Update interview
3 Feb 2021

Innolux
Innolux are a prominent Taiwan-based company, best known for their TFT-LCD touch panels for a variety of applications.
2 Feb 2021

Webinar - Hybrid Electric Vehicles: A Short-Lived Opportunity?
Thursday 4 February 2021 - This webinar will include: Battery technologies; The main players in the industry; Key geographical markets; and Competition from plug-in hybrids, 48V hybrids and battery electric vehicles
2 Feb 2021

Webinar - 6G Communications: The Trillion Dollar Battle Commences
Wednesday 3 February 2021 - 5G communications has come to a phone near you and 6G communications received strong investment in 2020 as we move to its standards, specification and substantial rollout in 2030. However, this time will be different because the objective is far more heroic.
2 Feb 2021

Alphabet Again Exits Drones: Others Again Jump In
In 2017, after four years of setbacks and crashes, Alphabet shut its project flying solar-powered fixed-wing drones in the upper atmosphere to beam the internet to those cut-off. They have now ended their upper-atmosphere balloon version as well.
2 Feb 2021

Low Intensity Focused Ultrasound Jump-Starts Brains After Coma
The scientists used a technique called low-intensity focused ultrasound, which uses sonic stimulation to excite the neurons in the thalamus, an egg-shaped structure that serves as the brain's central hub for processing. After a coma, thalamus function is typically weakened.
2 Feb 2021

3D Printing Resins in Dental Devices Toxic to Reproductive Health?
Two commercially available 3D-printable resins, which are marketed as being biocompatible for use in dental applications, readily leach compounds into their surroundings. These compounds can induce severe toxicity in the oocyte, the immature precursor of the egg which can eventually be fertilized, reports a new study in mouse oocytes.
External press release
2 Feb 2021

Eco Wave Power Wins the Smart Port Challenge in Morocco
Eco Wave Power announces the winning of the Smart Port Challenge Competition. The goal of the challenge was to find disruptive solutions that will facilitate transit at Morocco's ports and improve port performance.
2 Feb 2021

Threads That Sense How and When You Move? New Tech Makes It Possible
Engineers created thread sensors that can be attached to skin to measure movement in real time, with potential implications for tracking health and performance.
2 Feb 2021

Volkswagen Group Components Begins Battery Recycling Pilot
Volkswagen Group Components opened the Group's first plant for recycling electric car batteries in Salzgitter. The aim is the industrialized recovery of valuable raw materials such as lithium, nickel, manganese and cobalt in a closed loop together with aluminum, copper and plastics, achieving a recycling rate of more than 90% over the long term.
Full profile interview
2 Feb 2021

ErreDue s.p.a.
ErreDue s.p.a. is an Italian company manufacturing oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen for industrial and laboratory applications.
The following profile is focused on ErreDue electrolysers.
1 Feb 2021

Smart Algorithm Cleans up Images by Searching Buried Noise
To enter the world of the fantastically small, the main currency is either a ray of light or electrons. Strong beams, which yield clearer images, are damaging to specimens. On the other hand, weak beams can give noisy, low-resolution images.
1 Feb 2021

3D Printer Ink Infused with Living Material
A tree grows strong from years of generating its own food. Now imagine if products could be strengthened with the same living materials that provide nutrients to strengthen trees. This is the work of a team whose research lab is one of the first to infuse 3-D printer ink with living material.
1 Feb 2021

Tesla in India: Boost in a Country with Low Appetite for Electric Cars
Tesla has plans to enter a new market: India. This story has unfolded only one way so far. Tesla decides to enter a new market and quickly becomes the top-selling EV maker by leveraging its powerful brand and class-leading technology at a competitive price. But will it be so easy in India?
External press release
1 Feb 2021

Liquid Wire Delivers Best-in-Class Performance in NextFlex Study
Liquid Wire Inc has joined the NextFlex community whose mission it is to advance US manufacturing of Flexible Hybrid Electronics by fostering technology innovation and commercialization. The current NextFlex project to identify reliable stretchable conductor systems utilizes Liquid Wire's proprietary elastic Metal Gel circuit and conductor technologies to exceed the project goals of 100% stretch for more than 10,000 cycles.
1 Feb 2021

Biden's EV Revolution: A Boon for Electric Trucks and the Tesla Semi
The electric truck market in the US is primed for huge growth. Having largely lagged behind China and Europe in electric commercial vehicle deployment, the transition to zero-emission vehicles in this sector now seems set to begin in earnest.
Update interview
1 Feb 2021

MAS Holdings - Moderncraft
Alongside the CES event, IDTechEx interviewed the team at Moderncraft, as part of MAS Holdings. IDTechEx spoke to Tharushi Ranatunga,Maduka Chandrasiri, Michael Alphonsus, and Nuwan Chathuranga.
Background
29 Jan 2021

Omron
Omron had a significant presence at CES 2021, as they have in previous years.
29 Jan 2021

BP and Qantas Form Partnership to Advance Net Zero Emissions
Qantas and bp have announced a strategic partnership to further advance their shared net zero ambitions. Through the collaboration, the companies will work together on opportunities to reduce carbon emissions in the aviation sector and contribute to the development of a sustainable aviation fuel industry in Australia.
External press release
29 Jan 2021

Solar Lights for Every Off-Grid Home in Namibia with Namene Solar
Namene Solar announced their latest carbon offsetting project in Namibia, certified by Gold Standard. It's the first project in Namibia to receive the certification. It will see climate finance subsidise the sale of the company's award-winning solar lights to rural homes and informal settlements across the country.
29 Jan 2021

Wirelessly Rechargeable Soft Brain Implant Uses Light to Control Cells
Researchers have invented a smartphone-controlled soft brain implant that can be recharged wirelessly from outside the body. It enables long-term neural circuit manipulation without the need for periodic disruptive surgeries to replace the battery of the implant.