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IDTechEx writes the following free web journals which provide readers with a daily update of the latest industry developments. The journals cover the latest industry news and research with broad coverage of topics.

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LATEST ARTICLES FROM 3D Printing Progress

Hybrid 3D Printing Method Will Add a Fourth Dimension to 3D Printing
A new chemical process for additive manufacturing suggests exciting possibilities for 4D printed components - such as properties that change over time. Researchers at Loughborough University have developed a hybrid method called Material Treatment ...
Ultimaker Announces PVA Removal Station, Enabling Fast Post-Processing
The PVA Removal Station enables 3D printer users to develop products faster by allowing quick and effective elimination of support material. Ultimaker, a leader in professional 3D printing, announced during its inaugural bi-annual Showcase event th...
Join the Upcoming IDTechEx Webinar on In-Mold Electronics
Webinar Title: In-Mold Electronics Offers Efficient Manufacturing of Embedded Functionality Date: Thursday 21 October 2021 Presenter: Dr Matthew Dyson, Senior Technology Analyst - IDTechEx Space is limited - reserve your seat today! Greater int...
Accelerating the Discovery of New Materials for 3D printing
A new machine-learning system costs less, generates less waste, and can be more innovative than manual discovery methods. The growing popularity of 3D printing for manufacturing all sorts of items, from customized medical devices to affordable home...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Advanced Batteries & Energy Storage Research

FREYR Announces Joint Venture with Koch Strategic Platforms
FREYR Battery, a developer of clean, next-generation battery cell production capacity, has announced the formation of a joint venture in the United States between Koch Strategic Platforms and FREYR. The JV, which has a 50%/50% ownership structure, ha...
Is it Finally Time for Printed Temperature Sensors?
Think of a temperature sensor - and a traditional glass thermometer, or perhaps a small thermistor would probably spring to mind. However, a new class of temperature sensors is rapidly emerging that offers spatial resolution together with a thin-film...
ABB and Lilium Revolutionize Charging Infrastructure for Air Travel
ABB E-mobility and Lilium NV have announced plans for ABB to provide the charging infrastructure for Lilium's high speed regional air network, scheduled for commercial launch in 2024. Lilium has announced planned launch networks in Florida, Germany, ...
Rethinking Smart Cities: Setbacks and How to Move Forward
Bill Gates backed a Belmont smart city in the Arizona desert - little has happened beyond a land purchase. Authorities demand that the Colorado river's diminishing water supply is unharmed. Arizona suffers historic water shortage. The Southwest and m...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Advanced Materials World

Will Huawei Survive? A Comprehensive Analysis from IDTechEx
Under US sanctions, Huawei's revenue in the first half of 2021 was RMB 320.4 billion, which despite COVID-19 is a 38% decrease from RMB 454 billion in the same period last year; Xu Zhijun, Huawei's rotating chairman, pointed out that Huawei's goal is...
Is it Finally Time for Printed Temperature Sensors?
Think of a temperature sensor - and a traditional glass thermometer, or perhaps a small thermistor would probably spring to mind. However, a new class of temperature sensors is rapidly emerging that offers spatial resolution together with a thin-film...
Join the Upcoming IDTechEx Webinar on In-Mold Electronics
Webinar Title: In-Mold Electronics Offers Efficient Manufacturing of Embedded Functionality Date: Thursday 21 October 2021 Presenter: Dr Matthew Dyson, Senior Technology Analyst - IDTechEx Space is limited - reserve your seat today! Greater int...
Panasonic Launches Novel Substrate Film for Soft Printed Electronics
Panasonic Industrial Devices Sales Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America, through its Electronic Materials Division, is proud to introduce BEYOLEX, a new thermoset stretchable film for printed electronics. This novel ...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Aerospace Technology Journal

