31 Jan 2020
First True Smart Contact Lens
Mojo Vision is building the world's first true smart contact lens, called the Mojo Lens. Mojo Lens is a contact lens with a built-in display that gives people the useful and timely information they want without forcing them to look down at a screen or losing focus on the people and the world around them.
31 Jan 2020
Engineers Examine Lithium Battery Defects
Solid-state lithium batteries are the Holy Grail of energy storage. With potential impacts on everything from personal mobile devices to industrial renewable energy, the difficulties are worth overcoming. The goal: Build a safe and long lived lithium battery. The challenge: Use a solid-state electrolyte and stop short circuiting from the formation and growth of lithium dendrites.
31 Jan 2020
For Cheaper Solar Cells, Thinner Really is Better
Costs of solar panels have plummeted over the last several years, leading to rates of solar installations far greater than most analysts had expected. But with most of the potential areas for cost savings already pushed to the extreme, further cost reductions are becoming more challenging to find.
31 Jan 2020
Neuromodulation Device May Help Prevent Migraines
In a new clinical trial, neuromodulation takes the form of a cell-phone-sized device that stimulates the vagus nerve. The longest cranial nerve in the human body, the vagus nerve charts a circuitous route from the brain stem through the face, neck, chest and abdomen.
31 Jan 2020
Partnership to Bring 3D Printing to Hospitals in South Africa
Increasingly, hospitals are using 3D printed patient-specific anatomical models to enhance patient care and surgical outcomes, support medical education and significantly reduce theatre costs. With this latest partnership, Axial3D and MedTech3D aim to bring the novel medical imaging technology to the South African market.
Youtube interview
31 Jan 2020
Largest Manufacturer of PET Films Applied in Electronics
The DuPont Teijin Films (DTF) joint venture is a world-leading manufacturer of high-performance PET polyester films specifically designed for use in flexible and printed electronics applications.
Event summary
31 Jan 2020
InnoLAE 2020
Innovations in Large Area Electronics 2020
IDTechEx attended InnoLAE 2020 (Innovations in Large-Area Electronics Conference), which is held each year just outside Cambridge, UK. The conference aims to 'bridges the gap between academia and industry', in the field of printed/large area/alternative electronics. Approximately half the attendees are from academia, with the rest from (primarily) small material suppliers and university spin-out companies.
External press release
31 Jan 2020
Wood Based Batteries Created by Ligna Energy Printed at Ynvisible
Ynvisible Interactive Inc is pleased to announce the first industrial scale production of an innovative and groundbreaking energy storage technology developed by researchers at Linköping University and the company Ligna Energy AB. Ligna Energy's batteries are printed from residual material from the forest. The first industrial production run was carried out at Ynvisible Production in Linköping, Sweden.
31 Jan 2020
Robotic Kitchen Assistant on a Rail
This newest generation of Flippy is intended to be installed under a standard kitchen hood and allows Flippy to move along a line of kitchen equipment, tucked away out of the path of busy cooks.
30 Jan 2020
Impact of Technology Development on Li-ion Supply Chain
Understanding the future of the Li-ion supply chain requires clarity on the technologies and chemistries that will be used over the coming decade.
Youtube interview
30 Jan 2020
Custom Designed Drone Using Advanced Materials
219 worked with DuPont to develop a custom-designed drone built with advanced technology.
30 Jan 2020
GMC Hummer EV to be Revealed This Year
The GMC HUMMER EV will be revealed on May 20, 2020 and built in Michigan at General Motors' Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant.
Update interview
30 Jan 2020
SENSE
At CES 2020 IDTechEx interviewed SENSE, a 50 person company that provides long range solid state LIDAR. The company fabricates its own lasers (most others, they claim, buy in parts).
Update interview
30 Jan 2020
Airspeq
At CES 2020 IDTechEx met with Tania Sole from Airspeq. The company has developed a MEMS based sensor to detect airborne particulate matter. The technology is based on patent pending MEMS thin-film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) technology.
Update interview
30 Jan 2020
XYZ
At CES 2020, IDTechEx met with XYZ who demonstrated a wide range of 3D printing equipment at their booth.
Update interview
30 Jan 2020
NodeTalks
At CES 2020 IDTechEx interviewed Dr Moon Kyoung-sik, CEO of NodeTalks. NodeTalks has developed an "intelligent wearable gas detector" based on creating a low power system-on-chip and ultra low power sensor interface IC.
Update interview
30 Jan 2020
MUTO LABS
IDTechEx met with MUTO Labs at CES 2020, a company formed in 2019, but which has been working on 3D printing for four years. They gave IDTechEx some updates and demonstrations of their current technology.
Full profile interview
30 Jan 2020
HZO
HZO protects electronics from demanding environments using nano coatings. IDTechEx interviewed Ryan Moore, Director of Marketing at CES 2020.
Update interview
30 Jan 2020
Medical Electronic Systems
Pregnancy test kits are one of the huge successes of at-home rapid diagnostics, allowing the private and rapid check of pregnancy. It's a big business.
Update interview
30 Jan 2020
Goya Lab
IDTechEx interviewed Goya Lab at CES 2020. The start-up, which is one year old, is commercialising an anticounterfeiting technology based on the optical signature from quantum dots or other materials.