Smart lights are a great way to enhance home security. Being able to flip on the lights remotely or automatically, you can give the impression that someone is home and expose potential intruders. It’s ...

Motion sensor lights improve outdoor safety while saving on daily electricity costs.Solar-powered lights offer easy ...

Mass production technology for silicon based ultraviolet (UV) light sensors, suitable for smartphones and wearable devices in the Internet of Things (IoT) era, has been developed. Mass production ...

TSL2520/21 ambient light/flicker detection sensors designed to fit in the gap between the display screen and the chassis of a smartphone High optical sensitivity and programmable gain give phone ...

IR sensors rely on an emitter (IR LED) and a detector (photodiode or photoresistor) to measure infrared light and convert it ...

Apple on Tuesday was granted a patent for embedding light-sensing sensors directly into device displays, an important step in creating a full-screen iPhone without the trademark "chin and forehead" ...

As automobiles become more complex and more electronically driven, it's no surprise that more innovative and unique technologies are getting implemented in this space. One application increasing in ...

Sony has unveiled a new type of stacked CMOS sensor that uses "two-layer transistor pixels" to double the light gathering capability. Typical image sensors have the light-sensitive photodiodes and ...

Some HP monitors and laptops, such as the EliteBook, feature an ambient light sensor. This sensor detects the light level of the environment and adjusts the screen's brightness accordingly. If you ...