Each uses GPS technology to sense motion and lock the phone.
These sense motion and are used to give commands to devices.
Google executives have said they're looking for applications that make good use of some of Android's unique capabilities, including location-based services, accelerometers that can sense motion and direction, and always-on social networking.
For much of the day, the demos converged on the the Kinect (pictured), the Xbox controller that works with motion and audio sensors to sense depth or take instructions.
These include the frontal cortex (where decisions are made), the motor cortex (which controls muscle activity), the somatosensory cortex (where the sense of touch is located) and the part of the parietal cortex that regulates kinaesthesia (the sense of bodily motion, which is built up from signals from the muscles and the vestibular systems of the ears).
You stay upright despite all clumsiness thanks to its two tilt sensors and five gyroscopes, oriented so that at least two of the gyroscopes sense and correct for any angular motion.
Calder went his own ways, blending a sense of whimsy, unexpected balance and motion with imagery that at times is pure abstraction and other times harkens to mythological imagery.
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But in 2013, with the motion-control craze on the wane, Sony may sense a new opening.
What's most striking about Fujitsu's little robot is its simplicity--in a sense, it's merely a camera with a motion sensor atop a base that contains two wheels.
The MP's office said the wording of the Early Day Motion stated that the "the College authorities seem to have suffered a severe sense of humour loss and as a result penalised at least some of the students involved... worse, the College librarian has been sacked as a result of this incident for which the librarian bears no responsibility".
The timing of the increase makes sense for Microsoft because it is about to launch Kinect, its new motion-sensing add-on to the Xbox 360 console.
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"In normal speeds it's gone in seconds, but in slow motion, when you see it lasting 40 seconds to a minute, you get a real sense of the beauty, the scale and the size and power of that shot which is exactly what we wanted, " Fothergill said.
This strategy makes a lot of sense at this point for two reasons: First, Apple, Nokia and Research in Motion have corrected sharply, though Nokia and Research in Motion more than Apple.
So even when their eyes are closed they can get a sense of whether an artificial arm is extended, or if there is resistance to a grasping motion, making the limb feel less detached and unnatural than an EMG device.
This strategy makes a lot of sense, at the moment, for two reasons: First, Apple, Nokia and Research in Motion have corrected sharply, though Nokia and Research in Motion more than Apple.
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