Our phones contain a disturbing amount of information about us. While calls, messages, app usage and location logs have all been used to profile users, phone accelerometers contain key information, ...

Did you know your smartphone’s accelerometer can be used to steal keystrokes from a nearby keyboard? Using an iPhone 4 and some pirate software they wrote, a team of researchers at Georgia Tech has ...

It's a pattern that no doubt repeats itself daily in hundreds of millions of offices around the world: People sit down, turn on their computers, set their mobile phones on their desks and begin to ...

In a study published this week, researchers showed results in their exploration of smartphone accelerometers used to sense alcohol impairment in users. In "Preliminary Study Using Smartphone ...

North Andover, Mass. — The MXA2500U MEMS accelerometer/sensor has been unveiled for mobile phone designs downloading web pages, maps, and more. Right now, mobile phones download maps or web sites that ...

Just occasionally, a bit of gear comes out that makes you wonder just whose side technology is on. And none more than this cell-phone idea from the R&D geeks at KDDI Corporation, one of Japan’s ...

Researchers at Georgia Tech and MIT have developed a proof of concept to demonstrate that it is possible to record a computer user’s keystrokes using an iPhone 4’s accelerometer. The researchers ...

A team of researchers has discovered a way to log keystrokes from computers simply by placing an iPhone 4 near a user's keyboard and monitoring the keyboard's vibrations. (Broken iPhone 4 image by ...

A few weeks ago we confirmed reports that the iPhone 5S motion sensors were embarrassingly off. Some enterprising devs have investigated the problem, and figured out that at its root, it’s indeed a ...

A seismograph in Hawaii recorded the seismic waves of the 2011 Japan earthquake. Photo: Joe Parks Many new cell phones are bristling with an array of sensors—a compass, a gyroscope, a GPS sensor and ...

I should note that this is unlikely to turn up in your phone anytime soon. The problem lies in the detection system: that laser was a relatively expensive device, and if you want your accelerometer ...