The sensors can monitor which departments you visit and how much time you spend there.
The sensors can detect when the driver becomes sleepy because your heart rate slows down considerably.
He said drivers would be given no warning of where the sensors were located.
Sony is proposing a system that removes the glue and sticks the sensors in your pillow.
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But advances mean the sensors are now tiny, solar powered and capable of operating for decades.
There's even a rudimentary web interface for monitoring the various data coming in from the sensors.
Communicating with the sensors is a challenge, particularly for those sensors located out on the reef.
The sensors pick up the microwaves with an antenna and convert the signal into electrical energy.
Instead the sensors would be mobile and dispersed on land, at sea, on aircraft and in space.
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The sensors are wired to a power source and data flows through wires to a nearby computer.
The sensor and the motors that control the sensors are well out of the way, Aram said.
The sensors used in pocket-sized digital cameras and mobile phones are truly minuscule (5mm by 7mm) by comparison.
You can put the sensors next to the LED chips inside light bulbs.
As the sound waves reverberate, the sensors register them and computers interpret the findings to determine promising drilling sites.
HP's contribution, in addition to the sensors, includes on-site networking, storage and computation.
PrimeSense developed the sensors in Microsoft Kinnect, the ones that sees and responds to dancing, jumping or kicking.
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The researchers hope that despite the initial expense and training involved in using the sensors, more farmers will do so.
Applying a game-like approach to tracking, users get points when the sensors indicate that they've met goals for that day.
The sensors, said Ballmer, will eventually be integrated into PCs and smartphones and powered by the cloud-based Windows Azure platform.
The smart T-shirt's stretchable fabric holds the sensors firmly in place - the elastic fibres are even used to measure breathing.
Angle adds, the whole freight train that has moved robotics forward has come from gaming and includes the sensors from Primesense.
Military commanders could conceivably use the sensors to identify the most alert and battle-ready soldiers to serve as the mission's point people.
Streetline originally developed the sensors used in the parking space, but has now built a platform for managing information about parking spaces.
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Those packets are bounced back to the sensors from any active connection.
The sensors are supported by drone aircraft known locally as "desert phantoms".
If the new route is longer, you may need gas and the sensors will help you locate the closest or cheapest available resource.
While the sensors can cope with shirts and even jumpers, a heavy winter coat would be too much for them to get past.
Among the team's challenges was modifying the sensors designed to detect the heat from an incoming warhead, as the satellite will be much cooler.
Their confidence can also suffer because of frequent false alarms that are triggered when the straps work loose and the sensors break their contacts.
The sensors could be used to measure treatment success with those receiving experimental therapies to regrow cells that restore hearing or to deliver drugs.
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