A device that detects the amount of light in the vicinity. An ambient light sensor may be built into a smartphone or tablet to adjust the screen brightness based on the available light.

The reason this is surprisingly low is thanks to two energy-centric features. The first is a set of ambient light sensors that will adjust the screen's brightness. If it gets dark for about 30 ...

Gui Rambo, the maker or AirBuddy, the Bluetooth headphone and peripheral menu bar utility that I’ve covered before, has released a new app called DarkModeBuddy that can automatically switch between ...

A new rectangular ambient light sensor combines high sensitivity, IR detection, and ultra-low power in a compact ...

Instead, it pulls power from ambient light and radio waves. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More from Tech Researchers at the University of Washington have created a cell phone that uses so ...