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Poor reception is the curse of all cell phones. While there is little you can do about your carrier's spotty coverage in any given location, you can make it easier for others to hear you by investing in a better headset. The Jawbone has a sensor that rests on your cheekbone and picks up vibrations emanating from your head as you speak. It then uses those data to filter out background noise. You may not notice the difference, but the person on the other end will hear you much better...
...deviate very far from the DDR-established formula of following the beats, but it one ups its competitors with one resonant feature: bongo drums. The pads are ultra-plush and springy, and even after an hour of play, my hands felt no pain. The bongo controller also features a sensor between the two pads to detect hand claps, which are also elemental to the action...
...plane I'm riding in is itself a flying data-collecting instrument, with an air- sampling rod protruding from its nose and three radar units fastened to its nose, belly and tail. In addition, it has a pipe in the fuselage for launching sensor-loaded canisters known as dropwindsondes, sleek probes that take continuous readings of wind speeds, temperature, pressure and humidity as they parachute down. By combining the data obtained by multiple dropwindsondes, computer models can recon- struct the environment both inside and outside a hurricane, identifying conditions that feed or sap its strength or steer...
...create a charitable foundation. They put in €900,000, and Scheubeck encouraged the company's suppliers and business partners to make donations. With more than €1.1 million now in its coffers, the Scheubeck-Jansen Foundation has enough to fund its initial project: the first professorship in sensor technology at nearby Regensburg University of Applied Sciences. "We wanted to do something for the region, to set a cornerstone for a new industry cluster," says Scheubeck, 54, who chairs the foundation and serves as managing director of the family holding company. Until recently, such generosity would have been unusual - unwanted...
...were to crack open your digital camera, one thing you would find is the image sensor, a tiny silicon chip about a half-inch wide embedded with millions of pixels tightly packed together. When struck by light, each pixel generates an electric current that is converted into the digital data that make up your picture. But not all pixels are created equal, and some cameras use larger ones than others. For example, the pixels on the HP Photosmart R707 are just 2.8 microns wide, whereas those on the Nikon D70 are 7.8 microns wide. (A micron is tiny?1/24...