Spokeo reports seven hidden ways smartphones track users without permission, including accelerometer data and digital fingerprinting, urging vigilance.

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 ...

iPhone sensors like accelerometers and LiDAR do way more than you think-from measuring spices to hands-free cooking and identifying mystery ingredients.

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 ...

The invisible sensor network that powers your phone's smartest features.

In a conference room at Analog Devices (ADI), Howard Wisniowski holds a demo board a little bigger than a commemorative stamp about a meter above the table top. An ADI motion sensor and associated ...

Three researchers from China’s Nanjing University have published a report that details the ease with which a person can use a malicious application to access the accelerometer of a subway rider’s ...

Motion parameter transducers encapsulate a broad class of sensors that convert mechanical motion into electrical signals, facilitating quantitative analysis of dynamic systems. Within this category, ...

A leaked internal build of the iOS 13 operating system suggests that Apple is preparing to radically enhance the motion and position tracking abilities of upcoming devices, using a new coprocessor ...