ABB and Lilium Revolutionize Charging Infrastructure for Air Travel
ABB E-mobility and Lilium NV have announced plans for ABB to provide the charging infrastructure for Lilium's high speed regional air network, scheduled for commercial launch in 2024. Lilium has announced planned launch networks in Florida, Germany, ...
World's First Lung Delivery by Drone
Unither Bioelectronics has set its sights on transforming the way we think of transplantable organ transportation, either donor organs or manufactured organs. In September 2021, in a proof-of-concept flight, the company transferred donor lungs for tr...
Successful First Public Flight of Volocopter's VoloDrone
Volocopter's electric heavy-lift drone VoloDrone conducted its first public flight today. Together with the international logistics leader DB Schenker, Volocopter, a pioneer of urban air mobility (UAM), demonstrated VoloDrone's seamless integration i...
Saving Koalas Through Facial Recognition
Once limited to science-fiction, drones and facial recognition technology are now being harnessed to help save Australia's koalas. A Flinders University College of Science and Engineering research project with conservation charity Koala Life and th...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM AgTech Progress

A Winning Solution for Autonomous Farming Safety
Agri-tech company Agribot AI has won the Agri-EPI and Hands Free Farm (HFF) hackathon tackling safety and security concerns around autonomous agricultural vehicles. A hackathon funded by Smart Agri-Hubs, Agri-EPI Centre in collaboration with Hands ...
Rethinking Smart Cities: Setbacks and How to Move Forward
Bill Gates backed a Belmont smart city in the Arizona desert - little has happened beyond a land purchase. Authorities demand that the Colorado river's diminishing water supply is unharmed. Arizona suffers historic water shortage. The Southwest and m...
New Smart City Materials and Formats
A new MIT study finds that the number of visitors to any location decreases as the inverse square of travel distance. Since affordable accommodation is distant from a city center, this and web shopping means that city centers are emptying. Cities see...
First-Ever Climate-Friendly Tractor
AUGA group, Europe's largest vertically integrated organic food producer, has introduced the world's first hybrid biomethane and electric tractor for professional farm use - AUGA M1. Until now, sustainable fuel tractors available on the market have n...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Artificial Intelligence Research

Will Huawei Survive? A Comprehensive Analysis from IDTechEx
Under US sanctions, Huawei's revenue in the first half of 2021 was RMB 320.4 billion, which despite COVID-19 is a 38% decrease from RMB 454 billion in the same period last year; Xu Zhijun, Huawei's rotating chairman, pointed out that Huawei's goal is...
First Image-Recognition AI for Computer-Aided Engineering
Hexagon's Manufacturing Intelligence division has today announced the release of ODYSSEE A-Eye, a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that enhances Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) for a multitude of industry solutions without the need for complex ...
The Biggest Challenge for Autonomous Vehicles
It is widely accepted that around 95% of road traffic accidents are caused by human drivers. We are fallible, distracted, and potentially dangerous. Our liability behind the wheel is not just the problem of other human drivers, but can also be diffic...
A Winning Solution for Autonomous Farming Safety
Agri-tech company Agribot AI has won the Agri-EPI and Hands Free Farm (HFF) hackathon tackling safety and security concerns around autonomous agricultural vehicles. A hackathon funded by Smart Agri-Hubs, Agri-EPI Centre in collaboration with Hands ...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Displays Journal

Micro-LED Displays and Their Opportunities for Automotive Applications
Dr Xiaoxi He from IDTechEx gave a tutorial presentation on "Micro-LED Displays and Their Opportunities for Automotive Applications" in Vehicle Displays & Interfaces September 28-29, 2021. The corresponding slides and recordings are show...
Ynvisible and PragmatIC Partner to Deliver Flexible Display Modules
Ynvisible Interactive Inc, a  fast-growing firm in the Internet of Things (IoT) market, and PragmatIC Semiconductor, a leader in flexible electronics, have entered into non-binding Technology Partnership and Supply Agreement, for a period of 3 ...
LG Display, Kakao Mobility Smart Parking Lot with Transparent OLEDs
LG Display announced its new partnership with Kakao Mobility, a Korean mobility platform company, to build a smart parking lot in Seoul, Korea, equipped with the company's advanced Transparent OLED displays. Through LG Display's cutting-edge Transp...
Ynvisible Interactive Inc Agreement with Display Logic
Ynvisible Interactive Inc announced it has signed an exclusive North American distribution agreement with Display Logic to offer its electrochromic displays (ECD), drivers, driving protocols, and ECD kits to customers in the United States and Canada....
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Electric Motors Research

