STMicroelectronics has introduced a multi-spectral ambient light (plus UVA and near-IR) sensor, with flicker detection, in a package smaller than 1mm x 2mm. Applications are foreseen with phone ...

There may be an actual hardware reason why Siri will never come to older Apple hardware. The iPhone 4S, iFixit discovered, has an IR sensor to let Siri know that you have held it up to your face. And ...

Some readers may recall building a line-following robot during their school days. Involving some IR LEDs, perhaps a bit of LEGO, and plenty of trial-and-error, it was fun on a tiny scale. Now imagine ...

The proliferation of iPhone X videos in recent days has led to some concern about a flashing light on the front of the device — but that is just the infrared dot projector being picked up by digital ...