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This Week in Sensors

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  1. The travel industry adopts biometrics and other sensors
  2. Bell Labs Invents Lensless Camera
  3. Microsampling Air Pollution – could imagine that air quality could quickly become a major metric in defining real estate valuations
  4. Intel creates $100M fund for more ‘human-like’ devices
  5. using microphones to measure stress, lung function, and hand gestures among other things
  6. Build your own beer (or other liquid of choice) flowmeter

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