Sensors Providing New Information and Capabilities

Patrick Thibodeau reports that "There's a Rapid Push to Give Tech Something We're Born With: Senses." Thibodeau notes that the accelerometer found in smart phones is a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) sensor, and that projections indicate over ten billion MEMS sensors shall be sold in 2014. Of the five senses (sight, sound, touch, taste and smell) it is the last two that presently stymie development.

-DD