Join the Upcoming IDTechEx Webinar on Electric Motor Technologies
Webinar Title: Electric Motor Technologies: The Next EV Revolution? Date: Thursday 28 October 2021 Presenter: Dr James Edmondson, Senior Technology Analyst - IDTechEx Space is limited - reserve your seat today! Electric motors truly are the dri...
Axial Flux Motors: Technology and Players
In-wheel Motors: Technology and Players
General Motors to Outline Plans for Decade of Growth
General Motors Co meets with investors today and tomorrow to detail its plans to double annual revenues by the end of the decade while growing EBIT-adjusted margins as it transitions to an all-electric future. GM has already announced plans to invest...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Electric Vehicles Research

The Biggest Challenge for Autonomous Vehicles
It is widely accepted that around 95% of road traffic accidents are caused by human drivers. We are fallible, distracted, and potentially dangerous. Our liability behind the wheel is not just the problem of other human drivers, but can also be diffic...
Volvo Group Launches World's First Vehicle Using Fossil-Free Steel
Volvo Group has revealed the world-first vehicle made of fossil-free steel from SSAB. Volvo announced that more vehicles will follow in 2022 in what will be a series of concept vehicles and components using fossil-free steel from SSAB. The machine,...
INEOS Launches Hydrogen Campaign
Hydrogen is a fabulous, clean source of energy that can be used as both a raw material for industry and as a power source for transport and the home. It has a massive role to play in lowering the UK's greenhouse gas emissions and INEOS is committed t...
A Winning Solution for Autonomous Farming Safety
Agri-tech company Agribot AI has won the Agri-EPI and Hands Free Farm (HFF) hackathon tackling safety and security concerns around autonomous agricultural vehicles. A hackathon funded by Smart Agri-Hubs, Agri-EPI Centre in collaboration with Hands ...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Food Technology Research

A Winning Solution for Autonomous Farming Safety
Agri-tech company Agribot AI has won the Agri-EPI and Hands Free Farm (HFF) hackathon tackling safety and security concerns around autonomous agricultural vehicles. A hackathon funded by Smart Agri-Hubs, Agri-EPI Centre in collaboration with Hands ...
Rethinking Smart Cities: Setbacks and How to Move Forward
Bill Gates backed a Belmont smart city in the Arizona desert - little has happened beyond a land purchase. Authorities demand that the Colorado river's diminishing water supply is unharmed. Arizona suffers historic water shortage. The Southwest and m...
New Smart City Materials and Formats
A new MIT study finds that the number of visitors to any location decreases as the inverse square of travel distance. Since affordable accommodation is distant from a city center, this and web shopping means that city centers are emptying. Cities see...
First-Ever Climate-Friendly Tractor
AUGA group, Europe's largest vertically integrated organic food producer, has introduced the world's first hybrid biomethane and electric tractor for professional farm use - AUGA M1. Until now, sustainable fuel tractors available on the market have n...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Global Biotechnology Insights

New Fibres Make Breath-Regulating Garments
'Robotic' textiles could help performers and athletes train their breathing, and potentially help patients recovering from postsurgery breathing changes. A new kind of fiber developed by researchers at MIT and in Sweden can be made into clothing th...
First Supply of Consistent, Scalable, Human Muscle Cells for Research
Cell coding company bit.bio has launched a new product, ioSkeletal Myocytes. It's the first product of its kind that provides physiologically relevant human skeletal muscle cells that are reliable, reproducible and consistent at scale. Access to ioSk...
Fertility Tech Addressing Trends in Declining Fertility
Is it Finally Time for Printed Temperature Sensors?
Think of a temperature sensor - and a traditional glass thermometer, or perhaps a small thermistor would probably spring to mind. However, a new class of temperature sensors is rapidly emerging that offers spatial resolution together with a thin-film...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Green Technology Progress

