electric potential sensor detects changes in electric field

Plymouth, ENGLAND – 10 October 2011 – Plessey Semiconductors announced today that commercial samples of its award winning Electric Potential Integrated Circuit (EPIC) sensors are now available. The first products are optimised for use as an ECG sensor and provide a resolution as good as or better than conventional electrodes. The EPIC sensors offer several advantages that save money and speed up taking readings. First, the EPIC sensors are dry contact so that no gels or similar fluids are required to make contact. Second, the sensors can be simply cleaned between uses - unlike conventional ECG sensors that have to be disposed of after every use at a cost of $2 a set. Third, only a pair of sensors are required that are held in each hand which is very quick to do unlike the current approach that requires seven or more leads to be carefully applied to specific locations on the body whilst the patient lies down.
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Volvo & vision system

wiigee

A Java-based gesture recognition library for the Wii remote

wiigee is an open-source gesture recognition library for accelerometer-based gestures specifically developed for the Nintendo® Wii™ remote controller. It is implemented in Java™ and, thus, is platform-independent. Using a third-party Bluetooth®-library wiigee allows you to define and recognize your own, freely trained gestures.

http://www.wiigee.com/demovideo/demovideo.html

MPU-6000 World’s First Integrated 3-axis Gyroscope, 3-axis Accelerometer and 9-axis sensor fusion

The MPU-6000 is the world’s first integrated 6-axis motion processor that eliminates gyro/accel cross-axis misalignment and offers dramatic package size reduction compared with multi-chip solutions. The MPU-6000 has an embedded 3-axis gyroscope, 3-axis accelerometer, and Digital Motion Processor™ (DMP™) hardware accelerator engine with a secondary I²C port that interfaces to a third party compass or other sensors to deliver a complete 9-axis sensor fusion output to its primary I²C port as a single data stream for the application.

Canesta vision system

 Canesta has developed 3D camera sensor, which can sense third dimension of sensed object
For more visit:
http://canesta.com/products-and-technology/products/canestavision-chips