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Piezoelectrics Key to IoT and Power from Roads?

California and Europe are pumping millions into development of electricity-generating roads using piezoelectrics. Piezos will also be useful in self-powered Internet of Things nodes because no one will change or even charge millions of batteries for those nodes let alone the envisaged billions. Without self-powered nodes, the IoT will be nothing more than a footnote in history. The new IDTechEx Research report, "Piezoelectric Harvesting and Sensing 2019-2039" is the first to pull it all together. Milliwatts or megawatts: where will piezoelectric success lie?

Start-up company Pireta explain their truly wearable technology

Pireta has developed a unique free-form process to add durable, conductive, metallic patterns to textiles without changing the fabric feel or performance.

Audi to invest in in electric mobility, autonomous driving

From 2019 until the end of 2023 alone, the company plans advance expenditure of approximately €14 billion in electric mobility, digitalization and autonomous driving.

Aquatic animals that jump out of water inspire leaping robots

Ever watch aquatic animals jump out of the water and wonder how they manage to do it in such a streamlined and graceful way? A group of researchers who specialize in water entry and exit in nature had the same question and are exploring the specific physical conditions required for animals to successfully leap out of water.

Inexpensive biosensor provides instant and accurate results

Using a small and inexpensive biosensor, researchers have built a diagnostic tool that provides health care practitioners almost instant diagnosis of a bacterial infection.

AI system may accelerate search for cancer discoveries

Searching through the mountains of published cancer research could be made easier for scientists, thanks to a new AI system.

Microdisplay chip paves the way for high-performance smart glasses

EU-funded scientists have developed a high-resolution microdisplay chip for less bulky high-performance virtual reality and assisted-vision headsets.

Haydale discloses new anti-counterfeiting technology using graphene

Haydale's unique capacitive coding system will revolutionise the anti-counterfeit technology. Officially launched at the IDTechEx conference and with a security printer already using the technology.

'Smart skin' simplifies spotting strain in structures

Invention can use fluorescing carbon nanotubes to reveal stress in aircraft, structures.

A report from EVS31 & EVTeC 2018

The 31st International Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exhibition (EVS31) and International Electric Vehicle Technology Conference 2018 (EVTeC2018) was held at the Kobe Convention Centre with about 1,300 participants for the Congress and about 1,500 participants for Exhibition and Ride & Drive.

Learnings from Battery and Energy Warwick University 4-5 Dec 2018

At "Battery and Energy" Warwick University UK Day One with about 100 delegates and 10 table top exhibitors.

Diesel generator sets: navigating an uncertain future

Diesel generator sets remain crucial to many key industries and are a multi-billion dollar global market.

Brilliant iron molecule could provide cheaper solar energy

For the first time, researchers have succeeded in creating an iron molecule that can function both as a photocatalyst to produce fuel and in solar cells to produce electricity. The results indicate that the iron molecule could replace the more expensive and rarer metals used today.

Radioactive-busting robotic suit

If wearable technologies are the future, a radioactive-busting robotic suit could represent yet one more dramatic step into the beyond.

Lasers could take 3D printing to next level

Cars that go more than 1,000 miles on a single fill-up and smartphones that can run for days without recharging are among the possibilities that could come out of a new research project that brings together 3D printing and laser processing.

Emergency admission predicted with AI

Machine learning can be used to analyse electronic health records and predict the risk of emergency hospital admissions.

Electric container barges to set sail

Dubbed the 'Tesla of the canals', the unmanned electric container barges will operate on Dutch and Belgian waterways.

Report from the GIANT Health Event 2018

IDTechEx analysts Dr Luyun Jiang and Dr Nadia Tsao report on their findings form the event.

Device provides cooling for off-grid locations

Researchers have devised a new way of providing cooling on a hot sunny day, using inexpensive materials and requiring no fossil fuel-generated power. The passive system, which could be used to supplement other cooling systems to preserve food and medications in hot, off-grid locations, is essentially a high-tech version of a parasol.

Sustainable farming robots with AI

Small Robot Company aims to make farms more profitable, and increase yield and efficiency, through using small robots instead of tractors. Its arable farming robots Tom, Dick and Harry will enable farmers to be kinder to soil, kinder to the environment, more efficient, more precise and more productive. It will also reduce chemical usage and cultivation energy in arable farming by up to 95%.