14 Oct 2015

Texas Instruments collaborates with Microsoft to speed IoT development
Enabling embedded developers to jumpstart innovative new designs for the Internet of Things era, Texas Instruments has announced three low-cost evaluation kits based on its embedded processors supporting Microsoft Azure Certified for Internet of Things.
External press release
14 Oct 2015

FlexEnable spearheads another breakthrough in flexible electronics
FlexEnable has successfully validated a new class of high performance organic semiconductors in a million pound project funded by Innovate UK.
14 Oct 2015

Canon announces 3D printer prototype
At their recent Canon EXPO held in Paris, Canon announced their first 3D printer concept developed entirely in-house.
13 Oct 2015

Morgan conducts first graphene experiment at University of Manchester
The first official experiment has taken place in a novel collaboration between industry and academia in the production of graphene.
13 Oct 2015

Collaboration on electric supercharging technology
Controlled Power Technologies and Eminox have reached agreement to collaborate on the development of electric supercharging solutions to reduce fuel consumption.
12 Oct 2015

LCD display with metal oxide semiconductor
Taiwanese display maker Chunghwa Picture Tubes has presented a 5.8 inch LCD display with iXsenic® metal oxide semiconductor coated with Gen 4 slot-die coating equipment.
12 Oct 2015

Insight into the long-term stability of solar cells
A researcher has developed an experimental set-up in which the degradation of solar cells can be accelerated and the degradation monitored in real time. The experimental set-up has been well received in the photovoltaic world and is now being commercialised.
12 Oct 2015

SMMT International Automotive Summit London 13 Oct 2015
This invitation only meeting ably introduced and summarised by Zeinab Badawi was mercifully free of PR speak.
Youtube
12 Oct 2015

E Ink discussing the Outdoor Signage Market
Video interview with E Ink at Printed Electronics Europe.
12 Oct 2015

A new measure for wireless power transfer
Wireless power transfer has many promising applications, such as contactless powering, electric vehicles, and energy harvesting.
12 Oct 2015

Wearable electronic health patches now cheaper and easier to make
A team of researchers has invented a method for producing inexpensive and high-performing wearable patches that can continuously monitor the body's vital signs for human health and performance tracking, potentially outperforming traditional monitoring tools such as cardiac event monitors.
12 Oct 2015

3-D printing techniques help surgeons carve new ears
A collaboration between a University of Washington otolaryngology resident and bioengineering student has used 3-D printing to create a low-cost pediatric rib cartilage model that more closely resembles the feel of real cartilage and allows for realistic surgical practice.
9 Oct 2015

See the Future of EV Technology
Formula One racing gave us the disk brake and more recently led to 60,000 rpm energy harvesting flywheels on London Buses. No one planned to make a London bus look like a Formula One racing car but the bus people saw their future in racing technology.
9 Oct 2015

A $14bn market for advanced and post lithium-ion batteries in 2026
Whilst existing battery technologies such as lead acid and lithium-ion batteries will dominate the battery market in the following 10 years, advanced and post lithium-ion batteries given the right conditions can potentially take a considerable dent of about 10% of whole battery market by 2026.
9 Oct 2015

Brilliant colors from environmentally friendly crystals
Quantum dots have made it possible to substantially increase color quality in LCD displays. However, these cadmium-based nanocrystals have proven to be harmful to the environment. Researchers are working together with an industry partner to develop a promising alternative: quantum dots based on indium phosphide.
9 Oct 2015

Making batteries with portabello mushrooms
Can portabello mushrooms stop cell phone batteries from degrading over time?
9 Oct 2015

U-M opens world-class battery research lab
The open-access lab will provide space to build and test battery concepts while fully protecting the intellectual property of its users.
9 Oct 2015

3D printing and public policy
Although legal principles apply to 3D printing the same as they apply to any other technology, 3D printing has the unique potential to upset the legal status quo. It is the potential scale of 3D printing that may have profound effects on the law.
9 Oct 2015

Orange opts for low power wide area IoT network
A part of its Essentials2020 strategy, IoT is a focus area for Orange, which plans to generate €600 million in revenue by 2018.
Full profile interview
9 Oct 2015

Impossible Objects
Impossible Objects' goal is to produce the world's strongest additively manufactured composite parts, rivalling hand layup materials, at injection moulding speeds. They are commercialising composite-based additive manufacturing technology (CBAM), which is a process that is different from most other additive manufacturing technologies.