We just came across reports that motion-sensing specialist InvenSense has secured a second round of funding, a whopping $11 million, to develop technology for gaming and mobile handsets.

The firm has impressed investors and electronic manufacturers like Sanyo and is set to pursue market opportunities for motion sensing devices in mobile phones and in other consumer electronics. The company's gyroscopic technology is currently in use in digital cameras, camera phones, and computer mice.

Motion sensing tech for the games in your cellphone? Certainly a possibility that's worth looking forward to.

As for the gaming side of things, InvenSense better look towards Microsoft, as the other two contenders in the console wars already have motion sensing tech. It would seem a bit to rash for them to look to third parties for motion sensing this late in the game.

The major reason why people still don't rely too much on cameraphones is because of the poor image quality of the pictures taken. One reason for having such low quality images other than these phones having just 1 to 2-megapixel cameras is the natural hand jitter of the person holding the camera. This often results to a blurred photo.

Fortunately for digital still cameras, this issue has already been addressed long ago with image stabilization systems. Now cameraphones will be getting one soon as InvenSense has come up with an image stabilization system small enough to fit in cameraphones.
 
InvenSense has created the smallest dual-axis gyroscope that will be able to accurately sense the natural hand jitter. This is a single-chip silicon device based on MEMS technology and has wafer-level integration that meets high-performance requirements while also meeting cost and strict size requirements.

Hopefully, this new technology will find its way into cameraphones soon as these devices are also becoming a necessity to a lot of people.