To European semiconductor manufacturer STMicroelectronics, however, these tiny motion sensors are an important growth area.
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The kit includes an Iris Hub, motion sensors, a keypad and door, window and cabinet sensors.
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Veterinarians are starting to use motion sensors to detect lameness in racehorses.
Over the past year, Microsoft has shipped over 18 million Kinect motion sensors.
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These physical devices come in a variety of configurations that include various combinations of MEMS motion sensors, motion processors, and appropriate APIs.
As LED technology proliferates, customers will experiment with integrating motion sensors into bulbs, turning LEDs into nodes for security systems.
Some cemeteries are beefing up patrols, keeping gates locked at night or installing motion sensors hooked up to video cameras.
Also, every room has a large fireplace as well as motion sensors which control the heat, lights and even the shades.
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The product utilizes a combination of positional technology, motion sensors and near field communication to capture the golfer's data from the course.
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Features such as location-based services, near field communications, augmented reality and an array of motion sensors deliver a platform ideal for business process innovation.
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Now while we've seen other iPhone remote apps overcome this by using both gestures and the built in motion sensors, Bobby does not.
We are helping our customers to innovate and take full advantage of the power of today's MEMS motion sensors using our unique sensor fusion software.
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That inspired Golf Game, a system that pairs NFC with current golf tech like GPS and motion sensors to track your every duff.
In the corporate sector hundreds of employers already use omnipresent cameras, motion sensors and smart ID cards--an infrastructure that could be easily converted to serve antiterrorist purposes.
The trend continued when motion sensors were introduced by Apple into the iPhone, combined with smartphones and tablets, this has brought motion games to near a billion people.
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Its only a matter of time before motion sensors take the stage as a more realistic experience requiring you to have skill that involves more than your 2 thumbs.
In order to get the functionality it needed, APX grafted a 5 megapixel camera, mic and a full suite of motion sensors to provide nine-axis head tracking onto a Moverio headset.
But how are motion sensors proliferating to protecting us.
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Connecting together the company's existing capacitive touch technology with motion sensors and eye movement cameras, the system centers on the multimodal commander -- that mysterious-looking orb located below the gear stick.
At the TED conference this week, Jawbone CEO and cofounder Hosain Rahman unveiled a new product called UP, a handsome-looking flexible bracelet packed with vibration and motion sensors and wireless radio chips.
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The captain can also call on the assistance of an electronic positioning system that uses a combination of data from satellites, gyrocompasses, and wind and motion sensors to operate the thrusters automatically.
At the intersection of sports and protection is Ridell, who is now selling football helmets instrumented with motion sensors to monitor, record, and lessen the deleterious effects of repeated collisions to the head.
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The base station itself can connect to as many as 240 lights and switches, with support for all sorts of devices: heat and cooling systems, smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, doorbells, dehumidifiers and motion sensors.
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Using an approach known as "inertial navigation", modified from military and industrial applications and Dr Donikian's own work with firefighters and first responders, Navisens' algorithms process raw data gleaned from low-cost motion sensors on smartphones.
An environmentally friendly company called GreenGoose makes cute little wireless stickers containing motion sensors, allowing you to track anything that moves, from a pet or child to your phone, or even to check if your spouse left the toilet seat up.
Until then, they were fairly boring things, with most people understanding how they worked only because their neighborhood streetlights went on when they sensed darkness, smoke detectors sounded alarms and fire trucks beeped because motion sensors understood when they were backing up.
Second Sight Medical Products developed the world's first working bionic eye, which could soon be available in the US, and fashion company Machina produced the world's first jacket to combine a MIDI controller with motion sensors -- essentially, it's a jacket that turns your body into a synthesizer.
Both Sony and Microsoft included their own take on motion sensors (with Microsoft doing completely away with the controller when it introduced the Kinect) and now Sony and Microsoft are likely to introduce their own take on second screen experience with the new consoles they will unveil this year.
Nintendo's Wii controller already has motion-sensors and it seems it won't be long before more interactive gear, including clothing, become part of a video-game player's wardrobe.
It's also packing motion control sensors, haptic feedback, dual speakers, shoulder buttons, left and right rear triggers, a microphone, an infrared sensor, near-field communication support, a front-facing camera and a rechargeable battery (it even has its own power adapter).
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