Tesla is developing a way to classify drivers and passengers based on their weight in order to program safer airbag deployment in its vehicles, according to a new patent application. Earlier this week ...

This project investigates the use of wood as a scale, so that people in a wood-frame building can be detected in real time (e.g., for intruder detection and energy conservation) and creating "smart" ...

The prototype of ToSense's floor pad device, which is about twice the size of a normal weight scale La Jolla, California-based toSense, the connected vitals signs monitoring device company formerly ...

I recently had to build an infrared close proximity sensor that could tell if something was dropped in a parcel delivery drop box. After some searching, I ended up using a microcontroller and a piece ...