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LATEST ARTICLES FROM 3D Printing Progress

Glass Injection Moulding
Glass is ubiquitous, from high-tech products in the fields of optics, telecommunications, chemistry and medicine to everyday objects such as bottles and windows. However, shaping glass is mainly based on processes such as melting, grinding or etching...
How a Moving Platform for 3D Printing Can Cut Waste and Costs
3D printing has the potential to revolutionize product design and manufacturing in a vast range of fields—from custom components for consumer products, to 3D printed dental products and bone and medical implants that could save lives. However, ...
Event Summary: LOPEC 2021
On 22 - 24th of March 2021 IDTechEx attended (virtually) the LOPEC conference, organised by the European Organic Electronics Association (OEA). The conference is usually held in Munich, Germany, and is one of the largest conferences on printed/flexib...
Saab Tests 3D Printing for Battlefield Damage Repair
Saab has successfully conducted the trial which marked the first time an exterior 3D printed part has been flown on a Gripen, rather than internal 3D printed components. The purpose of the trial was to test how additive manufacturing could be used in...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Advanced Batteries & Energy Storage Research

World's First Hydrogen Cargo Vessel Set For Paris Debut
The European innovation project Flagships will deploy the world's first commercial cargo transport vessel operating on hydrogen, plying the river Seine in Paris. Commercial operations are set to commence in 2021. The hydrogen cargo transport vessel w...
Batteryless RFID, NFC, RTLS
Many Routes to 1000 Mile Battery Vehicles
It is easy to make 1000-mile battery-electric vehicles, and the effect on market uptake will be profound. For example, a typical city-dweller today might charge only once every two months and vacation where chargers are rare. With solar bodywork ha...
Battery Elimination in Electronics Beginner's Guide
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Artificial Intelligence Research

AI-Powered Backpack Helps Visually Impaired Navigate World
Artificial intelligence developer Jagadish K. Mahendran and his team from the University of Georgia's Institute for Artificial Intelligence designed an AI-powered, voice-activated backpack that can help the visually impaired navigate and perceive the...
Elon Musk's Neuralink Taught a Monkey to Play Pong With its Mind
Neuralink is developing a fully-implanted, wireless, high-channel count brain-machine interface (BMI) with the goal of enabling people with paralysis to directly use their neural activity to operate computers and mobile devices with speed and ease. ...
Screening for Skin Disease on Your Laptop
The founding chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Houston is reporting a new deep neural network architecture that provides early diagnosis of systemic sclerosis (SSc), a rare autoimmune disease marked by hardened or fi...
Layered Materials Grant Sight to Electronic Chips
Researchers at Graphene Flagship partner, the Vienna University of Technology in Austria, have reported an image sensor with an integrated artificial neural network (ANN) capable of learning and classifying images within nanoseconds. The chip is a th...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Electric Vehicles Research

World's First Hydrogen Cargo Vessel Set For Paris Debut
The European innovation project Flagships will deploy the world's first commercial cargo transport vessel operating on hydrogen, plying the river Seine in Paris. Commercial operations are set to commence in 2021. The hydrogen cargo transport vessel w...
NewMotion's Charging Network Joins Electric Juice Network
EnTech pioneer Octopus Energy and NewMotion, a leading European smart EV charging solutions provider, have agreed that customers of the Electric Juice Network (EJN) can now use the public charge points of NewMotion. NewMotion, a Shell group company, ...
Polestar 0 Project: A truly Climate Neutral Car by 2030
In Polestar's first annual review, published on 07 April 2021, the Swedish electric performance car brand announces its moonshot goal to create the first truly climate neutral car by 2030. Environmental experts have warned that offsetting is not su...
Many Routes to 1000 Mile Battery Vehicles
It is easy to make 1000-mile battery-electric vehicles, and the effect on market uptake will be profound. For example, a typical city-dweller today might charge only once every two months and vacation where chargers are rare. With solar bodywork ha...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Global Biotechnology Insights