World's Largest Wind Farm Fully Operational
The world's largest floating windfarm is now fully commissioned and delivering green electricity to Scotland's grid. The 50 MW Kincardine Offshore Windfarm is located 15 km off the coast of Aberdeenshire, in water depths ranging from 60m to 80m. Th...
Volvo Group Launches World's First Vehicle Using Fossil-Free Steel
Volvo Group has revealed the world-first vehicle made of fossil-free steel from SSAB. Volvo announced that more vehicles will follow in 2022 in what will be a series of concept vehicles and components using fossil-free steel from SSAB. The machine,...
INEOS Launches Hydrogen Campaign
Hydrogen is a fabulous, clean source of energy that can be used as both a raw material for industry and as a power source for transport and the home. It has a massive role to play in lowering the UK's greenhouse gas emissions and INEOS is committed t...
BayWa r.e. Acquires Second Lanarkshire Wind Farm Site
BayWa r.e. has completed the acquisition of the project rights for Broken Cross Wind Farm in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. BayWa r.e. purchased the project, which is located on a restored coal mine, from developer Brockwell Energy. Broken Cross is a 4...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Healthtech Progress

New Fibres Make Breath-Regulating Garments
'Robotic' textiles could help performers and athletes train their breathing, and potentially help patients recovering from postsurgery breathing changes. A new kind of fiber developed by researchers at MIT and in Sweden can be made into clothing th...
First Supply of Consistent, Scalable, Human Muscle Cells for Research
Cell coding company bit.bio has launched a new product, ioSkeletal Myocytes. It's the first product of its kind that provides physiologically relevant human skeletal muscle cells that are reliable, reproducible and consistent at scale. Access to ioSk...
Fertility Tech Addressing Trends in Declining Fertility
Is it Finally Time for Printed Temperature Sensors?
Think of a temperature sensor - and a traditional glass thermometer, or perhaps a small thermistor would probably spring to mind. However, a new class of temperature sensors is rapidly emerging that offers spatial resolution together with a thin-film...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Home Technologies World

A Robot That Finds Lost Items
A busy commuter is ready to walk out the door, only to realize they've misplaced their keys and must search through piles of stuff to find them. Rapidly sifting through clutter, they wish they could figure out which pile was hiding the keys. Resear...
The Hidden Potential of High Efficiency Solar Cells
One of the greatest challenges of solar cells is the Shockley-Queisser limit, the assumption that there is a fundamental limit to the amount of energy a solar cell can absorb and convert into usable energy. University of Oklahoma physicist Ian Seller...
5G From 2022 Onward: Deployment Status, Industry Challenges, & Market
5G is paving the way for a fully digitalized and connected world. The past two years have seen many new field trials and an accelerating number of commercial rollouts. Moreover, 5G is starting to be adopted in a wide range of industries, from manufac...
Metamaterial Routers, Relays, Phones
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Laser Technology Research

Cypris Materials Announces Collaboration with BASF
Cypris Materials announced its partnership with BASF Corporation (BASF). This partnership will focus on the development and applications of brilliant, paintable, structural color. "Our partnership with BASF, the world's largest chemical compan...
Competing Short-Wavelength Infra-Red Sensing Technologies
The widespread adoption of machine vision makes image sensors }} that can detect light outside the visible spectrum increasingly useful, since the aim is to augment human sight rather than duplicate it. For example, imaging in the short-wave infra-re...
Upcoming Webinar: Cement and Concrete Face the Perfect Storm
Webinar Title: Cement and Concrete Face the Perfect Storm Date: Wednesday 27 October 2021 Presenter: Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman - IDTechEx Space is limited - reserve your seat today! This webinar explains how the industry of cement, concrete and...
New Smart City Materials and Formats
A new MIT study finds that the number of visitors to any location decreases as the inverse square of travel distance. Since affordable accommodation is distant from a city center, this and web shopping means that city centers are emptying. Cities see...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Mining Tech Research

Queensland Announces First Vanadium Mine
A vanadium mine in Queensland's remote northwest will pioneer production of a globally sought-after new economy mineral, supporting up to 400 regional jobs. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, Resources Minister Scott Stewart and Multicom Resources' chief...
Wärtsilä Energy Storage Solution to Support Decarbonisation of Mining
The technology group Wärtsilä will supply a 9.2 MW / 8.7MWh energy storage system to Zenith Energy, an Independent Power Producer (IPP) in Australia. Zenith sells the electrical power it produces to some of the world's largest mining companies with o...
IDTechEx Dissects the Market for Solid-state Batteries in New Report
IDTechEx has recently launched the new version of their market research report on solid-state batteries - " Solid-State and Polymer Batteries 2021-2031: Technology, Forecasts, Players ". This report identifies key players within the market;...
Join the Upcoming Webinar: Mining Electrification - New Directions
Webinar Title: Mining Electrification - New Directions Date: Thursday 26 August 2021 Presenter: Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman, IDTechEx Space is limited - reserve your seat today! There is consensus that all of the tens of thousands of mines in the...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Off Grid Energy Independence

