Hackers often find uses for pressure sensitive materials, detecting footfalls during walking or keypresses in a synthesizer being two examples. [Marco Reps] decided he’d make a hi-res, body-s… ...

Tactonic Technologies is creating pressure-sensing floor mats that measure how users move within the realm of virtual reality to allow for a more natural sense of motion, and possibly even permit ...

Can sensing technology improve and quantify yoga practice? The makers of a prototype device called the SmartMat, a yoga mat with embedded sensor technology, reckon it can. At the time of writing ...

The SmartMat is a Wi-Fi-enabled mat designed to be placed under a regular doormat to act as a pressure sensor and allow various actions to be triggered depending on who, or what, is on it.

Currently, in order to produce a "pressure map" of the soles of a person's feet, a specialist will have them walk barefoot across a pressure-sensitive floor mat in a foot clinic.

University of Manchester researchers' Gait Analysis and Technologies findings lead to development of pressure-sensitive mats. University of Manchester main building. University of Manchester main ...

[imsolidstate] built his own pressure sensitive mat. It utilizes two discs of copper clad board with a piece of foam in between for each of 64 sensors. As the foam gets compressed, the capacitance … ...

Scientists Patrick Baudisch and his team at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, have created a pressure-sensitive floor that can not only tell where people are from where they’re ...