SAN JOSE, Calif. — A secret side project for a Hewlett-Packard engineer has quietly spawned an ultra-sensitive accelerometer. Now the PC giant hopes to leverage the novel device to propel it into a ...

The BMA530 and BMA580 from Bosch Sensortec leverage cutting-edge sensor technology that enhance the capabilities of hearables. They include features such as gesture and context recognition, speech ...

Aimed at vehicle crash, crush zone, and impact testing applications, the 7285 piezoresistive accelerometer weighs less than 1 g and has a 2,000-g full-scale range. The adhesive-mount device also ...

A tiny 3-axis MEMS accelerometer, the LIS2DTW12 from STMicroelectronics embeds a temperature sensor that boasts typical accuracy of 0.8°C. The device’s thin 2×2×0.7-mm LGA-12 plastic package allows it ...

In what is being described as "a breakthrough for body sensor and navigation technologies", a team of scientists in Sweden and Germany have developed the smallest accelerometer yet reported, using ...