This easy-to-build walking reindeer can be constructed with only a bow motor, battery, wires, and a few other parts.

Smart home devices are only as useful as their ability to detect what's happening around them. I spent years just using voice ...

Presence/motion sensors are one of the best ways to make automations feel more natural, but most of them run on batteries and eventually have to be swapped. That’s one of the main reasons I really ...

The potential of using low-energy light to shape ferroelectric thin films for micro devices is advancing with an international team of researchers most recently reporting success with "photostriction.

INJURED. THAT’S RIGHT. NO INJURIES. AND I WANT TO SHOW YOU ALL WHAT’S LEFT OUT HERE OF THE SCENE. BEHIND ME IS ONE OF THE BUILDINGS RIGHT HERE INVOLVED IN THAT FIRE THAT COLLAPSED. JUST LOOK AT ALL ...

Contrary to popular belief, most property crimes—including burglaries and package theft—happen during the day, not under cover of darkness. But night still brings unique challenges: fewer people ...

UC Riverside researchers have unveiled a powerful new imaging technique that exposes how cutting-edge materials used in solar panels and light sensors convert light into electricity—offering a path to ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. Light sensors detect the presence or absence of light, and the intensity of that light. These sensors then convert light energy into an electrical ...

Techland, the developer of the popular survival horror series Dying Light, has announced the cancellation of two upcoming, unspecified projects. This announcement comes during a time of struggle for ...

Dutch tech scaleup Optics11 has launched an underwater monitoring system that uses light waves to “listen” for the presence of foreign objects. Called OptiBarrier, the system can detect enemy ...