Portland State barometer reaches for the sky, and the record books Discarded glass pipes, off-the-shelf trusses and a vision propelled PSU instrument tech Tom Bennett to build a 40+foot barometer in ...

When I wrote about the hidden sensors on Android phones, the two sensors that stood out the most were a magnetometer that turns your phone into a metal detector and a barometer, which is supposed to ...

Physicists like to share the legend of a professor who asked students how they might determine the height of a building using a barometer. The story goes on to list some of the ways you might do that.

For many in the tech arena, the iPhone has been, and likely always will be, the gold standard for handheld mobile devices. The smartphones were the very definition of "game changer" when they debuted ...

Startup Barometer wants to help advertisers identify brand-safety issues in podcast shows. Its technology tracks what is said in more than 10,000 shows. Barometer is looking to potentially also launch ...

Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus is the most high-profile device to date to feature a barometer amongst its guts. Seems strange that a atmospheric pressure measurement would be crammed in a device where space ...