Using a 3D-printed material sensitive to electric fields, researchers have created a novel sensor that can accurately recognize and distinguish objects up to 10 centimeters – about four inches – away ...

You can’t have a touch sensitive switch without a way to detect the presence of a finger! A touch sensor, especially a capacitive touch sensor, has some surprisingly sophisticated electronics to ...

Trinamix partners with Aumovio to bring fingertip alcohol detection sensors to cars by 2029 using near-infrared spectroscopy ...

During the last two months, announcements of new touch sensors and touch-sensor capabilities have arrived from Silicon Labs, Freescale, and Atmel. But the technologies differ and give engineers a ...

UltraSense revealed a piece of tech today that'll open the door to a new generation of devices tomorrow. This is the sort of thing that you read or hear about and ask: "Why hasn't anyone thought of ...

A new low-power capacitive sensor could make it easier forengineers to employ touch-pad interfaces on products ranging from cell phonesto garage door openers. Known as the MPR121 ultra-low power ...

Capacitive touch sensors have made homes i n scores of MP3 players and mobile phones. Of course, the mobile arena is no longer the only bastion for these devices. Today, sensor technology has ...

Some of us might never know the touch of another human, but this project in the Hackaday Prize might just be the solution. It’s TouchYou, [Leonardo]’s idea for a wearable device that allows anyone to ...

A new tactile sensor can detect surface shapes and structures, showing advantages over existing sensors, according to new research. A team of researchers have developed an artificial tactile sensor ...

The 16-key QT60160 and 24-key QT60240 touch-sensor chips detect human touch through panels measuring up to 50 mm in thickness when teamed with a scanned X-Y passive matrix. Their ability to operate on ...

MIT has developed an inexpensive sensor glove designed to enable artificial intelligence to figure out how humans identify objects by touch. Called the Scalable TActile Glove (STAG), it uses 550 tiny ...