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Flexible Electronics: The Big Winner So Far in Printed Electronics

Exploring the commercialization of flexible electronics, one of the key focus points of this year's Printed Electronics USA event on November 15-16 in Santa Clara, CA.

Thermoelectric developments continue

Despite a speed up of electrification which is bad news for thermoelectric based waste heat recovery in internal combustion engines, not all has been bad for this energy harvesting technology.

TISICS

TISICS are manufacturers of silicon carbide monofilaments and MMC parts. IDTechEx technology analyst Dr Richard Collins interviewed Stephen Kyle-Henney (Managing Director).

QuesTek Innovations LLC

QuesTek Innovations LLC uses their proprietary computational toolset to optimise the design of alloys for cast and wrought manufacturing, as well as for additive manufacturing.

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Metalysis

IDTechEx Technology Analyst Dr Bryony Core spoke with Dr Ian Mellor, Managing Director of the Technology and Materials Discovery Centre at Metalysis about the process behind their metal powders.

Carpenter Technology

IDTechEx Technology Analyst Dr Bryony Core interviewed a representative from Carpenter Technology Corporation regarding their metal powder range for additive manufacturing.

Heraeus - 3D printing metals

Heraeus supply gas atomised metal powders for 3D printing. From Q3 2016 they intend to offer high melting alloys such as Zr, Mo, Ta and Nb.

ZigBee Alliance welcomes 38 new members to drive IoT forward

The ZigBee Alliance, a non-profit association of companies creating, maintaining and delivering open, global standards for the low-power wireless Internet of Things, has announced 38 new members have joined since the beginning of 2016.

Amotech - Offerings for Wearable Devices

IDTechEx met with Brian Lee and Won-Bok Cho from Amotech in Seoul, Korea, in April 2016. During this meeting we discussed Amotech's offerings for the wearable technology industry, including their wireless power transfer solutions, connectivity, protection products and new developments around sensors and flexible batteries.

HORIZON (AM) project gains momentum as demonstrators take shape

The HORIZON (AM) project, a £13.4m research and development programme that aims to develop additive manufacturing (AM) techniques into viable production processes for aerospace parts, chose Delcam's Birmingham headquarters for its fourth project meeting.

Texas Instruments collaborates with Microsoft to speed IoT development

Enabling embedded developers to jumpstart innovative new designs for the Internet of Things era, Texas Instruments has announced three low-cost evaluation kits based on its embedded processors supporting Microsoft Azure Certified for Internet of Things.

Energy Harvesting USA Agenda Launched

Leaders cover high power and low power energy harvesting at the World's largest event on energy harvesting technologies and their application, Energy Harvesting & Storage USA, to be held in Santa Clara on November 18-19.

Smart wearable translates sign language into English

A smart device that translates sign language while being worn on the wrist could bridge the communications gap between the deaf and those who don't know sign language.

China wants to dominate in 3D printing machines and materials

The conference at Euromold 2015 followed the theme of "Shaping the future of 3D printing globally". The first day was strongly focussed around the "globally" aspect, with speakers chosen from a wide variety of countries across the world and asked to speak about all the 3DP activities in their countries.

SIGFOX adds Denmark to its global Internet of Things network

SIGFOX and IoT Denmark A/S have announced plans to roll out the SIGFOX network in the Scandinavian country.

Novel plastic could spur new green energy applications

A plastic used in filters and tubing has an unusual trait: It can produce electricity when pulled or pressed.