New market creation

Smart packaging company Stora Enso has joined forces with Medixine to market a new electronic compliance monitoring service.

IDTechEx report on the Intellipak conference held in Sweden on 5 November that was mainly in Swedish and partly in English with just over 40 attending and excellent content.

IDTechEx has just issued a report called Wireless Sensor Networks and we summarise the subject also known as Ubiquitous Sensor Networks in part two.

A European research team has developed groundbreaking medical-sensing smart fabrics, and its work could lead to pregnancy monitoring belts, sports clothing that provides training tips, a wearable physical game controller, and a vest that helps to prevent repetitive strain injury.

An electromagnetic cloak as seen in the Harry Potter movies may be only 5 years away believe scientists at Purdue University.

IDTechEx recently visited Soligie in Minnesota, USA. Soligie is progressing the know how to co deposit different components on the same substrate, which IDTechEx feels is of great importance but under-addressed by the industry.

To the knowledge of IDTechEx, no other company in the World has invested as much money on the development and commercialization of organic semiconductors, and even the number two is a long way behind in terms of investment level.

some of the most compelling areas of future application involve the intimate, conformal integration of electronics with the human body in ways that are inconceivable using established technology.

Scientists at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden have developed a new material called cellulose nanopaper by exposing wood pulp to certain chemicals.

Amazon's Jeff Bezos will be delighted with the press coverage that there e-reader Kindle received last week. At the BookExpo America a couple of weeks ago it was one of the main topics of conversation. It seems that everyone had something to say about it.

Stretchable electronics is needed for many potential applications in healthcare and elsewhere.

Stretchability is needed in electronics if it is to be foldable, tightly conformal or following the form of something that changes in shape, like the human body.

New Zealand based company Zephyr Technology is working with scientists at AUT University in Auckland to create high tech insoles for shoes, using sensor technology to measure foot temperatures to sense the onset of potential ulceration conditions in diabetics, potentially reducing a major health problem that results in 90,000 amputations each year in the United States.

The smart fabrics industry is a $340 million dollar industry growing 19% annually and projected to reach $720 million by 2008, according to a recent study.

Imagine reading a book like the Da Vinci Code and being able to Google the name of one of the pieces of art or societies such as the Knights Templar by touching a word in the book.

An avalanche of printed or partly-printed products has been announced for the first time by presenters at the IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2005 conference.

More confidence to tackle more target markets

Cypak announce World's first electronic disposable diabetes screening device

Printed Electronics to Dramatically Improve the Human Interface

Why have electronics in packaging?

Andrew Ferber, Vice- Chairman T-Ink, Inc., United States at Printed Electronics USA 2005