San Jose, Calif. — AKM Semiconductor said it has developed the industry's first fully integrated 3-axis electronic compass, combining three Hall-effect sensors and a mixed-signal processing chip.

CAMBRIDGE, UK — Honeywell launched the HMC5883, a 3-axis compass chip that provides up to one-degree accuracy with auto calibration, in a 3x3x0.9mm package. The Honeywell HMC5883 surface-mounted chip ...

Ricoh adds a 3-axis compass, called an SE-3 GPS module, to its 500SE GPS camera, such that it displays the position and azimuth of the camera on its liquid crystal display. The military ...

The Instinct is constructed to military standards (MIL-STD-810G) for thermal, shock and water resistance. Garmin International, Inc., announced Instinct, a strong and durable GPS watch with built-in 3 ...

Did you seriously shell out to have ARGONAUT plastered on your license plate? Oh, yeah? Listen up. Garmin has just pushed out a new duo of navigators aimed squarely at you, the Oregon 550 and Oregon ...

This clever little piece of kit is basically a great GPS unit bolted to a 3.2-megapixel camera with 4X zoom. It also has a tri-axial compass so you don’t have to have the unit level to tell your ...

Inspired by the open source project Tau Labs (taulabs.org) and the strong multirotors community the German Quantec Networks GmbH has designed a new flight control for multi rotor helicopters. The ...

October 9, 2012. Spurred by rapid adoption in cellphones and media tablets, the market for combo motion sensors will surge by more than 700% at the end of 2012, according to an IHS iSuppli ...