World's Largest Wind Farm Fully Operational
The world's largest floating windfarm is now fully commissioned and delivering green electricity to Scotland's grid. The 50 MW Kincardine Offshore Windfarm is located 15 km off the coast of Aberdeenshire, in water depths ranging from 60m to 80m. Th...
Volvo Group Launches World's First Vehicle Using Fossil-Free Steel
Volvo Group has revealed the world-first vehicle made of fossil-free steel from SSAB. Volvo announced that more vehicles will follow in 2022 in what will be a series of concept vehicles and components using fossil-free steel from SSAB. The machine,...
INEOS Launches Hydrogen Campaign
Hydrogen is a fabulous, clean source of energy that can be used as both a raw material for industry and as a power source for transport and the home. It has a massive role to play in lowering the UK's greenhouse gas emissions and INEOS is committed t...
BayWa r.e. Acquires Second Lanarkshire Wind Farm Site
BayWa r.e. has completed the acquisition of the project rights for Broken Cross Wind Farm in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. BayWa r.e. purchased the project, which is located on a restored coal mine, from developer Brockwell Energy. Broken Cross is a 4...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Power Electronics World

Thermal Management in the Silicon Carbide Revolution
For electric vehicles (EVs), efficiency is the name of the game. There are many avenues to improving efficiency, especially within the drivetrain with one of the key areas being power electronics. Of these components, the main inverter is the highest...
Upcoming Webinar - Power Electronics: The Key to Unlocking EV Range
Webinar Title: Power Electronics: The Key to Unlocking Electric Vehicle Range Date: Thursday 7 October 2021 Presenter: Luke Gear, Senior Technology Analyst - IDTechEx Space is limited - reserve your seat today! Electric vehicles are taking the ...
Electric Vehicles Taking Over the Roads, Seas and Skies
World Electric Vehicle Day is here, and, as an industry analyst, it presents a great occasion to take a retrospective look at the past decade of innovation and disruption. Indeed, with cars alone, annual sales are on pace to surpass five million st...
Tesla's Innovative Power Electronics: The Silicon Carbide Inverter
Like the Beatles in the 60s, Tesla has arguably achieved the feat of being simultaneously the best and most popular at what they do. As the IDTechEx report " Electric Vehicles: Land, Sea & Air 2021-2041 " discusses, Tesla enters a new m...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Printed Electronics World

Will Huawei Survive? A Comprehensive Analysis from IDTechEx
Under US sanctions, Huawei's revenue in the first half of 2021 was RMB 320.4 billion, which despite COVID-19 is a 38% decrease from RMB 454 billion in the same period last year; Xu Zhijun, Huawei's rotating chairman, pointed out that Huawei's goal is...
New Fibres Make Breath-Regulating Garments
'Robotic' textiles could help performers and athletes train their breathing, and potentially help patients recovering from postsurgery breathing changes. A new kind of fiber developed by researchers at MIT and in Sweden can be made into clothing th...
Creative Materials Temperature Sensing Ink, Coating And Adhesive
Creative Materials introduces 129-06 temperature sensing conductive ink, adhesive and coating in either one component (C) or two component (A/B) versions. The resistance of this product has a linear response to temperature between -40ºC and 80<&>o...
PragmatIC Semiconductor Secures $80 Million Funding
PragmatIC Semiconductor, a world leader in flexible electronics, is proud to announce that it has secured $80 million of Series C funding. This scale-up investment will be used to build a second FlexLogIC fab in the North East of England, to meet the...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Recycling Technology Progress

