By Paul Thurrott
While most PC users are probably familiar with the concept of hardware peripherals based on technologies such as USB, there’s a new generation of hardware coming to tomorrow’s Windows-based devices that borrows some ideas from the smartphone world. Called sensors, these hardware components will help Windows 8 devices interact in exciting new ways with the outside world, and today Microsoft provided a hint about how Windows 8 combines some sensor data into a cohesive single interface.

Source: Paul Thurott's SuperSite for Windows