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The EU and China sign a key partnership on 5G

The EU and China have signed a milestone agreement in the global race to develop 5G networks.

Meeting of Japan Energy Harvesting Consortium September 25 2015

As energy harvesting becomes a different and much more noticed subject, IDTechEx monitors the situation by intensive visits to many events, companies and universities. The meeting of the Japan Energy Harvesting Consortium September 2015 was certainly revealing.

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.

Inspiration should not be tempered by fabrication

The opening keynote of the Euromold conference was given by Jeff Kowalski, Chief Technology Officer of Autodesk.

New method for building on an atomic scale improved solar cells

UK scientists have pioneered a new way of manipulating several thousand atoms at a time, paving the way for building nanoscale electronic devices more quickly and easily at room temperature.

Dongfeng and Renault agree to produce electric vehicles in China

As part of the Joint Venture between Dongfeng and Renault, DRAC will produce an electric vehicle that is based on the Fluence Z.E.

Highly flexible and wearable tactile sensor

A team of scientists has developed a wearable liquid-based microfluidic tactile sensor that is small, thin, highly flexible and durable.

Prodways signs a major strategic partnership with Farsoon

Prodways Group, subsidiary of Groupe Gorgé, has announced the signing of a major partnership with the Chinese company Hunan Farsoon High-Tech, regarding selective laser sintering technologies for plastic and metal powders.

Star Prototype

Star Prototype are a 3D printing service bureau in China catering to the domestic and foreign markets.

SinterIt

Following the expiration of a key SLS patent, Sinterit have a developed a low-cost SLS machine for {#euro}7000 targeting designers and architects, due to start shipping in early 2016.

Collaboration for enhanced IoT privacy and security

Intel EPID is a sophisticated, proven approach to device authentication that provides both security and privacy for the on-ramp to the Internet of Things.

Alkaline flow battery charges up renewable energy storage

Scientists have developed an alkaline flow battery that they hope will help to tackle the tricky problem of storing energy from renewable power sources such as wind and solar.

Flexible sensors come to market thanks to tens of millions investment

Large investments have been made to enable flexible, thin sensors rather than rigid sensors.

Personalized heart models for surgical planning

Researchers have developed a system that can take MRI scans of a patient's heart and, in a matter of hours, convert them into a tangible, physical model that surgeons can use to plan surgery.

Graphene ultracapacitors to power new multipurpose UGV

A unique, multipurpose unmanned ground vehicle will be the first vehicle of its kind to use ultracapacitor technology.

Small electric vehicles $33 billion market

Small manned electric vehicles - e-bikes to car-like micro EVs - often sell in the largest numbers. Although they are usually lower in cost than regular cars, they will reach over $33 billion in 2026 according to IDTechEx analysis.

Fatigue-free, stretchable conductor

Researchers have discovered a new stretchable, transparent conductor that can be folded or stretched and released, resulting in a large curvature or a significant strain, at least 10,000 times without showing signs of fatigue.

Portable wind turbine for clean energy anywhere

The Trinity wind turbine is light and portable, for powering mobile devices and cars.

Turning Human Motion into Electricity

Video interview with Flexous at Energy Harvesting & Storage Europe.

Transparent coating cools solar cells to boost efficiency

The hotter solar cells get, the less efficient they become at converting the photons in light into useful electricity.