A naked flame is a complex soup of ionised gases, that possesses an unexpected property. As you might expect with that much ionisation there is some level of electrical conductivity, but the unusual ...

Texas Instruments has announced an integrated +/-1C maximum remote junction temperature sensor and local temperature sensor, designed to monitor thermal diodes found in CPUs, microprocessors, graphics ...

Apple's patent application for "Organic light emitting diode having photodiodes" describes a setup that places photo sensors above, below, or in line with an OLED array to detect and compensate for ...

Backside-illuminated CMOS sensors can be found in everything from the Apple iPhone 4 and HTC Evo 4G to camcorders and point-and-shoots. Here's why you want one--and why you don't. Joshua Goldman ...