Silent sensors and tiny servos let vacuums and extractors spring to life based on air quality and machine state.

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The controller you pick up every time you play a game. After years of use, it can get scratched, dirty, or you might just get bored of how it looks.However, if it still works, it's a waste to just ...

Traditional infrared presence sensors are cheap, but unreliable for smart homes, often turning off lights if you remain still for even a few seconds. Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar modules offer a far ...

TMR keyboards became available in 2024 and are marketed as using more advanced sensing technology than mechanical, optical, and Hall-effect keyboards. Like Hall-effect switches, tunnel ...

Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building PCs since young, and when not creating content, you can often find him ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. Traction inverters lie at the heart of today’s hybrid and electric (HEV/EV) vehicles. They had a humble beginning in the 1960s, though, when the shift ...

The discovery of a thermal version of the Hall effect in common semiconductors challenges our understanding of how magnetic fields and heat fluxes interact within solids. Figure 1: Transport ...