Harbin Institute of Technology

KDDI Corporation releases Sharp Corporations's waterproof solar phone

KDDI Corporation has released Sharp Corporation's "Solar Phone SH002", as one of its summer 2009 models of the au brand mobile phone. As of March 2009 it is the world's first waterproof solar-powered phone, and has been released in Japan.

Koenigsegg and NLV Solar AG create the Quant solar electric car

Swedish supercar marque Koenigsegg and NLV Solar AG, a pioneer in photovoltaics and accumulator technology, have joined forces to create the Quant. The brainchild of this marriage of power and energy is a four-seater solar electric car.

Energy Harvesting and Storage Conference - Day Two

The second day of the IDTechEx conference on Energy Harvesting and Storage in Cambridge UK was dedicated to the technology roadmap.

New e-reader from txtr

The German start-up txtr, based in Berlin, have a new e-book reader that is due to hit the German market in the 3rd quarter of 2009.

A new way could lead to cheap and flexible electronics

Physicists at Umeå University in Sweden have now developed a new and simple method for producing cheap electronic components.

How to create a $1 billion business from e-labels - Multiclient study

E-labels will be a huge business and the opportunity overlaps with e-packaging - IDTechEx are offering a multiclient study of the technology and market roadmap of e-labels including specification of a range of imaginative e-labels acceptable to a broad range of industries.

How to create a $1 billion business from e-labels - Multiclient study

E-labels will be a huge business and the opportunity overlaps with e-packaging - IDTechEx are offering a multiclient study of the technology and market roadmap of e-labels including specification of a range of imaginative e-labels acceptable to a broad range of industries.

Video images with OLED wallpaper

Researchers are developing an OLED wallpaper that can turn a wall into a television screen or simply provide light.

Paybacks from energy harvesting

This article shares some of the research carried out for the new IDTechEx report "Energy Harvesting and Storage for Electronic Devices 2009-2019".

Scientists at MIT work in biomimetics

IDTechEx is offering a multiclient study of the e-label of the future. It will lead participants to billion dollar businesses in the materials, the labels and the extra sales of consumer, healthcare, military and other products that will result.

Finding better materials for solar cells

New research could lead to cheaper solar cells with vast potential

IDTechEx report on Intellipak conference held 5 November - Part One

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.

Increased activity in OLED market

Although OLED technology is still developing there is currently a notable market presence of OLEDs in electronic devices and displays.

Manufacturing microfluidic biosensors

Fraunhofer IZM, Germany reports that high throughput manufacturing of biosensors has remained a challenge. This is due to the different environments necessary for the survival of biological components on the one hand and current MEMS technologies on the other.

RFID takes off - big time

Zebra Technologies has recently bought several impressive RFID companies, putting over $200 million on the table. In different RFID sectors, Assa Abloy buys at least one RFID company every year. Inside Contactless has just raised $38 million to boost its effort on RFID enabled mobile phones with the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer Nokia leading the group of investors. Clearly RFID is taking off - big time.

Understanding photosynthesis to optimise printed photovoltaics - US

Dye sensitised solar cells and organic photovoltaics mimic photosynthesis.

200 Organisations Now Developing Printed Transistors and Memory

Printing is the basis of the new electronics. As Dr Colin Marsh of The Technology Partnership in the UK says,

RFID Profit - the Taboo Subject

In any rapidly emerging market sector, there are those that make bold initiatives but miss their targets and there are those that quietly create profitable businesses. So it is with RFID, where many companies are reviewing their strategies after disappointment while others are succeeding. However, as far as the press and the analysts are concerned, profit is a taboo subject. Until now.