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iPhone 4 Gyroscope Teardown

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MEMS gyroscopes can feature awesome oscillator designs, such as this Kionix gyroscope. This kind of beauty is invisible to the naked eye, buried deep beneath a black cover.

The micron bars on the images give a sense of their diminutive scale. The thickness of the oscillator shown in the second picture is about a quarter the diameter of the average human hair, or about three red blood cells placed side by side.

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