5 Oct 2016

Helping epilepsy patients predict when they will have a seizure
People with epilepsy could soon be able to predict when they will have a seizure under a pioneering project that uses Microsoft products to monitor health.
30 Sep 2016

Sarcos Robotics secures investment from Caterpillar, GE and Microsoft
Sarcos Robotics, developer of dexterous industrial robots for use in unstructured environments, announced it has secured funding from a group of top-tier strategic investors.
14 Sep 2016

Sarcos Robotics secures investment from Caterpillar, GE and Microsoft
Sarcos Robotics announced it has secured funding from a group of top-tier strategic investors including Caterpillar Ventures, GE Ventures, and Microsoft Corporation. Additionally, Cottonwood Technology Fund and two other private investment firms.
19 Aug 2016

Customized functional devices attached directly on skin
DuoSkin is a fabrication process that enables anyone to create customized functional devices that can be attached directly on their skin.
Full profile interview
17 Aug 2016

Flex - Fashion and Apparel division
IDTechEx interviewed the Director of Fashion and Apparel at Flex, who leads a team developing manufacturing capabilities to serve future wearable technology products.
External press release
15 Jul 2016

Tauseef Bashir joins Thinfilm as EVP Global Sales
Thin Film Electronics ASA has announced changes to its management team.
11 Jul 2016

Has the 3D printing industry stabilised?
The stocks of the eight public 3D printing companies have crashed over the past years - will valuations stabilise in 2016?
7 Jun 2016

A thinner, flatter lens for wearables
Researchers have demonstrated the first flat — or planar — lens that works highly efficiently within the visible spectrum of light, covering the whole range of colors from red to blue.
13 May 2016

Aesthetic and functional temporary tattoos
A fabrication process that draws from current body decoration processes (i.e., jewelry- like metallic temporary tattoos) for the creation of on- skin technology.
Full profile interview
4 May 2016

Dispelix
Dr Harry Zervos spoke to Antti Sunnari, CEO and co-founder of Dispelix, a company that's looking to commercialize a new type of lightguide optic structure that could disrupt the market for AR smartglasses due to low material and manufacturing costs as well as light weight.
Full profile interview: SWOT
13 Apr 2016

United Sciences
Full profile interview
13 Apr 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.
21 Mar 2016

Smartwatches can now track your finger in mid-air using sonar
As mobile and wearable devices such as smartwatches grow smaller, it gets tougher for people to interact with screens the size of a matchbook. That could change with a new sonar technology.
25 Feb 2016

Microsoft tests underwater data center for more efficient cooling
Microsoft has tested a prototype of a self-contained data center that can operate hundreds of feet below the surface of the ocean, in efforts to reducing the need for expensive air-conditioning.
Full profile interview: SWOT
2 Feb 2016

Epson Eyewear Division
Full profile interview
21 Jan 2016

Multitaction
Multitaction is a Finland-based large-area interactive display manufacturer. It's technology is based on optical (IR) vision systems. The main market is the enterprise segment. The key advantage is stems from the system's ability to create different large-scale shapes composed of an arbitrary arrangement of 50" displays. The system can also handle an unlimited number of users and different input types.
18 Jan 2016

Smart garments track and analyse soccer player movements
Collecting players' biometric data and tracking movements by utilizing smart garments.
Full profile interview: SWOT
15 Jan 2016

Oculus
18 Dec 2015

Wearable technology in 2015 - how far have we come?
As the hype around wearable technology fades, IDTechEx technology analyst James Hayward looks at where the industry is now.
9 Dec 2015

Sensors that could harvest clean energy from traffic on Texas roads
Researchers have been awarded a $1.32 million contract from the Texas Department of Transportation to design and develop a system to harvest energy created by the movement of vehicles along the state's roadways and convert it into low-cost renewable electric power.