Sensors in Consumer Electronics That Improve Security and Enhance Overall Interactive Experience

Consumer electronics are electronic equipment used in day-to-day life, such as flat screen TVs, smart phones, personal computers, laptops, and others. Sensors play a crucial role in efficient operation of these devices. Increasing demand of customers for superior quality, slim design, high energy efficiency, and other features have enforced manufacturers to incorporate sensors in consumer electronic devices. Various sensors, such as temperature sensor, speed sensor, electronic sensors, and others have been installed inside laptops, smartphones, game consoles, and other devices to provide enriching experience and convenience to users.

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Various sensors in smartphones:

There are various sensors used in smartphones that provide ease-of-use and security to users. The most basic sensor used in smartphone is accelerometer, which determines the orientation of device among three axes and rotates screen in portrait or landscape mode. Gyroscope also provides information about orientation, but with more precision than accelerometer. Few high-end devices have barometer, a sensor that measures atmospheric pressure and determines the distance above sea level, which in turn, results in enhanced GPS accuracy. A light sensor measures the brightness of ambient light and adjusts the brightness of display. A proximity sensor, which is placed at the earpiece of a phone, sends information to system that user is attending a call and display screen is turned off by system to save energy.

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Apple’s technology and acquisition of patents:

Touch ID on iPhone and iPad enables users to unlock devices with their fingerprints. A user places finger on Home Button and a sensor residing underneath that button determines whether fingerprint matches with stored data. Home Button is made up of sapphire crystal that protects sensor and acts as a lens. Sensor used in Touch ID scans the details of fingerprint with precision and creates a mathematical representation. Then, it compares this representation with stored data to identify the match and unlock the device. In this way, sensors can be used in consumer electronics for security purposes.

Apple has acquired 26 out of 31 original patents of Privaris, a biometric technology firm. These patents are related to fingerprint and touchscreen technology. The acquisition of patents aims to improve Touch ID on iPhone and iPad. Apple is planning to eliminate physical Home Button and introduce a virtual Home Button by creating a multi-touch display with the help of integrated fingerprint technology. As per the reports from CNN, one of the patents acquired from Privaris enable users to use fingerprint technology and touchscreen at the same time. A fingerprint scanner residing beneath the screen can scan the finger through phone’s display. In this way, Apple will be able to create an iPhone with an edge-to-edge screen. Furthermore, Apple uses biometric sensors for authentication to authorize credit card payments using its Apple Pay service.

Sweet Tear Sensor Could Ease Pain of Diabetes

People with diabetes may soon benefit from pain-free blood glucose monitoring, thanks to a sensor that measures the sugar in tears.

Current techniques for glucose self-monitoring involve drawing blood onto disposable test strips and analysing the samples with a separate device. This painful, multi-step approach deters some patients receiving insulin therapy from testing their glucose levels as often as is recommended. A team from Arizona State University in the US believes that its non-invasive method would encourage diabetes patients to test their glucose levels regularly.

The concept of using tear glucose levels as an indicator of blood glucose is not new. However, it has been tricky to realise because of the small volumes involved and the potential for inconsistent sampling, which make it hard to reliably correlate the results with blood glucose concentrations. Jeffrey La Belle and his team have tackled this engineering challenge to design a device which combines a quick and simple sampling approach with a detector that is sensitive enough to give accurate measurements in vivo.

The result is a prototype ‘Touch’ sensor, which requires only 5.8μL of tear fluid. A disposable soft foam tip absorbs tears by touching the eye ‘for a fraction of a second’, its creators explain. La Belle is reassuring that the method is easy to use: ‘If the person has worn contacts, they are touching their eye more than they ever would using our device.’

Dresses That Literally Lit Up the 2016 Met Gala

No contest here: Claire Danes was Cinderella at the 2016 Met Gala. And it Zacwas Posen who was responsible for dreaming up her sweeping pale blue masterpiece of a ball gown and bringing it to life. In true fairy tale fashion—that, by the way, was so in line with the theme "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology"—the dress lit up on the red carpet. 

Woven with fiber optics, the custom Zac Posen dove gray organza gown was the result of "technology meets fantasy" sourced from France. It was truly magical at every single turn

Also magical was Karolina Kurkova's Marchesa masterpiece, which was designed by the design duo Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig, but powered by IBM. Yes, the tech company. The two brands joined forces to create a cognitive dress that exemplified wearable tech at its finest. How it worked: For every tweet that hashtagged #CognitiveDress, IBM's cognitive technology dubbed "Watson" analyzed, broke down the emotion or sentiment behind it (which was assigned a color), and lit up the 150 LED lights embedded in the 3-D flowers embroidered throughout the dress. (The following five sentiments were assigned: joy, passion, excitement, encouragement, and curiosity.) In Jeff Arn's words, the marketing manager of IBM's Watson, what we saw is "a dress that's reactive and responsive to what people are saying about it." We like to think of it as a mood dress. 

"Marchesa is an emotional brand and I feel like this dress is reacting to emotion and it’s changing with emotion. At first what seems like a foreign idea actually seems like the perfect marriage now," Chapman tells us. "The normal perception of technology is far from the Marchesa DNA and in fact, creatively, it was an exciting project. We’re a brand of fantasy and what is more fantastical than technology and where it takes us."
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