Scientists in the company's research lab have built an experimental system that captures data, such as a baby's heart rate, temperature and movement, from a series of sensors under the baby's mattress and feeds the information to the parents' PC.

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Cao Gadgets is attempting to fill that niche with its functionally named Wireless Sensor Tags -- small devices which monitor movement and temperature, notifying you if anything's amiss.

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Every movement, sound and temperature change will be recorded and analysed before the team presents its findings to the Royal Navy.

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In a room at the university I was wired up with several electrodes and sensors to record my body temperature, sweat production and the movement of the "emotional" muscles around my left eye.

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This slows down the movement, and hence the temperature, of its atoms to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero.

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The GPS can also be used to track movement, while other sensors on board can monitor temperature, humidity and heart rate.

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It is an extremely complex measurement, because there are so many factors at work: shifting ocean currents, the dynamics and movement of large ice shelves, and the varying temperature and saltiness of water at different places.

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