In recent decades, a quiet revolution has reshaped how we interact with the objects and systems in our daily lives. What once required cranks or rotary mechanisms, and later the press of a button, is ...

A face recognition gate at NEC Corp.'s headquarters, which can identify a person even when they are wearing a mask, is seen in Minato Ward, Tokyo, on March 30, 2020. (Mainichi/Tatsuya Michinaga) TOKYO ...

In the US alone, more than 55,000 substations and 7 million miles of high voltage transmission and distribution lines transmit more than $400 billion of electricity each year. Many of the substations ...

A streamlined method of adding touchless swipe right, swipe left, proximity, and tap control to any device by using a digital proximity sensor and two discrete infrared emitters is being demonstrated ...