In addition to being used for capacitive sensing, the integrated touch sensor and solar panel configurations may also be used for optical sensing.

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Apple may yet be the first to introduce the next major advance in mobile devices in the form of integrated touch sensor and solar panel.

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Integrated touch sensor and solar panel configurations that may be used on portable devices, particularly handheld portable devices such as a media player or phone are disclosed.

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The combination of the speedy response of the touchscreen panel and the FAST (Frequency Acceleration Sensor Technology) AF system, the same technology that made the Olympus OM-D the world's fastest autofocusing camera, gives users the power to capture precisely the image they want at precisely the moment they want it.

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After Alberto Herrera , chief executive of fledgling wireless-sensor network company Medida , pitched his firm to a panel of four top-tier Silicon Valley venture capitalists--in front of a standing-room-only crowd of some 350 people-- Josh Stein of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson was so impressed that he asked Herrera to set up a meeting.

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We first met Andrew Chang -- one of the co-founders behind LUMOback -- when he approached us at the end of our panel at SXSW and offered to show us his smart posture sensor.

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Without being prescriptive it is expected that a typical station configuration will consist of a primary tide gauge, two under water pressure sensor (secondary tide gauge), data logger, DCP geostationary satellite transmitter, modem, battery backup, solar panel, cables, mountings.

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