12 Apr 2021
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.
12 Apr 2021
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 with the goal of enabling people with paralysis to directly use their neural activity to operate computers and mobile devices with speed and ease.
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12 Apr 2021
Saudi Arabia's First Utility Scale Renewable Energy Project
ACWA Power announces the official inauguration of the 300 MW Sakaka PV IPP, Saudi Arabia's first utility scale renewable energy project, at an investment value of 1.2 billion Saudi riyals.
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12 Apr 2021
NewMotion's Charging Network Joins Electric Juice Network
Octopus Energy and NewMotion have agreed that customers of the Electric Juice Network can now use the public charge points of NewMotion. NewMotion, a Shell group company, has thousands of charge points in the public charging network in Europe and the UK, including a growing amount of rapid charging at Shell Recharge.
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12 Apr 2021
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 last year.
9 Apr 2021
How a Moving Platform for 3D Printing Can Cut Waste and Costs
For the first time, researchers have created a low-cost reusable support method to reduce the need for 3D printers to print wasteful supports, vastly improving cost-effectiveness and sustainability for 3D printing.
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9 Apr 2021
E Ink Announces Next Generation Four-Color E Ink Spectra 3100
E Ink Holdings announced the launch of four-color E Ink Spectra 3100, a next generation ink platform to support Electronic Shelf Labels and retail signage.
9 Apr 2021
Polestar 0 Project: A truly Climate Neutral Car by 2030
In Polestar's first annual review the Swedish electric performance car brand announces its moonshot goal to create the first truly climate neutral car by 2030.
9 Apr 2021
First Human Use of High Bandwidth Wireless Brain Computer Interface
Brain-computer interfaces 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 clinical trials have required cables to connect the sensing array in the brain to computers that decode the signals and use them to drive external devices.
9 Apr 2021
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 particles. But how exactly do these antimicrobial technologies work?
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8 Apr 2021
Event Summary: LOPEC 2021
On 22 - 24th of March 2021 IDTechEx attended (virtually) the LOPEC conference, organised by the European Organic Electronics Association (OEA). This premium article reviews a selection of the most interesting and/or commercially relevant talks.
8 Apr 2021
Screening for Skin Disease on Your Laptop
In artificial intelligence, deep learning organizes algorithms into layers (the artificial neural network) that can make its own intelligent decisions. To speed up the learning process, the new network was trained using the parameters of MobileNetV2, a mobile vision application, pre-trained on the ImageNet dataset with 1.4M images.
8 Apr 2021
New Approach Could be Key to Next-Generation Transparent Electronics
A new study, out this week, could pave the way to revolutionary, transparent electronics. Such see-through devices could potentially be integrated in glass, in flexible displays and in smart contact lenses, bringing to life futuristic devices that seem like the product of science fiction.
8 Apr 2021
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 palletizer/depalletizer stacks them on a pallet as if playing a three-dimensional game of Tetris.
8 Apr 2021
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.
8 Apr 2021
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 battlefield damage repair.
8 Apr 2021
Source Technology for the Use of Wearable Devices Without Recharging
Despite the continued development and commercialization of various wearable electronic devices, such as smart bands, progress with these devices has been curbed by one major limitation, as they regularly need to be recharged. However, a new technology has become a hot topic, as it shows significant potential to overcome this limitation for wearable electronic devices.
8 Apr 2021
SolarWindow Sets New Record, Doubling Its Power Conversion Efficiency
SolarWindow Technologies Inc has more than doubled its prior certified performance, also achieving the highest independently-certified power conversion efficiency of previous organic photovoltaic devices fabricated at the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
8 Apr 2021
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.
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8 Apr 2021
5G Fixed Wireless Access - An Alternative to Fiber or Cable Broadband
IDTechEx attended GSA 4G/5G FWA Forum Plenary on 30th March. This premium article reviews a selection of the most interesting talks, and give insights on 5G FWA market and future trends.