OASIS Smart ring hides a trackpad and it lets you whisper-control your computer

OASIS has unveiled the OASIS 1 smart ring, featuring a built-in microphone and miniature trackpad that lets users whisper ...
IEEE

Novel Area-Changed Capacitive Methods for Simultaneous Displacement Transducing and Force Balance in a Nano-g MEMS Accelerometer

Abstract: High-precision MEMS accelerometers with nano-g resolution are emergent instruments for geophysical applications and proved their competence in terms of functionality. The electromagnetic ...
EDN

Capacitive position sensor with linearized output

An only slightly less simple followup circuit also ratios sensor capacitance to a reference capacitor to measure micrometers…this time linearly. Figure 1 The U1a and U1b cross-coupled Schmidt trigger ...
Mashable

Apple's touchscreen MacBook is definitely happening, report claims

Apple's latest MacBook Pro, released in March, doesn't have a touchscreen, but the next one might. Credit: Apple Apple co-founder Steve Jobs once famously said a touchscreen MacBook was never going to ...
IEEE

Capacitive Coupling Study of the HERD SCD Prototype: Preliminary Results

Abstract: The silicon charge detector (SCD) is a subdetector of the high-energy cosmic radiation detection (HERD) payload. The dynamic range of the silicon microstrip detector can be extended by the ...