Sensors Work Day and Night
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New sensors can detect objects in the roadway even when the sun is glaring in your face. The technology could aid collision avoidance and make air bags more effective. In Autopia.
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X10's ActiveHome Pro modules let you turn your ordinary household lamps and appliances into smart devices that go on and off according to your habits. Product review by Amit Asaravala.
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Buildings are getting smarter &#151; and the next generation of building materials is expected to do even more. Windows could trap the sun's energy to heat hot water. Sensors that measure the carbon dioxide exhaled by people in a room could determine whether the air conditioning needs to be turned up.
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Start-up Dust Networks takes the covers off a low-power wireless system for linking sensors in walls, remote cameras and other places.
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These devices will need some help springing forward with daylight-saving time, which comes three weeks early this year.
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BALTIMORE--Radio frequency identification may be a hot topic among tech types these days, but proponents of the technology gathered here this week are keeping their exuberance in check.
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By Tim Blangger, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  May 25--Some evening after dark, turn off all the lights in your house. After your eyes adjust to the darkness, look around.
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Wool gizmos that show you around the city and sidewalks with sensors were among the 100 projects on display at N.Y.U.âs Interactive Telecommunications Program.
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Sandia's motion detector could help predict if earthquakes are coming or if airplane parts are about to rip loose.
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Particles that capture infrared light could allow everyday objects to tap into an under-exploited source of energy.
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Sensors and cameras are used in many cities to catch drivers who run red lights. But several studies show the presence of cameras may cause more accidents, not fewer.
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Dark days are coming for analog cellular phones.
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A less-than-futuristic surveillance system in San Francisco.
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Some IT staffers who spend their days troubleshooting tech problems at work head home at night so they can do the same thing for free -- as volunteers looking to help the computer-clueless.
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Scientists tap everything from gas-sniffing devices to GPS systems to better forecast when a mountain will stir. By Brad Knickerbocker | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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The software, developed by IBM&#39;s new Sensors and Actuators business unit, is designed to help businesses collect and act on data from RFID and other sensor-based technology.
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With the high cost of gasoline, I have become even more attuned to the waste of fuel while sitting at stoplights. And I have noticed, especially in the evening, that electronic sensors on stoplights will allow the lights to turn green quicker when there is little or no traffic.