Droid Sensors, Mobile Sensors

Nokia’s “Sensor Backpacks” For Mobile Devices

“Imagine a person with armor, and all kinds of sensors around them, so that we can start programming whatever gestures we want.” Source: link

EA Sports Active 2.0 with a heartbeat monitor and motion sensor

Debuting this fall, EA Sports Active 2.0 will include a heartbeat monitor that you strap to your arms and one thigh. Not only will it measure your heart rate, but it will sense your motions and translate those movements into in-game actions. Tarrnie Williams, executive producer of the game at EA’s studio in Burnaby, Canada, said in an interview that you can upload data for permanent storage online and you can share progress in physical fitness with your friends. Since you can now play it on a...

An Implantable Glucose Sensor Could Help Diabetics Stay Healthy

It is a rice grain-sized solar powered implantable sensor, which hides underneath the skin for about a year at a stretch and measures the blood glucose levels consistently all the while. The sensor send data to a variety of portable electronic devices such as cellphones and PDAs, alerting the patient each time the blood sugar levels go high. Clinical trials of the device are expected to being in two years, while the sensor could go on sale by 2017. Source: link

Sensaris city project – based on mobile sensors

Introducing the real-time environmental mapping project, beased on The City Senspod Sensor: Volunteers carry mobile sensors and data is displayed in real time using Augmented Reality (Layar) and Google Maps. Project to be started this spring in The Netherlands. More info: link

The wireless sensors – The future of medicine

From TED TALKS: Eric Topol says we'll soon use our smartphones to monitor(with help of mobile sensors) our vital signs and chronic conditions. At TEDMED, he highlights several of the most important wireless devices, sensors in medicine's future -- all helping to keep more of us out of hospital beds.

The Sensor Device for Developers – The Waspmote

The Libelium Inc. has released new low power sensor device( "Waspmote") capable of monitoring any environment, though in adverse conditions. Sensor Boards: Gases (CO, CO2, CH4..), accelerometer, temperature, liquid level, weight, pressure, humidity, luminosity etc. Communications: GPRS, GPS, USB, WiFi,  Bluetooth + SD Card, Flash, . This year, Libelium will participate as an exhibitor at CeBIT 2010, one of the european foremost tradeshows for new technologies. There will be live de...

iBAC alcometer

The iBAC  -  an alcometer (a small breathalyser unit connected to the mobile device using Bluetooth), a phone application and a web site for tracking the readings of multiple users. It can be useful for transport or other businesses that need their employees to be alcohol-free on the job. More info & purchase: link

MagnetU – Sensor for Mobile Social Networking

MagnetU is the world's first personal Mobile Social Networking fashion accessory that socialize you with people around you. MagnetU gives people the power to match and make new connections with people who are right now close to them - from a very close distance of 1 meter up to potentially hundreds of meters away, whether for making new friends, finding love, date or just meet people who share the same interests. Take your social life out of home environment. More: link

Millimeter-scale, energy-harvesting sensor system developed

The U-M system’s processor, solar cells, and battery are all contained in its tiny frame, which measures 2.5 by 3.5 by 1 millimeters. It is 1,000 times smaller than comparable commercial counterparts. The system could enable new biomedical implants as well as home-, building- and bridge-monitoring devices. It could vastly improve the efficiency and cost of current environmental sensor networks designed to detect movement or track air and water quality. The sensor spends most of its tim...

Broadcom Bluetooth Enables Mobile Phones to Keep Track of User’s Health

Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM)  today announced that it has extended its portfolio of Bluetooth® system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions to enable mobile phones (and other devices) to wirelessly track and monitor health and fitness indicators. Broadcom's implementation of the Bluetooth Health Devices Profile (HDP) helps expand the Bluetooth ecosystem to include very low power health and fitness sensors enabled by Bluetooth. Broadcom is demonstrating its Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology at ...