Researchers Breathe New Life into Paper Books with the Magic Bookmark
The University of Surrey has developed a new, cost-effective, ecological solution for augmenting the printed page with rich, up-to-date digital content. The development overcomes one of the most significant advantages e-books have over paper books, h...
Recyclus Group Ltd to Take Delivery of Lead Acid Battery Breaker
Technology Minerals, the company developing the UK's first sustainable circular economy for battery metals, is delighted to announce that its subsidiary, the battery-recycling company Recyclus Group Ltd, in which the Group has a substantial economic ...
Major Manufacturer Molex Company Profile by IDTechEx
Molex is a major manufacturer of printed electronics, flexible circuitry, sensor solutions, and user interface for a wide variety of applications. IDTechEx caught up with marketing analyst Kylie Pessetti of the Printed Circuit Solutions business unit...
UL and Hyundai to Advance Second Life Battery Safety, Performance
UL and Hyundai Motor Company have entered into an agreement to help further the safe deployment and use of second life battery energy storage systems (SLBESS). A Memorandum of Understanding, signed during a July 23 ceremony at UL's offices in Seoul...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Robotics Research

Will Huawei Survive? A Comprehensive Analysis from IDTechEx
Under US sanctions, Huawei's revenue in the first half of 2021 was RMB 320.4 billion, which despite COVID-19 is a 38% decrease from RMB 454 billion in the same period last year; Xu Zhijun, Huawei's rotating chairman, pointed out that Huawei's goal is...
The Biggest Challenge for Autonomous Vehicles
It is widely accepted that around 95% of road traffic accidents are caused by human drivers. We are fallible, distracted, and potentially dangerous. Our liability behind the wheel is not just the problem of other human drivers, but can also be diffic...
A Winning Solution for Autonomous Farming Safety
Agri-tech company Agribot AI has won the Agri-EPI and Hands Free Farm (HFF) hackathon tackling safety and security concerns around autonomous agricultural vehicles. A hackathon funded by Smart Agri-Hubs, Agri-EPI Centre in collaboration with Hands ...
World's First Lung Delivery by Drone
Unither Bioelectronics has set its sights on transforming the way we think of transplantable organ transportation, either donor organs or manufactured organs. In September 2021, in a proof-of-concept flight, the company transferred donor lungs for tr...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Sensor Technology Research

The Biggest Challenge for Autonomous Vehicles
It is widely accepted that around 95% of road traffic accidents are caused by human drivers. We are fallible, distracted, and potentially dangerous. Our liability behind the wheel is not just the problem of other human drivers, but can also be diffic...
New Fibres Make Breath-Regulating Garments
'Robotic' textiles could help performers and athletes train their breathing, and potentially help patients recovering from postsurgery breathing changes. A new kind of fiber developed by researchers at MIT and in Sweden can be made into clothing th...
Is it Finally Time for Printed Temperature Sensors?
Think of a temperature sensor - and a traditional glass thermometer, or perhaps a small thermistor would probably spring to mind. However, a new class of temperature sensors is rapidly emerging that offers spatial resolution together with a thin-film...
Join the Upcoming IDTechEx Webinar on In-Mold Electronics
Webinar Title: In-Mold Electronics Offers Efficient Manufacturing of Embedded Functionality Date: Thursday 21 October 2021 Presenter: Dr Matthew Dyson, Senior Technology Analyst - IDTechEx Space is limited - reserve your seat today! Greater int...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Space Tech Journal

NASA Selects Gamma-ray Telescope to Chart Milky Way Evolution
NASA has selected a new space telescope proposal that will study the recent history of star birth, star death, and the formation of chemical elements in the Milky Way. The gamma-ray telescope, called the Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI), is exp...
Blue Origin Completes Second Human Flight to Space and Back
Blue Origin successfully completed its second human spaceflight on board New Shepard on Wednesday, October 13, 2021. The flight included four astronauts, Dr. Chris Boshuizen, Glen de Vries, Audrey Powers, and William Shatner, as well as thousands of ...
Rocks on Jezero Crater, Mars, Show Sustained Interaction with Water
Since the Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater on Mars in February, the rover and its team of scientists back on Earth have been hard at work exploring the floor of the crater that once held an ancient lake. Perseverance and the Mars 2020 missi...
BepiColombo's First Views of Mercury
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has captured its first views of its destination planet Mercury as it swooped past in a close gravity assist flyby. The closest approach took place at an altitude of 199 km from the planet's surface. Images from the sp...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Telecoms Tech Research

