The designer of the MEMS motion sensor in Nintendo's
fabulous game tells how he got into micromachining and where
he's taking it next
........... he wants to make the sensor even smaller, even
cheaper, even tougher. “I want it to fit in all kinds of
places—shoes and textiles, for instance, where it might
be useful for medical monitoring,” he says.
“Then I want to make a three-dimensional gyroscope,
to measure rotation around three different axes. Today,
such products are quite big, a cube 10 centimeters on a
side. We want to do this in less than a 30-millimeter
cube, to serve as an image stabilizer in cameras and to
track a person’s position in the intervals when he can’t
get a GPS signal.”
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Sunday 4 March, 2007 04:49 PM |