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Race for color video e-readers

The e-reader is a killer application involving printed electronics. Despite costing more than an i-Pod, the Amazon Kindle achieved 500,000 unit sales in its first year of trading last year and now we are talking of millions. The i-Pod, an iconic success, only achieved 300,000 unit sales in its first year of trading.

More efficient way of harvesting electrical power from wasted heat

The need to get rid of excess heat creates a major source of inefficiency in everything from computer processor chips to car engines to electric power plants. But new research points the way to a technology that might make it possible to harvest much of that wasted heat and turn it into usable electricity.

Electronic Skins, Wearable Sensing, and Ubiquitous Media - Opportunities for Flexible Electronics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, United States

Printed electronics needs new design rules

The first cars looked like horse drawn carriages - suboptimal and using the design rules of the past. So it is with most printed electronics today. It is frequently burdened with old fashioned components like silicon chips, cylindrical capacitors, chip resistors and button batteries.

Thin films and nanotechnology for power

Printed electronics and electrics will be a $335 billion business in twenty years, just for devices primarily made by printing with electronic inks. IDTechEx gives a summary of the projections.

Solar powered bus stops

The solar bus stop is a modular structure which is easy to install or relocate as it does not need any wiring, and the bus stop is totally self-sufficient, using its own energy resources to power information boards showing arrival times of buses.

Spring shaped carbon nanotubes

New research by MIT scientists, led by associate professor of mechanical engineering Carol Livermore, suggests that carbon nanotubes could be formed into tiny springs capable of storing as much energy, pound for pound, as state-of-the-art lithium-ion batteries.

ECG necklace for home cardiac monitoring

An ECG necklace that monitors long-term cardiac performance allows patients to remain mobile to continue their daily activities while under observation using an embedded beat detection algorithm monitoring system.

Cars with thermoelectric and other harvesting

There is now consensus that hybrid and pure electric cars will be the fastest growing sector of the car business for the next twenty years. Analysts and manufacturers project 15-20% of cars made in 2020 being electric.

Brand enhancement by electronics in packaging

Consumer packaged goods companies would like to see more printed electronics providers offering final products rather than just components. Read more about brand enhancement using electronics in packaging.

Electricity from insects

Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is conducting a Hybrid Insect MEMS (HI-MEMS) program which is aimed at developing technology that provides more control over insect locomotion.

Synthetic leaves for energy scavenging

Researcher Michel Maharbiz from the University of California, Berkeley, together with researchers from the University of Michigan, and MIT have constructed leaves out of glass wafers with tiny veins through which water can flow.

Motoring without the gas station

Hybrid cars are a great success. In addition, pure electric cars are at last moving beyond the golf car and neighbourhood vehicle stage with serious volumes beginning to be sold.

Energy harvesting volume driven by cars

In all forms of electric vehicle, power management is key and any form of energy harvesting is welcome. The modern car will therefore increasingly use regenerative braking, solar panels outside and maybe energy harvesting shock absorbers as well.

Low power radio chip mimics human ear

Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have built a fast, ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip, modeled on the human inner ear, that could enable wireless devices capable of receiving cell phone, internet, radio and television signals.

Peeling stickers may lead way to stretchable electronics

New model enables precise design of damage-resistant materials.

Energy harvesting - which technology wins

Energy harvesting is popularly defined as converting ambient power to electricity to make small devices self-sufficient, often for decades. Even hundreds of years of life is in prospect.

Novel solar concentrator

Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers report a new approach to harnessing the sun's energy that could allow windows to not only provide a clear view and illuminate rooms, but also to use sunlight to efficiently help power the building they are part of.

STABILISIERTE LEISTUNG, DIE INS AUGE FÄLLT

ICI Imagedata demonstriert auf der Konferenz und Ausstellung „Printed Electronics Europe 2009" in Dresden (7.-8. April) seine in San Jose erfolgreich lancierten Stabilex Ultra-Folien.

Electricity produced from waste heat

Thermoelectric materials can generate electricity from waste heat which escapes through vehicle exhaust pipes, industrial equipment, and computer chips, but so far the materials have not been efficient and have been too expensive to be widely used.

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