This affordable little device does double duty by controlling your smart lights hands-free and offering peace of mind while ...

We’d seen it done with buttons, switches, gestures, capacitive touch, and IR remote, but never like this. [electron_plumber] made an LED that can be blown out like a candle, and amazingly it … ...

Ikea adds HomeKit support to its inexpensive Shortcut Button and Motion Sensor, making them more much useful than with Home Smart alone. The effects are cumulative, letting you pick and choose the ...

Then, one of the tristate pins could be set to input mode to read the LED as a sensor. As suggested by the team at MERS, LEDs can be used as sensors in all kinds of innovative applications.

Aqara’s Matter-over-Thread P2 sensor knows when a window or door is open to help with home security and automations. Features like a shortcut button can be unlocked when paired with an M3 Hub ...

The idea of a Touch ID sensor embedded into the power button has always seemed unlikely, due to the technology Apple uses. Although slim fingerprint readers exist, ...

Well, it's not a rumor any longer -- Apple has just confirmed that the iPhone 5S will feature a 500ppi fingerprint sensor right in the 5S' home button.