When working, it splits light into its component colours, to reveal information about the chemical content, temperature and motion of planets, comets, stars, interstellar gas and galaxies.

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It contains a device that measures such things as temperature, motion and light intensity, and it sports a miniature antenna and a radio with a range of 10 to 50 meters.

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For example, a business needs to capture new data sources such as location, motion, and environmental conditions like temperature and humidity.

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Twine itself is a block of plastic containing an accelerometer (which senses motion or vibration), a temperature sensor and a processor much like Botanicalls.

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It comes loaded with five sensors which intelligently determine when to take a photos based on changes in light, motion, direction, colour and temperature.

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These atoms are cooled to a temperature of only a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero, the coldest possible temperature, at which all motion stops.

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Sensors that understand everything from temperature, light and moisture to motion, pressure and stress, need to be connected.

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That's all thanks to a collection of six sensors, which keep tabs on metrics like temperature, ambient light, humidity and motion -- whether it's fingers about to touch the display or people passing in and out of the room.

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