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The Drawing Board - Engineering with Attitude

Wii Future Technology

 
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.”

Sunday 4 March, 2007 04:49 PM
 
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