infrared

News.blog: Can Bill Gates kill the mouse and keyboard?

News Of course, that's also going to require a lot of infrared cameras to pick up touch patterns as well as projection technology -- and that's all going to cost. It wasn't exactly Minority Report, but Bill Gates' technology demonstration at Microsoft's...

Tags: hand, walls, gates, era

15 May 2008, 9:29

Photos: 'Mobots' race for accuracy

News Sunlight offers another strong source of infrared light, for instance, and the kit vehicle isn't capable of traversing sidewalk cracks. It also sells a kit that uses an infrared LED to illuminate the white line used in the race, and a...

Tags: kit, motion, students, race

22 April 2008, 9:20

Photos: Control your iPod with a wink

News Called the KomeKami Switch, or Temple Switch, the gadget uses infrared sensors and a microcomputer to detect differences in the movement of your skin when you wink. A researcher at Osaka University in Japan has developed a device that allows users...

Tags: eye, ipod, switch, university

5 March 2008, 9:28

Photos: Breaking open R2-D2

News R2 has navigation sensors (sonar that 'sees' objects) and infrared location sensor (for detecting moving people). Separating the dome from the track, we can see another circuit board wired to R2's infrared and navigation sensors.

Tags: module, navigation, recognition, body

2 January 2008, 9:33

Photos: Beauty tech tools

News It also emits infrared light, which helps dry hair faster and with less damage. These days, beauty seekers can, among other things, turn to infrared light and negative-ion technology to style their strands, and lasers and light-emitting diodes to...

8 October 2007, 10:21

Microsoft's Milan tabletop PC a nice touch

News Underneath the roughly textured scratch-proof and spill-proof surface covering the top of the unit, five infrared cameras sense fingers or other objects touching the surface, while a DLP projector turned on its side generates the screen image...

30 May 2007, 10:09

Hyperactive Bob gets fries to go

News Why not simply use infrared technology to determine when cars come into the lot instead of computer vision systems, which tend to be fairly complex? Conventional infrared technology systems also have difficulty distinguishing between incoming and...

27 March 2007, 10:30

Special-effects masters put magic in ILM

News Michael Sanders, an ILM digital supervisor who worked on the second movie and is currently working on the third instalment, explained that the company's motion-capture technology -- in which actors wear clothing fitted with sensors that are picked...

26 January 2007, 10:07

Fujifilm adds to compact camera line

News Fujifilm also announced the $900 (£458) IS-1, which can register infrared as well as visible light. Taking photos with ultraviolet or infrared light is complicated by the fact that the light behaves differently from visible light, complicating...

5 January 2007, 10:12

Roomba rival set to clean up

News The navigation system uses a device plugged into an electrical socket to beam spots of infrared light onto a ceiling. Robot wars are coming to your carpet. Evolution Robotics is developing a robotic vacuum cleaner in conjunction with a large...

23 October 2006, 9:21

Top ten must-have gadgets for students

News This fiendish gadget makes phone calls, handles emails, is capable of browsing the Web and has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, infrared and HSDPA -- it will pretty much run your entire life. What we think This is a entry-level Walkman phone with a great price...

20 September 2006, 16:05

Tiny robots warm up for football cup

News It can be remotely controlled via a built-in infrared module. Japan's Citizen Watch, one of the largest watchmakers in the world, this week announced a tiny robot it hopes will one day be a football legend.

9 March 2006, 9:39

Scanning veins as a human bar code

News The technology is based on an infrared scan of the blood cells running through veins, which is then analysed by a computer. The medical tool uses the infrared scanner to detect veins up to 12mm under the skin, analyses the data in real time with a...

2 February 2006, 9:12

Toshiba makes entangled photon breakthrough

News Currently, the light is in the near-infrared frequency range, with a wavelength of around 900 nanometres. Researchers at Cambridge University and Toshiba have announced a new quantum device that produces entangled photons, a promising technology...

12 January 2006, 9:42

Jobs: New Intel-powered Macs are 'screamers'

News That version also comes with an 80GB hard drive and a new infrared sensor to use with the Apple Remote control device. Addressing a packed crowd of the Mac faithful, Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Tuesday served up the first Intel-based Macs, introducing...

11 January 2006, 11:11