Why There's A Black Dot On Your iPhone's Camera (And What It Actually Does)

The iPhone is well known for its excellent camera. You may have noticed a black dot near the lenses and wonder what it is ...
CNET

This Handheld Sensor Detects Gluten in Your Food, and You Can Buy It Now

The NIMA Gluten Sensor retails for $220, but a 10% discount is currently available with the code NIMAPRE10. The single-use ...

The Leica Q3 Monochrom produces unmatched black-and-white photo quality, and it's a total extravagance

If you're not all-in for black-and-white photography, the image-quality improvements the Q3 Monohcrom delivers are hardly ...
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These smart home upgrades will eventually pay for themselves

You might associate energy monitoring with smart plugs. While these do exist and there are some excellent uses for them, ...

SwitchBot Smart Home 2.0: Household robots and biometric locks

As part of "Smart Home 2.0", SwitchBot is showcasing biometric locks, a feel-good LED sphere, and an AI robot that adapts its ...

The best gear and gadgets from CES Unveiled 2026

CES 2026 is underway, but we got to see some of the new products before they hit the show floor. Here's the best of what we ...
IEEE

Simple and Accurate Rotary Sensor Based on the Rotary Angle Gauss–Newton Image Matching Algorithm

Abstract: Image-based rotary sensors have the advantages of being simple and low cost and exhibit good robustness to harsh conditions. Existing image-based sensors calculate angle positions by mark ...
IEEE

Visible-to-Mid-Infrared In-Sensor Computing With a Reconfigurable Black Phosphorus Photodiode

Abstract: In-sensor computing offers a solution for communication latency and power consumption in traditional machine vision systems with separate image acquisition and processing. Most sensors with ...