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Large End User Companies Attend Printed Electronics USA 2008

Printed Electronics is now reaching tipping point with the first major new products being launched - from flexible e-readers to fully printed RFID tags. To find out more attend Printed Electronics USA on 2 - 5, 2008 in San Jose.

RFID robot - Shop of the future

A neat "robot" terminal has just been announced by electronics giant NEC. It combines a touch-sensitive screen in its chest with an RFID reader terminal for gathering data from the e-money phones that are popular in Japan.

IDTechEx to launch Printed Electronics World Review Magazine

Printed Electronics World Review Magazine is to be launched at the World's biggest annual gathering of the industry - Printed Electronics USA 2008 in San Jose.

Printed electronics - The magic arrives

How Printed Electronics is changing consumer goods and services - highlights from the forthcoming Printed Electronics USA event

Stora Enso joins Medixine in electronic compliance monitoring service

Smart packaging company Stora Enso has joined forces with Medixine to market a new electronic compliance monitoring service.

IDTechEx report on Intellipak conference held 5 November - Part two

IDTechEx finalises its report on the Intellipak conference held on 5 November in Sweden

First display modules from prelonic

prelonic build first display - battery modules: fully printed, on one substrate and low-cost. Focused to mass production processes these prototypes will be the base of the starting business in 2009.

Creative Materials offers a series of radio opaque inks and adhesives

Creative's radio opaque inks and adhesives are custom designed to adhere to a wide variety of plastics. The products are formulated to be applied by several methods including: pad printing, screen-printing and syringe dispensing.

IDTechEx report on Intellipak conference held 5 November - Part One

IDTechEx report on the Intellipak conference held in Sweden on 5 November that was mainly in Swedish and partly in English with just over 40 attending and excellent content.

Energy harvesting

Energy harvesting, otherwise known as energy scavenging is needed to boost and eventually replace the batteries in printed and other low cost and miniature electronics, particularly in order to extend their life in use.

New nanocluster to boost thin films for semiconductors

Oregon researchers push printed inorganic electronics to higher levels of performance by synthesizing an elusive metal-hydroxide compound in sufficient and rapidly produced yields, potentially paving the way for improved precursor inks that could boost semiconductor capabilities for large-area applications.

Hanvon e-reader used in space

The new electronic reader Hanvon N510 was used by the crew of the recent Shenzhou-7 orbital flight to take notes, read books and listen to recordings state recent reports.

Wireless sensor networks 2009-2019 Part two

IDTechEx has just issued a report called Wireless Sensor Networks and we summarise the subject also known as Ubiquitous Sensor Networks in part two.

GRAPH EXPO 2008, 26-29 September, McCormick Place, Chicago,

IDTechEx's technology analyst Dr Harry Zervos attended GRAPH EXPO 2008 and reports on the innovative technologies that could benefit from the merging of electronics and printing.

Wireless sensor networks 2009-2019 Part one

IDTechEx has just issued a report on the hot topic of Wireless Sensor Networks WSN, also known as Ubiquitous Sensor Networks USN. The report is called Wireless Sensor Networks.

World's first thin-film battery with integrated battery management

Cymbet Corporation has developed a breakthrough in battery technology with the introduction of the EnerChip™ CC CBC3112 and CBC3150 thin-film batteries with integrated battery management.

Rapid growth expected from the OLED lighting industry

Rapid growth expected from the OLED lighting industry creating demand of up to 90% for OLED materials by volume.

Smart fabrics make clever medical clothing

A European research team has developed groundbreaking medical-sensing smart fabrics, and its work could lead to pregnancy monitoring belts, sports clothing that provides training tips, a wearable physical game controller, and a vest that helps to prevent repetitive strain injury.

Lux Executive Summit - Emerging technologies for global challenges

IDTechEx technology analyst Dr Harry Zervos attended Lux Research's Executive Summit in Cambridge, MA - an event at which a range of leading presenters debated some of the biggest challenges of the 21st century.

Chemist devises self assembling organic wires

A team of chemists at The Johns Hopkins University has created water-soluble electronic materials that spontaneously assemble themselves into "wires" 10,000 times smaller than a human hair.