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A report from AABC 2018 - Part 3

This is part 3 in a three part series where IDTechEx analysts explore their findings from AABC 2018.

Smart socks for diabetics

The first textile with microsensors woven directly into the fabric. These virtually invisible sensors are seamlessly integrated into the socks to monitor temperature changes on the bottom of the feet.

Get immediate results with new blood test technology

Researchers have created a mobile version of the "Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay" (ELISA), the gold standard technique used to detect the presence of an antibody or antigen. Instead of sending patients to a laboratory, new cell phone-based technology allows for the very same test to be conducted in the doctor's office, clinic or even in a remote area.

Garbage-collecting aqua drones, jellyfish filters for cleaner oceans

A Roomba-like ocean trash collector modelled on a whale shark and a microplastic filter made from jellyfish slime could prevent litter from entering our oceans and help tackle a growing problem that poses threats to wildlife, deters tourists and impacts on coastal economies.

Shell forecast solar winning

Project the cost reduction of photovoltaics and wind and, for the largest of facilities including the most efficient, it is obvious that photovoltaics crosses wind to become lowest cost.

Umicore Rechargeable Battery Materials

Umicore is a Belgian company with the largest market share of LCO for Li-ion batteries. The company is now operating facilities for recycling spent Li-ion batteries

Transparent conductive films and materials: past, present and future

The market for transparent conductive films and materials has been rapidly changing.

Electric vehicles do not need to be poisonous

Diesel vehicles land, water and air, are on the way out because they emit poisons. However, the new electronics and electrics in and on vehicles appearing over the next ten years will contain most those poisons and add more.

A rollercoaster which charges your phone

Kinetic energy includes everything from the g-force and vibrations of the ride to the screams of the users. The devices fitted on to the train's carriages capture this energy before converting into electrical energy, which is stored in a power management unit throughout the day. This unit is then removed from the carriages by staff and deposited into the on-site mobile charging point, allowing guests to charge their mobile phone.

Computer searches telescope data for evidence of distant planets

As part of an effort to identify distant planets hospitable to life, NASA has established a crowdsourcing project in which volunteers search telescopic images for evidence of debris disks around stars, which are good indicators of exoplanets.

Jelly implant keeps an eye on body oxygen levels

Although smaller than a grain of rice, a phosphorescent hydrogel implant that monitors tissue oxygen could end amputations in people with blocked blood vessels or help athletes design better training programmes. The first of these tiny but durable devices has survived more than four years - implanted in the foot of the researchers who created it.

Fastest delivery drone in the world

Zipline's mission is to bring life-saving medicine to the most difficult to reach places on the planet. The company operates the world's first and only national scale drone delivery system, making thousands of deliveries per year. Zipline's newest generation of autonomous aircraft flies farther, faster and with more cargo than was ever before possible— even in high altitude, heavy wind, or rain.

PowerHouse grid energy storage unit provides emergency backup power

Trojan Battery Sales announced that it is now offering the PowerHouse Grid Energy Storage Solution.

New design for electric powered paramotor

EXOMO is a collaboration between Aeronature, the first electric paramotor school, and Aero Composites Saintonge, the aeronautics specialist of electric propulsion and maker of the E-Fan demonstrator for the Airbus Group.

Glass-like polymer conducts electricity for transparent electronics

Researchers have created a transparent polymer film that also conducts electricity, introducing an inexpensive organic material for applications such as the screens of electronic devices.

Robot designed to defend factories against cyberthreats

It's small enough to fit inside a shoebox, yet this robot on four wheels has a big mission: keeping factories and other large facilities safe from hackers.

Ethiopian energy plant converts trash to power

Ethiopia is supporting a green energy plant that will convert waste into energy.

Raayonnova

IDTechEx interviewed Aleksandr Shtukater, founder of Raayonnova, about their progress developing smart contact lenses integrating displays.

See what you get for just €99 at Printed Electronics Europe

Next week Printed Electronics Europe opens in Berlin to 2,500 people. See what you get for just 99 Euros.

New ways to print capacitive touch sensors

Who does not remember the futuristic cockpits in the "Thunderbirds Are Go" movie, featuring purportedly 21st-century Human-Machine Interface (HMI) technologies with electromechanical buttons and switches? In this article Agfa-Gevaert N.V. explore new and possibly game-changing real life touch sensor technologies.