Xiaomi has been working on improvements for in-display fingerprint scanning
Fingerprint sensors—modern tools of convenience or awkwardly placed tools that are just plain difficult for instant use?
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Waiting for Wiliot's battery-free sticker sensor tag
A Bluetooth sensor tag with an ARM processor has tech watchers thinking overtime about what this little wonder might achieve. This is a battery-free product. Oh, did you hear that, "battery-free"? Those two words are right ...
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Curiosity builds over Beijing event invites for phone with 10x optical zoom
OPPO is to announce a 10x lossless smartphone zoom camera but at what level of market readiness? That is the question that had a number of tech sites talking about no definite answers but offering ample views.
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Lexar lifts flash memory storage card to 1TB level
"Terabyte hard drives were only for, like, space stations," said Senior Editor for Geek.com, Jordan Minor, recalling when he was kid and thought that "a terabyte was such a huge, incalculable amount of space that surely no ...
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Next-level autonomous shopping carts are even smarter
As the year gets under way a lot of talk encircles the word autonomous and it is not confined to the big Ds of driving and drones. Add an R for retail and you have a growing concept of autonomous shopping.
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Matrix has PowerWatch 2 running on light and body heat
Forgive the Matrix PowerWatch 2 suggestion if it sounds like aggressive marketing: this is not jargon; this is a powerwatch. The watch uses solar and heat to power its varied functions, from health and fitness monitoring ...
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RFID tag arrays track body movements, shape changes
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have found ways to track body movements and detect shape changes using arrays of RFID tags. RFID-embedded clothing thus could be used to control avatars in video games—much like in ...
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How to plan your smart home—and weigh privacy risks
You might have heard of lights that turn off with an app or voice command. Or window shades that magically rise every morning.
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Patent talk: Apple concept features earbuds that can be worn interchangeably
Are we about to see Apple reaching an even newer gold standard in ear buds? Apple has a patent for AirPods with built in biometrics. It's being called "universal" because the idea calls for ear pods that can be worn in either ...
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A sensor called Structure Core will serve the spatial-awareness needy
Good news for those wanting to work with a depth-sensing camera. Occipital is announcing Structure Core sensor—a 3-D perception system that goes on sale next year. Target users would be roboticists, developers, hardware ...
