Dytran Instruments has just introduced a new accelerometer to the 3035B family of miniature accelerometers. The 3035B series are miniature, lightweight sensors that are ideal for applications where ...

With space at a premium in hearables, smartwatches and other portable consumer products, all components must be as small as possible. However, with OEMs also demanding plug-and-play step-counters and ...

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 ...

(Nanowerk News) In what could be a breakthrough for body sensor and navigation technologies, researchers at KTH have developed the smallest accelerometer yet reported, using the highly conductive ...

*UPDATE 12/5/2008: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that STMicroelectronics was being challenged as a supplier of accelerometers to Nintendo. * At the heart of the success of the ...

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 ...

Schematic diagrams of graphene NEMS accelerometers. a 3D schematic of the proposed graphene NEMS accelerometer. b 3D schematic of the cross-section of the graphene NEMS accelerometer. c, d Schematics ...

The iPhone detects movement and tilting of the handset through its built-in accelerometers. These devices are able to detect movement in six different directions and relay that information to games ...

Type 8766A range of tri-axial PiezoStar IEPE accelerometers offer simultaneous shock and vibration measurement capabilities in three orthogonal axes. Said to be both compact and lightweight, the Type ...

Inside your laptop is a small accelerometer chip, there to protect the delicate moving parts of your hard disk from sudden jolts. It turns out that the same chip is a pretty good earthquake sensor, ...

How do piezoelectric accelerometers — vibration sensors — work? The force caused by vibration or a change in motion (acceleration) causes the sensor's mass to “squeeze” contained piezoelectric ...