Face Recognition Chip revolutionizing Smartphone Security
https://www.electronics-lab.com/face-recognition-chip-revolutionizing-smartphone-security/
Back in 2007 Apple released the first generation of iPhone which is considered as the first smartphone as those we use today. Before that, PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) dominated the market and some even included network connectivity, the ability to send and receive calls, and password unlocking. The iPhone inherited the ability to be unlocked […]
Micro-spectrometer Sensor Will Let You Check Air Quality Or Blood Sugar – Using Smartphone
https://www.electronics-lab.com/micro-spectrometer-sensor/
Now you can use your smartphone to check how clean the air is, measure the freshness of food or even the level of your blood sugar. This has never been so easy. All credit goes to the new spectrometer sensor which is developed at the Eindhoven University of Technology and can be easily attached to a […]
MediaTek Sensio, is a 6-in-1 biosensor module for smartphones
https://www.electronics-lab.com/mediatek-sensio-6-1-biosensor-module-smartphones/
Smartphones in recent times have contributed to the growth of the medical sensing industries with a major success in the usage of a smartphone camera and flash to detect heart rate. Specialized Apps installed on the phone can use the phone inbuilt camera and flash to read an individual heart rate with high accuracy but […]
ZeroPhone, A Raspberry Pi-Based Open Source Smartphone
https://www.electronics-lab.com/zerophone-a-raspberry-pi-based-open-source-smartphone/
Raspberry Pi is one of the most helpful innovations in the hardware industry. It has helped beginners and children learn programming and allowed the makers to develop powerful and cheap DIY projects. “ZeroPhone” is a new DIY smartphone that is built based on Raspberry Pi and cost about only $50. ZeroPhone is an open source, Linux-powered smartphone, […]
Next-generation smartphone battery inspired by the gut
https://www.electronics-lab.com/next-generation-smartphone-battery-inspired-gut/
A new prototype of a lithium-sulphur battery – which could have five times the energy density of a typical lithium-ion battery – overcomes one of the key hurdles preventing their commercial development by mimicking the structure of the cells which allow us to absorb nutrients. @ cam.ac.uk This gets us a long way through the […]
Control an electrical appliance with your smartphone – WiFi
https://www.electronics-lab.com/control-electrical-appliance-smartphone-wifi/
Ruben Marc Speybrouck show us how to control a device using your tablet or smartphone. To achieve that he used arduino, blynk and a wemos / ESP8266 board. In this tutorial we will be making something I call a wifi controlled ac switch. (But iy also works for DC applications that are powered by a […]
Android app turns smartphones into a seismic network
https://www.electronics-lab.com/android-app-turns-smartphones-into-a-seismic-network/
Researchers at UC Berkeley (California) have developed an Android app that can detect vibrations from earthquakes using the standard sensors integrated into smartphones. Android app turns smartphones into a seismic network – [Link]
Measure Stress Levels Using a Smartphone
https://www.electronics-lab.com/measure-stress-levels-using-a-smartphone/
Researchers have developed a smartphone device that measures the cortisol concentration in saliva in order to define your stress levels. The new test is done in under 10 minutes and there is no need to send a salvina sample on a lab. The cost for each measurement is less than 5$ and the smartphone uses its […]
Smartphone Solar charger card
https://www.electronics-lab.com/smartphone-solar-charger-card/
Here is a nice idea of a business card solar smartphone charger with USB plug. The charger is 3mm thick and can provide 50mA @ 5V Smartphone Solar charger card – [Link]
Geiger Backpack with Intel Edison
https://www.electronics-lab.com/geiger-backpack-with-intel-edison/
Geiger Backpack is a device that measures ambient radioactivity and GPS position and saves them on a cloud database using your smartphone as a WiFi hotspot. Our project is a portable device powered by an Intel Edison and equipped with a GPS receiver and a Geiger Tube, a sensor able to detect radioactivity. Our device […]