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SmartPhone Sensors Keep An Eye On Crumbling Bridges Could Potentially Save Millions of Lives

Scientists say they can use various sensors on smartphones such as a gyroscope, an accelerometer to measure speed, and camera, or tiny external sensors such as an infrared sensor, to determine the specific makeup and deterioration of a road’s surface in real-time. New technology that uses smartphone-based sensors to monitor crumbing roads and aging bridges could potentially save millions of …

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Future phones will be charged through radio waves

Marty Cooper, the inventor of the cell phone might be under the impression that the smartphone is definitely a mobile computing marvel, but he also thinks that charging your phone continuously is going to be a problem when he tells CNN the following: “Keeping your phone charger around is a real annoyance. And I think it’s going to be an …

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