30 Mar 2015

GreenPower announces production of 2015 EV350 all electric bus
GreenPower Motor Company Inc announces that production is well underway on the 2015 model of the EV350 all electric transport bus.
27 Mar 2015

Product Development Technology - You Can't be a One-Trick Pony
Develop3d LIVE: a Product Development Technology conference at Warwick Arts Centre, on the University of Warwick campus, in the UK.
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27 Mar 2015

Exploring the possibilities with Sensors in Medicine
IDTechEx joined around 100 delegates at the Sensors in Medicine 2015 event at the Royal Geographical Society on London's Exhibition Road. Two days of talks from companies, academics and physicians discussed the key trends around the topic, and presented the state-of-the-art when it comes to different sensors for medical point of care diagnosis.
27 Mar 2015

Highlights from the First Major Supercapacitor Event of 2015
The first day at the AABC Conference 2015 in Mainz Germany brought interesting insights on the future of the energy storage industry in Europe. The keynote session highlighted the role, structure and organisation of some of the main battery RD centers in Germany.
27 Mar 2015

Flexible polymer threads set to light up clothing
Researchers have created a fibre of a polymer light-emitting electrochemical cell by taking a stainless steel wire and dip-coating it with a thin layer of zinc oxide nanoparticles.
27 Mar 2015

XALT Energy to supply batteries for electric buses in China
XALT Energy has signed a global exclusive agreement with Hybrid Kinetic Group of China for the supply of its Lithium Titanate batteries from its manufacturing facilities in Midland for all-electric buses in China.
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27 Mar 2015

NRC Printable Electronics initiative - interview with IDTechEx
The National Research Council (NRC) is the Government of Canada's premier organization for research and technology development.
27 Mar 2015

Waggle: An open platform for intelligent attentive sensors
The newly developed Waggle platform outfits researchers with a next-generation data collection experience.
27 Mar 2015

Copper atoms bring a potential new battery material to life
A team of researchers has studied one member of a class of materials, called transition metal fluorides, that are potential cathodes for future lithium ion batteries.
27 Mar 2015

Volvo Trucks cuts production times by 94 percent
Volvo Trucks is now producing more than 30 tools using Stratasys additive manufacturing, slashing the tool turnaround times by more than 94 percent.
26 Mar 2015

Harnessing electromagnetic radiation
A device that works by harnessing electromagnetic radiation from different sources and then reusing it to energize low-power circuits.
26 Mar 2015

Optimising soft-optoelectronics materials with molecular engineering
The molecules used to make optoelectronic devices can be engineered to balance the chemical interactions within them and optimise their properties for specific applications.
26 Mar 2015

World-record electric motor for aircraft
Siemens researchers have developed a new type of electric motor that, with a weight of just 50 kilograms, delivers a continuous output of about 260 kilowatts - five times more than comparable drive systems.
25 Mar 2015

Engineer inspired by human brain to develop wearable micro-sensors
Taking a cue from nature to devise the next generation of integrated low-power, wearable micro-devices.
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25 Mar 2015

Sung An Machinery - interview at IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA
Sung An Machinery, better known as SAM, manufactures Extrusion Coating and Laminating Machines, Solution Coating and Laminating Machines, Rotogravure Printing Machines, and In-Line Flexographic Printing Machines.
25 Mar 2015

Progress in flexible non-contact sensing matrix devices
Carbon based nanomaterials such as carbon nanotube and graphene have attracted more and more attention due to their unique physical and chemical properties. As flexible conducting films, these materials present unprecedented great performance in electronic components and flexible nanodevices.
25 Mar 2015

Software product for the management of AM powders
A revolutionary online software product that enables higher efficiency and better quality control in additive manufacturing.
25 Mar 2015

Imperfect graphene opens door to better fuel cells
Researchers have discovered that if the graphene naturally has a few tiny holes in it, you have a proton-selective membrane that could lead to improved fuel cells.
25 Mar 2015

Connect to the internet with eye blinking
A newly developed user interface, the "i-Mouse," in the K-Glass 2 tracks the user's gaze and connects the device to the Internet through blinking eyes such as winks.
24 Mar 2015

Hidden benefits of electric vehicles revealed
Electric vehicles emit significantly less heat. That difference could mitigate the urban heat island effect, the phenomenon that helps turn big cities like Beijing into pressure cookers in warm months.