a pair of wrist-worn devices, that ...

Short of yelling a command, tapping a screen, rotating a dial, pressing a button, or flicking your wrist, there are not many ways to interact with the average smartwatch. Sure, you could gesticulate ...

LONDON — Motion sensing, largely enabled by Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) accelerometers, has taken more than its usual share of the headlines recently. Whilst not a rags to riches tale – ...

A newly-released academic paper suggests that even without tapping into a GPS hackers can learn your movements through your cellphone with shocking accuracy, according to the Daily Dot. These findings ...

Why is a dual-mode IMU sensor needed for some applications? Accelerometer inertial measurement units (IMUs) are useful in ...

Also known as inertial sensors, accelerometers are critical elements in key applications such as automotive air-bag deployment, smartphone motion tracking, and industrial predictive maintenance. These ...

When professional athletes are having their performance analyzed, it's certainly not unheard of for them to wear motion capture suits while training in a lab environment. Coaches and others can then ...

Security researchers have tracked commuters with over 90 percent accuracy through accelerometer data stolen from Android smartphones. In a paper describing the research, titled "We Can Track You If ...

After debuting in Japan, earlier this year, Sony is finally ready to bring Mocopi—the company’s smartphone-based wearable motion-tracking system—to the US, and while it arrives with a slight price ...