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Pavegen harvests power from footsteps in Washington DC

Pavegen has been working with the US Federal Government on their flagship US V3 installation in Washington DC, just walking distance from the Whitehouse.

Chinese supercar shows the future

Supercars and racing cars including solar cars show the future. Here we see the trend to more motors and motor controllers per car - part of the trend to power electronics becoming more important than batteries.

Efficient approach for tracking physical activity with wearables

Researchers have developed an energy-efficient technique for accurately tracking a user's physical activity based on data from wearable devices.

Biomedical skin-like bandage is stretchy, durable and long lasting

A skin-like biomedical technology that uses a mesh of conducting nanowires and a thin layer of elastic polymer might bring new electronic bandages that monitor biosignals for medical applications and provide therapeutic stimulation through the skin.

Robot bartenders shake things up at sea

The robot bartenders can produce two drinks per minute and can make up to 1,000 each day. Guests create an order—whether a custom request or standard menu item—on a specially programmed tablet or with staff.

Pizza-by-drone a reality, world-first deliveries in New Zealand

Drone deliveries of pizza are now a reality, with the first commercial delivery of food by drone to a customer, anywhere in the world, successfully completed in New Zealand

Sensors in Medicine 2016

In early November, technology analyst Dr David Pugh attended the Sensors in Medicine conference in London. The conference featured lectures from leaders in academia, industry and clinical practice discussing how sensors will play a key role in diagnostics and disease management. The following slides feature some of the key presentations and ideas discussed at the conference.

Five minutes of charging for five hours of battery life

They call it 5 for 5, as in 5 minutes of charging can get you 5 hours or more of battery life. Quick Charge 4 is engineered to charge a typical smartphone from zero to 50 percent in about 15 minutes or less.

New smart hang-tag from Thinfilm and Bedford

Thin Film Electronics ASA has announced a partnership with Bedford Industries, an innovative manufacturer of product ties, closures and identification tags.

New product announcements from the IDTechEx Show! exhibition hall

From the Exhibition Hall at the IDTechEx Show! in Santa Clara last week came a wide variety of new product announcements and press releases. Here we summarize some of the announcements.

Battery electric cars better choice for reducing emissions

Many communities would be better off investing in electric vehicles that run on batteries instead of hydrogen fuel cells, in part because the hydrogen infrastructure provides few additional energy benefits for the community besides clean transportation.

Creating robots that respond to human emotions

Lovotics refers to the research of the human-to-robot relationship. These relationships offer new possibilities for exploring the concept and possibilities of human love and robots that can mimic this love.

Gallium nitride: semiconductor almost as durable as diamonds

Engineers have reported a previously unknown property for GaN: Its wear resistance approaches that of diamonds and promises to open up applications in touch screens, space vehicles and radio-frequency microelectromechanical systems.

Development of a wearable medical device for type 2 diabetes

Although effective for the treatment of diabetes, exercise is sometimes difficult for overweight or elderly people. A new wearable medical device has been found to effect visceral fat loss and improve blood glucose (sugar). The current study reports clinical trial results for optimal use frequency.

Next-generation smartphone battery inspired by the gut

A new prototype of a lithium-sulphur battery - which could have five times the energy density of a typical lithium-ion battery - overcomes one of the key hurdles preventing their commercial development by mimicking the structure of the cells which allow us to absorb nutrients.

IDTechEx Show! USA 2016 Award Winners

The winners of the IDTechEx Awards were announced yesterday evening (16 November), at the end of the opening day of the IDTechEx Show! in Santa Clara, CA, where over 3,200 attendees were brought together at the biggest conference IDTechEx has held. The awards recognized the most significant innovations in electric vehicles, energy harvesting and storage and the internet of things (IoT).

Energy harvester to power pacemakers

A project that designs broadband low-frequency piezoelectric energy harvesters to help power pacemakers.

Nano scale electronics score laboratory victory

Researchers have pioneered a method for growing an atomic scale electronic material at the highest quality ever reported.

Kateeva's YIELDjet FLEX inkjet printing system wins prestigious award

Last night at the Printed Electronics USA conference in Santa Clara, Calif., Kateeva's YIELDjet™ FLEX inkjet printing system was named the winner of the prestigious Technical Development Manufacturing Award. Presented annually by conference organizer IDTechEx, the award honors the most significant development of a manufacturing device process or production plant in the printed electronics industry over the previous 24 months.

Barcelona Microelectronics Institute chooses CeraPrinter X-Serie

CERADROP designs and markets Materials Deposition Digital Printers exclusively for Printed Electronics Industry and Smart 3D Printing.