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Wizz Air jet pilots had to abandon take-off at 140mph when speed sensor failed because insect had laid three eggs in it The Wizz Air pilots were thundering down the runway at Doncaster Airport Probe later blamed three tiny eggs, each the size of a grain of rice inside sensor The June 16 episode was … Read more
Amazon unveils Ring sensor for mailboxes that alerts users if someone steals their mail by sending real-time alerts each time they are opened or closed Amazon announced a number of new Ring-powered technologies The firm revealed a new Mailbox Sensor that sits inside a person’s mailbox The sensor is paired with the Ring app and … Read more
Sensor fitted mouth piece lets user control a joystick with their TONGUE to move objects on a computer screen [In] Brace is a plastic mouth piece fitted with sensors and a joystick Users place a transmitter behind their ear and can control objects on a screen The device could be used to help those with … Read more
Chinese company unveils smartphone with sensor that takes temperatures down to a tenth of a degree when held next to your wrist or face The phone can read one’s temperature when held next to a wrist or face Honor says that it can read temperatures down to a tenth of a degree The feature will look … Read more
Your smartphone may soon be able to detect if you have coronavirus by coughing or sneezing onto a sensor. A team at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City has developed a portable, reusable device the size of a quarter that plugs into a phone’s charging port. If the virus is in the sample, … Read more
Italian police are using drones with thermal sensors to detect people with coronavirus out in public during the strict lockdown. The small drone flies above virus hotspots such as Bergamo in the Lombardy region, measuring the temperature of those below. It then tells residents to go home and can even be used to issue fines … Read more
NASA has launched a public competition to design a sensor that will guide a future rover across rough terrain and inhospitable environment on Venus. The sensor will need to be able to withstand heat capable of ‘turning lead into a puddle’ and pressure high enough to ‘crush a submarine’, the space agency said. It will … Read more
New Bluetooth sensor ‘can detect heart failure 10 days before it happens even when patients show no symptoms’ Device worn on chest tracks heart rate and rhythm, sleep quality and step count It pings this data to app which using artificial intelligence to get normal baseline Can then detect when heart’s function starts to deteriorate … Read more