Three axes in one device [News Briefs].

To orient themselves properly, smartphones require not just GPS capability but also an electronic compass, an accelerometer, and increasingly, digital gyroscopes, which can sense changes in an object's axis of rotation. up until now, gyroscopes measured movement around the three axes with three...

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Published in:IEEE spectrum 47, 5 (2010).
Main Author: Jones, W.D
Format: Article
Language:English