Antenna technology for high frequency devices
Will Huawei Survive? A Comprehensive Analysis from IDTechEx
Under US sanctions, Huawei's revenue in the first half of 2021 was RMB 320.4 billion, which despite COVID-19 is a 38% decrease from RMB 454 billion in the same period last year; Xu Zhijun, Huawei's rotating chairman, pointed out that Huawei's goal is...
Join the Upcoming IDTechEx Webinar on 5G
Webinar Title: 5G Laying Groundwork for a Completely Digitalized and Connected Future Date: Thursday 14 October 2021 Presenter: Dr Yu-Han Chang, Technology Analyst - IDTechEx Space is limited - reserve your seat today! 5G, with its gigabytes da...
New Smart City Materials and Formats
A new MIT study finds that the number of visitors to any location decreases as the inverse square of travel distance. Since affordable accommodation is distant from a city center, this and web shopping means that city centers are emptying. Cities see...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Water Tech Research

Rethinking Smart Cities: Setbacks and How to Move Forward
Bill Gates backed a Belmont smart city in the Arizona desert - little has happened beyond a land purchase. Authorities demand that the Colorado river's diminishing water supply is unharmed. Arizona suffers historic water shortage. The Southwest and m...
Launch of the Largest Solar Powered Water Desalination System in Kenya
On the 22nd of September 2021, one of the largest water desalination projects, and the first of its kind in Africa will be launched in Marsabit County. It delivers over 11,000litres of hygienic drinking water per hour, with a capacity of providing wa...
CHASM Advanced Materials Closes $15 Million in Series C Funding
CHASM Advanced Materials Inc, the inventor of nanotube hybrids - a new category of advanced materials unlocking formerly impossible product innovations, today announced the completion of a $15 million Series C financing round led by WAVE Equity Partn...
Simple Way to Desalinate Water Using Solar Energy
Ural Federal University power engineers have developed a new desalination technology. The new technology will significantly reduce the cost of desalination and quadruple the volume of production, it has been reported. The results of the research are ...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Wearable Technology Insights

New Fibres Make Breath-Regulating Garments
'Robotic' textiles could help performers and athletes train their breathing, and potentially help patients recovering from postsurgery breathing changes. A new kind of fiber developed by researchers at MIT and in Sweden can be made into clothing th...
Monitoring Glucose Levels, No Needles Required
Noninvasive glucose monitoring devices are not currently commercially available in the United States, so people with diabetes must collect blood samples or use sensors embedded under the skin to measure their blood sugar levels. Now, with a new weara...
Wearable Head Scanner for Comfort, Mobility During Brain Scans
To collect accurate images of a patient's brain, the patient must be still and confined in a tube-like MRI scanner for a long period of time. To better assess their brain function and behavioral health, however, they should move naturally and freely ...
Facemask Could Help Reduce Mental Distress
eScent has showcased the first use of its transformative facemask tech with innovative scent delivery system. eScent has completed its first concept project to develop a re-usable, enhanced FFP3 facemask which offers "personalised protection ass...
 

LATEST ARTICLES FROM Wireless Charging Journal

3D Printed, Personalised, Wireless Wearables That Never Need a Charge
Wearable sensors to monitor everything from step count to heart rate are nearly ubiquitous. But for scenarios such as measuring the onset of frailty in older adults, promptly diagnosing deadly diseases, testing the efficacy of new drugs or tracking t...
Cota Real Wireless Power Reaches New Heights
From the very beginning, one of Ossia's goals has been to make wireless power as ubiquitous as the electrical socket ... not only in the US, but globally. One of the biggest hurdles to do so is to meet certain regulatory approvals in each country or ...
High Power Wireless Vehicle Charging Technology
The US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has licensed its wireless charging technology for electric vehicles to Brooklyn-based HEVO. The system provides the world's highest power levels in the smallest package and could one day ena...
Common Solar Tech Can Power Smart Devices Indoors
Any time you turn on a light at home or in the office, you are expending energy. But what if flipping the light switch meant producing energy too? We usually think of solar, or photovoltaic (PV), cells fixed to roofs, converting sunlight into elect...