An accelerometer is used for scientific measurements, not everyday language.

Scientific Instrument

Accelerometers are key in devices that need to sense movement, like phones and game controllers.

Movement Detection

The word 'accelerometer' is technical, mostly found in scientific, engineering, or tech contexts.

Technical Vocabulary

 and recreate those experiences? So the way we solve this problem is by creating a hand-held tool that has many different sensors inside. It has a force sensor, so we can tell how hard you're pushing; it has motion tracking, so we can tell exactly where you've moved it; and it has a vibration sensor, an accelerometer, inside,

Haptography: Digitizing...

 It's like a wireless accelerometer, pedometer. And I want to just give you the results of that testing, because I wanted to understand about the consumer movement. I hope the, by the way, the Phillips Direct Life works better -- I hope so. But this monitors food, it monitors activity and tracks weight.

Eric Topol: The wireless...

 goes wrong and if there's no charge for it how would you charge it so we added a few key things to its core it has an accelerometer so while you can't turn it off by a button or a switch you can set it to go into a low-power state when it's not being worn or when it's not

When jewelry gets smart...

 but the iPhone 4 greatly improved the accelerometer, and so the same measurement produced this graph. Now that gave you a lot of information while someone was typing, and what they did then is used advanced artificial intelligence techniques called machine learning

Avi Rubin: All your...

 accelerometer and so the same measurement produced this graph now that gave you a lot of information while someone was typing and what they did then is used advanced artificial intelligence techniques called machine learning to have a training phase and so

All your devices can be...

 going to open up this honeybee hive I'm going to access the center of the colony and I am going to plunge this accelerometer into the frame and immediately afterwards we will be able to hear the honeybees with headphones or

Beam: The Glastonbury...

 the uptake and diffusion of mobile devices, the exponential improvement in data storage and data processing, and the remarkable improvement in human biometric sensors. This little black dot there is a 3D accelerometer.

Gary Wolf: The...

 south in the morning to the good fishing rent and plunge dive to feed themselves silly on anchovies and sardines and the accelerometer will build some high popping statistics the gannets fold their wings just over

Epic Gannet Journeys PIPE...

 We did this with a contest to help people walk more. We wanted everyone to walk at least 7,000 steps, and we measured their step count with the accelerometer on their cell phone.

Why it's so hard to make...

 and also synthesizing the sound. And vibrato is mapped to the accelerometer, so you can get —