Sensors
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State-of-the-art smell and stress sensors were all the rage at Tokyo Tech fair
•Sharp displayed a kitty litter tray equipped with sensors to measure urine volume and frequency.
Tesla's Elon Musk to make a new autopilot chip available in about six months
•New chip to improve the performance of Tesla’s Autopilot between 500 percent and 2000 percent.
Physicists have developed a sensor-driven ‘skin’ that allows you to control appliances and manipulate objects in AR and VR
Ians •The sensors on the electronic skin can also withstand bending, folding and stretching without losing their control functionality.
DST and Intel launch four new R&D projects for real-time air and water quality monitoring
Sunderarajan Padmanabhan •Four new research and development projects for real-time monitoring of air and water quality were launched jointly by Dept of Science and Tech. and Intel.
UK government announces drone registration; adds new drone code for users
Tech2 News Staff •Announced on 22 July, a drone weighing in at 250 grams and above will have to be registered from now on.
Biometric firm Fingerprint Cards will supply sensors for Qualcomm products
Fp Archives •The company made its big breakthrough in 2015 as demand for fingerprint sensors in smartphones and tablets soared, sending its share price up by around 1,600 percent. It shed half its value last year.
Researchers develop low-cost wireless smart glove to translate sign language into texts
•The device, called The Language of Glove, was built for less than USD 100 using stretchable and printable electronics that are inexpensive, commercially available and easy to assemble.
New Solar powered smart windows can save up to 40 percent of the energy cost in buildings
Ians •The new solar-powered version promises to be inexpensive and easy to apply to existing windows.
In self-driving car race, only four out of nine cars cover 2 mile course without human help
Fp Archives •Nine self-driving cars did not quite zoom around a 2-mile (3.2-km) course in Northern California over the weekend in a race involving students and entrepreneurs from startup companies where the real goal was just to make it around the track.
Intel has agreed to buy autonomous vehicle technology firm Mobileye for $15.3 billion
Fp Archives •The pricey acquisition of Mobileye could propel the world's largest computer chipmaker, Intel, into the front ranks of automotive suppliers.
