SPOKANE, Wash. — The City of Spokane is launching a program offering property owners a free solar-powered, motion-detecting residential light. The Spokane Safe and Bright Residential Light program ...

You might think traffic light systems are fairly basic. After all, electric traffic signals first appeared all the way back in 1914. However, they have advanced significantly since their inception, ...

Most modern cars have tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS), which will alert you if your tires need air. While most of the readings they give are accurate, they can still fail like any other part ...

Researchers have developed a highly sensitive light-based sensor that can detect extremely low concentrations of cancer biomarkers in the blood. The new technology could one day make it possible to ...

This video shows how to build a motion sensor street light in Minecraft using Redstone mechanics. The tutorial explains how player movement can be detected to automatically turn lights on and off, ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The utility installed sensors on ...

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is an optical sensing technique that measures blood volume changes and underpins devices ranging from hospital-grade pulse oximeters to consumer wearables that track heart ...

Restoring lost senses or delivering precise brain signals has required invasive hardware and can’t mimic the brain’s natural, distributed activity patterns. This platform shows the brain can learn to ...

A global team of experts from academia and industry has joined forces in a landmark ‘Consensus Statement’ on next-generation photodetectors based on emerging light-responsive materials, which could ...

Presence/motion sensors are one of the best ways to make automations feel more natural, but most of them run on batteries and eventually have to be swapped. That’s one of the main reasons I really ...

Scientists have developed a fully transparent skin sensor that accurately measures UV radiation, detecting light and converting it to electrical signals. So when the Sun's rays reach damaging levels, ...

If you ride along a bike path in the U.K. city of Leeds and approach a street, the traffic light can automatically turn green for you—or stay green if you’re already midway across. Traditionally, most ...