Article By: Wayne Palmer

Capacitive sensing isn't just for your smartphone; it also holds promise for products such as medical devices that must come in contact with human skin. Here's how capacitive sensing can be used to determine the quality of the contact between the device's surface and the user's skin.More>>

Article By: Dr. Rajender Thusu, PhD

While the technological evolution of sensors is reflected in sensors getting smarter, smaller, lighter, and cheaper, another key development taking place in the sensors industry is the growth of wireless sensor use in industrial applications.More>>

Article By: Don Welch

Understand how best to use laser displacement sensors to measure the thickness of products at high speeds and from long standoff distances.More>>

The TDH31 and TDH41 from Transducers Direct LLC, Cincinnati, OH, are vacuum and compound-range pressure transducers for OEM or retrofit applications.More>>

The ID1101L from POSIC SA, Neuchatel, Switzerland, is a miniaturized inductive linear encoder with a 9.0 by 6.8 mm encoder head and resolutions from 0.3 mm to 0.3 µm. Outputs are A and B in quadrature.More>>

DRTB Series thermocouple terminal blocks from Omega Engineering Inc., Stamford, CT, come in Type K, J, T, E, N, R/S, and U calibrations.More>>

The FTI-E 1000 from Land Instruments, Dronfield, U.K. provides high-resolution thermal imaging with accurate temperature measurement from 600°C–3000°C.More>>