Comet Industries explores how advanced presence detection technologies can enhance efficiency of rail operations.

Animal behaviour arises from computations in neuronal circuits, but our understanding of these computations has been frustrated by the lack of detailed synaptic connection maps, or connectomes. For ...

The eye’s retina does more than register images the way film or a digital camera detector does. To allow it to begin analyzing an image, the retina has specialized nerve cells that respond to motion ...

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The sensor enables features like precise head orientation tracking, optical/electronic image stabilization, and activity/inactivity tracking.

When a viewer moves relative to the environment, the visual image projected onto the retina changes accordingly. Within small regions of the retina and for short durations, this motion is commonly ...

Fruit fly eyes have a different structure than ours do, but they serve similar functions: to detect light from the environment and send that information to the brain. The part of the fly’s brain that ...

One of the most common first sensors people buy for their home is a motion sensor. But in almost all cases, you want a ...

Ever wanted to know what your dog was doing all day without having to set up a complicated video camera system? People Power, a Palo Alto software company, has released a mobile app that can easily ...