Apple's compact smart speaker can develop problems with the touch sensor after a few years of use. It is unclear how often this happens – There is no remedy. The ...

As an added bonus, ProTac can be set to a "flicker mode" in which the PDLC continuously (and rapidly) switches back and forth between its transparent and opaque states. This allows the system to ...

Apple's foldable has been the talk of the town for a while, and it looks like it might finally be on the horizon. According to a new report, the Cupertino-based tech giant is expected to launch its ...

Capacitive touch sensors are entirely in the domain of DIY, requiring little more than a carefully-chosen conductive surface and a microcontroller. This led [John Phillips] to ask why not embed such ...

Apple’s development teams are quietly advancing what could become the most significant authentication upgrade in Apple Watch history. Internal engineering codes discovered by industry analysts suggest ...

In recent decades, a quiet revolution has reshaped how we interact with the objects and systems in our daily lives. What once required cranks or rotary mechanisms, and later the press of a button, is ...

I use the current Arduino core for the ESP32 v3.3.0. and M5Unified also in the current version 0.2.7 with the Arduino core for the ESP32 v3.2.1 everything still ...

Rutronik Adapter Board RAB7 is an open-source hardware Arduino shield designed for AI-powered Sensor Fusion with seven environmental and inertial sensors from Bosch, Infineon, and Sensirion. The ...

Amazon has developed a new warehouse robot that uses touch to rummage around shelves to find the right product to ship to customers. The robot, called Vulcan, is a meaningful step toward making robots ...

Researchers argue that the problem that has been lurking in the margins of many papers about touch sensors lies in the robotic skin itself. Researchers at Northwestern University and Israel's Tel Aviv ...

An innovative prosthetic hand can grasp and distinguish between a wide range of objects with near-human precision 1. The human hand’s combination of rigid and soft anatomy allows it to effortlessly ...

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is the latest to bring more information about the long-rumored iPhone Fold. This time, the top Apple insider has tons of little details to share about this device. Most ...