Your AirPods can detect when you've fallen asleep and pause your media. The AirPods likely use an accelerometer, not a heart rate sensor, to detect when you've fallen asleep. The feature requires a ...

Cut through the noise. Learn which smartwatch metrics actually matter – and how to use them to level up your training without the overwhelm. In Part 1, we broke down how smartwatches gather data ...

This sport accelerometer uses a transmitter with accelerometer that reads data and transmits to a computer with DSP while being used in athletics to determine the wrong foot steps as the athletes run.

High-tech fitness and activity trackers all share one thing: an accelerometer. Here’s how they work — and don’t. Accelerometers record changes in motion relative to the device: up and down, side to ...

For ecologists studying wolverines — mid-sized carnivores found across the boreal forest and Arctic tundra of North America, across Europe's Nordic mainland, and throughout the Russian north — ...

A new study published in npj Digital Medicine suggests that walking data collected from hip-worn accelerometers is viable for assessing the risk of falls in older women. While this specific ...