TyroMotion GmbH (AT)

Manufacturing microfluidic biosensors

Fraunhofer IZM, Germany reports that high throughput manufacturing of biosensors has remained a challenge. This is due to the different environments necessary for the survival of biological components on the one hand and current MEMS technologies on the other.

Hitachi powder chip Japan

At the Aichi World Fair in Japan in 2005, Hitachi Mew Solutions 2.45 GHz passive RFID inserts were in 25 million admission tickets that were issued.

IDTechEx Review: Flexible Displays Conference Part 2

Part 2 of the IDTechEx review of the Flexible Displays Conference in Phoenix.

IDTechEx Review: Flexible Displays Conference Phoenix Jan 21-24 Part 1

IDTechEx attended the recent Flexible Displays Conference in Phoenix. Read our review here - part 1.

RFID - Larger Orders and More of Them

The largest RFID orders - here comes China - huge advances coming in HF RFID - new vibrant technologies.

UK-based start-up has patented a flexible watch concept

SnapWatch Ltd, a UK-based start-up has patented a flexible watch concept using E paper display technology.

Quantum Paper near to market in USA

The recent conference Printed Electronics USA in San Francisco had a presentation by two people from the secretive company Quantum Paper.

A solar bag that is powerful enough to charge a laptop - US

The first solar bag powerful enough to charge a laptop was unveiled last month and will be available later this spring.

IDTechEx RFID Market projections 2008 to 2018

The new IDTechEx report RFID Forecasts, Players & Opportunities 2008-2018 is the summation of extensive new research in late 2007 and early 2008 including interviews with RFID adopters and solution providers in the various applicational RFID markets, giving an unprecedented level of insight into the total RFID industry and what is really happening. Here Raghu Das, CEO, gives a summary of our findings.

Printed Electronics: the future of RFID?

Replacing the silicon chip: progress with printed RFID.

American CIGS manufacturer sustains 10% efficiency

Global solar energy is first CIGS manufacturer to achieve consistent full-scale production of 10 percent average solar cell efficiency on flexible/lightweight substrate.

RFID cell phone patent for diagnostic applications allowed in Korea

Gentag Inc, US has been notified by the Korean Patent Office that its patent entitled

New e-reader with mobile phone finally goes into production - UK

Polymer Vision's e-reader with mobile phone has finally gone into production after 10 years of research & development and more than two years after the prototype was demonstrated at a consumer electronics trade fair.

Green OLED emitter offers world class efficiency performance, UK

OLED-T, UK announced a green phosphorescent OLED material with world class efficiency performance.

New direction for printed electronics in 2008

The money spent on printed and potentially printed electronics doubled in 2007, as did the number of organisations participating.

Contact lenses with circuits could be a platform for superhuman vision

Engineers at the University of Washington, US have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights.

RFID takes off - big time

Zebra Technologies has recently bought several impressive RFID companies, putting over $200 million on the table. In different RFID sectors, Assa Abloy buys at least one RFID company every year. Inside Contactless has just raised $38 million to boost its effort on RFID enabled mobile phones with the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer Nokia leading the group of investors. Clearly RFID is taking off - big time.

Japan to probe seabed for deposits of rare metals

The Japanese government has secretly been looking at probing the seabed from next spring for deposits of ultra-rare metals.