Droid Sensors, Mobile Sensors

Glucose Meter for the iPhone

Sanofi-aventis unveiled the world's first attachment to iPhone and iPod that is a standalone medical device. The plug-in, dubbed iBGStar, was developed by Sanofi-aventis and AgaMatrix, the company we profiled last year for its efforts to develop a connectivity package for iPhone and its own glucose meters. Source: link

Miniature LCOS Laser Picoprojector Is As Big As A Matchbox

OEMed by XDM, a part of Explay in Japan, is truly something to behold. Smaller than a matchbox – it’s about an inch on each side – it pumps out an unspeckled 14 lumens image in full color at about 800 pixels on the top side. It small enough to fit in the upper corner of almost any phone and the aperture is so tiny it’s almost unnoticeable. Source: link

U.bo pet robot controlled by phone

Tokyo Toy show the demonstration of a new pet robot called U.bo from Phison Electronics. Measuring 10cm in length and 8.5cm high, it comes with an interactive software that can be installed on PCs. Consequently, different mouse buttons can be used to interact with the virtual U.bo. Also, a Bluetooth connection in the mobile phone can be used to control it. It also has some touch sensors in the bum, which if petted upon can cause lot of happiness to this round robot and spanking lot of unha...