Sensor

OmniVision has announced that its OV6948 unit has been declared the world's smallest commercially available image sensor by Guinness World Records. And the company has now squeezed it into a new camera module.

Given that the WHO estimates that seven million premature deaths annually around the world are caused by air pollution, monitoring air quality is vital. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed an optical nano-sensor that can be mounted to most streetlamps.

Spider-Man's "spidey-sense" isn't purely fiction – spiders have tiny, sensitive hairs on their legs that help them avoid predators or hunt prey. And now, engineers at Purdue University have developed similar sensors for autonomous cars or drones.

In what promises to be a big step forward in 3D vision systems for autonomous vehicles, Velodyne has announced a new 128-channel LiDAR sensor that boasts the longest range and highest-resolution on the market.

It could only have come from Japan. From the country that gave the world smart toilets comes a device that saves users from being socially ostracized by telling them whether or not they smell.

The firm behind the sensor of the Leica M has developed a 48-megapixel CMOS offering with a global shutter. In addition to being suited to shooting fast-moving objects without distortion, the CMV50000 from CMOSIS, can also support 8K video resolutions at 30 fps.

​New ways of tracking the contents of our sweat has opened up some exciting possibilities in health monitoring, and alcohol sensors are a part of this mix. But a new flexible, tattoo-like sensor developed by US researchers might be the most discreet one we've seen yet.

​British defense and aerospace company BAE Systems is looking to revolutionize how we measure airspeed, replacing conventional, air-pressure-based systems with tech that bounces around ultraviolet lasers to get the job done.​

A team of Belgian scientists has developed what is billed as the most sensitive "electronic nose" yet. The chemical sensor detects pesticides and nerve gases and has a design that could see it integrated with electronics such as your smartphone.

Researchers in Saudi Arabia have used low-cost everyday items that you probably have laying around your house​ to develop a paper-based sensor that reacts to the same stimuli as human skin, such as pressure, touch and temperature.

Researchers have developed a thin and flexible pressure sensor that's able to continue to function effectively when curved over a tiny radius.

Researchers at Duke University have developed a prototype sensor that’s not only able to figure out the direction of a particular sound, but can also extract it from background noise. The disk-shaped device is made of plastic and doesn't have any electronic or moving parts.