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Modern smartphones use proximity sensors for much more than just turning off screens during calls. These advanced sensors, powered by IR emitters and receivers, detect nearby objects like your hand or ...

The IR sensor array, which on the palm-sized vehicle consisted of just a handful of components, evolved into a PCB-backed bar nearly 0.5 meters wide. Potentiometer tuning was a fiddly affair, but ...

An IR temperature sensor lets a smartphone do fever screening for COVID-19. Ron Amadeo – Jun 4, 2020 5:15 pm | 80 Point the phone at someone's forehead, get a temperature reading.

But the Joy-Con (R)‘s humble sensor is getting its day in the sun with the Nintendo Labo project, which combines the various parts of the Switch console with folded cardboard.Many of the Labo ...

Vishay’s VEML6046X00 RGB IR sensor is AEC-Q100 qualified for use in vehicle displays and interior lighting. This compact device integrates a photodiode, low-noise amplifier, and 16-bit ADC in an ...

The IR motion camera was used for the "1-2-Switch" game that launched in 2017 alongside the console, though it's little known today.Around a year later, "Nintendo Labo" utilized the IR sensor to ...

IR control for your home theater doesn’t have to look ugly. [Rhys Goodwin] put his IR blasters inside his audio equipment. Steam powered windshield wiper.Need we say more? An assembled version ...

Niles' new IR Sensors utilize high Niles Audio Corporation has introduced the custom electronics industry’s first High Fidelity Wideband IR Sensor line. Niles’ new IR Sensors utilize high fidelity ...

When it encounters IR wavelengths, it will prompt mechanical movements within the sensor that will heat it and confirm that there is a source of such light in its vicinity, using plasmonically ...