Elon Musk's Neuralink Taught a Monkey to Play Pong With its Mind
Neuralink is developing a fully-implanted, wireless, high-channel count brain-machine interface (BMI) with the goal of enabling people with paralysis to directly use their neural activity to operate computers and mobile devices with speed and ease. ...
First Human Use of High Bandwidth Wireless Brain Computer Interface
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are an emerging assistive technology, enabling people with paralysis to type on computer screens or manipulate robotic prostheses just by thinking about moving their own bodies. For years, investigational BCIs used in...
Antimicrobial Technologies - How Do They Work?
Antimicrobial technologies such as coatings and textiles containing silver and copper are helping people during the COVID-19 pandemic by ensuring that whatever they touch, whether that is a door handle or their own mask, is free from live SARS-CoV-2 ...
Screening for Skin Disease on Your Laptop
The founding chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Houston is reporting a new deep neural network architecture that provides early diagnosis of systemic sclerosis (SSc), a rare autoimmune disease marked by hardened or fi...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Off Grid Energy Independence

Saudi Arabia's First Utility Scale Renewable Energy Project
ACWA Power, a leading Saudi developer, investor and operator of power generation and water desalination plants, announces the official inauguration of the 300 MW Sakaka PV IPP, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia's first utility scale renewable energy projec...
Batteryless cell phones and wearables
Battery-less IoT, SRWN, LPWAN
Low Cost Solar Powered Water Filter Removes Lead, Other Contaminants
A new invention that uses sunlight to drive water purification could help solve the problem of providing clean water off the grid. The device resembles a large sponge that soaks up water but leaves contaminants - like lead, oil and pathogens - behind...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Printed Electronics World

Big Gains for Low-loss Materials in the 5G Market
5G roll-out is in full swing. 144 5G networks have been launched with 90 more expected in 2021. Over 200 5G devices are now on the market and 5G is expected to reach 1 in 5 people by the end of 2021. The 5G network is split broadly into the sub-6 GHz...
E Ink Announces Next Generation Four-Color E Ink Spectra 3100
E Ink Holdings, a leading innovator of electronic ink technology, today announced the launch of four-color E Ink Spectra™ 3100, a next generation ink platform to support Electronic Shelf Labels (ESL) and retail signage. E Ink is well known fo...
Battery-less IoT, SRWN, LPWAN
Event Summary: LOPEC 2021
On 22 - 24th of March 2021 IDTechEx attended (virtually) the LOPEC conference, organised by the European Organic Electronics Association (OEA). The conference is usually held in Munich, Germany, and is one of the largest conferences on printed/flexib...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Robotics Research

Elon Musk's Neuralink Taught a Monkey to Play Pong With its Mind
Neuralink is developing a fully-implanted, wireless, high-channel count brain-machine interface (BMI) with the goal of enabling people with paralysis to directly use their neural activity to operate computers and mobile devices with speed and ease. ...
First Human Use of High Bandwidth Wireless Brain Computer Interface
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are an emerging assistive technology, enabling people with paralysis to type on computer screens or manipulate robotic prostheses just by thinking about moving their own bodies. For years, investigational BCIs used in...
Amazon's Robot Arms Break Ground in Safety, Technology
Inside an Amazon facility, employees and robot work together to ready products for customers. On one side of the building, yellow tote bins bearing partially completed orders, ride down a conveyor. At the end of the conveyor, a robot arm called a pal...
Scientists Create the Next Generation of Living Robots
Last year, a team of biologists and computer scientists from Tufts University and the University of Vermont (UVM) created novel, tiny self-healing biological machines from frog cells called "Xenobots" that could move around, push a payload,...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Wearable Technology Insights

AI-Powered Backpack Helps Visually Impaired Navigate World
Artificial intelligence developer Jagadish K. Mahendran and his team from the University of Georgia's Institute for Artificial Intelligence designed an AI-powered, voice-activated backpack that can help the visually impaired navigate and perceive the...
Oppo Band Launches in the UK
OPPO has announced the launch of the OPPO Band, the smartphone brand's first wearable device designed to enhance and improve the fitness experience. It's the newest addition to OPPO's smart device line and follows the success of the OPPO Watch series...
Batteryless RFID, NFC, RTLS
Batteryless cell phones and wearables