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• n  any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner

• The chief problem with the sensor technology is how to find an inexpensive way of transmitting the sensors' data to computers.
• That business is pliable, flexible sensors.
• Those sensors detect the minute electrical charges generated by nerve pathways in the brain when thinking occurs.

• detector
• sensing element

News & Articles

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• New ‘Electronic Nose’ Nano-Sensor Being Developed for Food Safety, Health
  RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — The “electronic nose” sensor developed by a University of California, Riverside engineering professor, and being commercialized by Innovation Economy Crowd (ieCrowd), will be further refined to detect deadly pathogens including toxic pesticides in the global food supply chain, according to a recently signed product development and distribution agreement.
  June 15, 2013 - Highland Community News
• Sensor Variability Helps Build a Better E-Nose
  Thirty-two-sensor array reliably sniffs out differences between apples and pears
  June 14, 2013 - IEEE Spectrum
• Flexible plastic camera sensor headed to smartphones, wearables and more
  Bendable cameras and sensors that can flex around corners could be on the horizon, with the first flexible image sensor built on plastic being developed by Plastic Logic and ISORG. The 40 x 40 mm sensor uses a flexible, transmissive backplane created by Plastic Logic, on top of which ISORG layers an organic photodetector material Read The Full Story
  June 13, 2013 - SlashGear

Quotes

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• Satoru Iwata in Fudzilla
  In an interview with a Japanese newspaper, Mr. Iwata said how the next-generation DS will feature:"highly detailed graphics, and it will be necessary to have a sensor with the ability to read the movements of people playing."
• Stephen Breyer in USA Today
  In a complicated dispute this term over rules for when the modification of an invention can win a patent, Justice Stephen Breyer complained that the test may be flawed and offered his own possibly patent-worthy idea: "I have a sensor on my garage...