Xiaomi's ecosystem of gadgets is expanding. As is customary, the company brought its new flagship phones to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, including the Xiaomi 17 and the Xiaomi 17 Ultra. Xiaomi ...

Holding an egg requires a gentle touch. Squeeze too hard, and you'll make a mess. Opening a water bottle, on the other hand, needs a little more grip strength. According to the U.S. Centers for ...

Full vehicle autonomy has been about two years away for a decade or more, but at CES 2026—as happened at its past umpteen predecessors—we got a preview of promising new technologies that claim they’ll ...

Xiaomi is pushing a new idea for smartwatch input with the Xiaomi Watch 5, and it’s not another screen shortcut. The Xiaomi Watch 5’s gesture control system uses an EMG sensor to read electrical ...

The headline feature is undoubtedly the inclusion of an EMG (Electromyography) sensor. While we’ve seen ECG (Electrocardiogram) sensors become standard for heart health, an EMG sensor is a rarity. It ...

[mircemk] shows how to create a simple non-contact proximity sensor using little more than an Arduino Nano board, and a convenient software library intended to measure the value of capacitors. The ...

AI and human-movement research intersect in a study that enables precise estimation of hand muscle activity from standard video recordings. Using a deep-learning framework trained on a large, ...

Over the past decades, physicists and quantum engineers introduced a wide range of systems that perform desired functions leveraging quantum mechanical effects. These include so-called quantum sensors ...

Some members of the maker community are distraught about Arduino’s new terms of service (ToS), saying that the added rules put the company’s open source DNA at ...

Matt Carey, the co-founder and CEO of Boston-based startup Teradar, loves when people tell him: “I don’t believe you.” That’s “right where we want folks,” he recently told TechCrunch. Carey has spent ...