Wearable Technology

In this profile, Alexis Karandrea interviews Christina Schwartz to learn more about CorTec and the innovative technologies they offer and are developing for the research and clinical settings.

PrintoCent Innovation Center commercializes the research results of Printed Intelligence and Optical Measurements.

Versatile, light-weight materials that are both strong and resilient are crucial for the development of flexible electronics, such as bendable tablets and wearable sensors.

IDTechEx attended the recent BIO International Convention 2017 which takes place annually covering all areas of life science.

Engineers have designed a flexible thermoelectric energy harvester that has the potential to rival the effectiveness of existing power wearable electronic devices using body heat as the only source of energy.

Although AR and VR devices are starting to hit the market, they remain mostly a novelty because eye fatigue makes them uncomfortable to use for extended periods.

Artificial intelligence is one of the key emerging technologies. Global IT companies are competitively launching the newest technologies and competition is heating up more than ever.

Scientists are developing smart prosthetics, which allow lower limb amputees greater mobility, particularly on uneven terrain.

Bainisha's high performance wearable systems assist with sports training and re-education

Imagine wearing a device that continuously analyzes your sweat or blood for different types of biomarkers, such as proteins that show you may have breast cancer or lung cancer.

Suunto is making it easier to rapidly develop and bring to market new, more accurate motion-sensing solutions with Movesense, a sophisticated sensor and software developer kit that's now publicly available.

At the Augmented World Expo (AWE) 2017 last week IDTechEx analyst James Hayward began to subconsciously position each company and individual that he spoke to on a scale between two extremes, as explained in this article.

Researchers have demonstrated that a tethered soft exosuit can reduce the metabolic cost of running on a treadmill by 5.4%.

Interview with KOLON Industries at the IDTechEx Show! Berlin 2017

Scientists have created a graphene-based sensor that could lead to earlier detection of looming asthma attacks and improve the management of asthma and other respiratory diseases, preventing hospitalizations and deaths.

IDTechEx spoke to Sander Idelson and Founder/CEO Dr Ashod Donikian from Navisens at AWE 2017. They have developed a dead reckoning system for mapping spaces using IMUs in portable devices such as AR headsets.

Rokoko have developed a motion capture suit using IMUs positioned as nodes in a suit on the body. They are manufacturing their first 300 units, targeting the film and animation sector as their first market.

In this article we highlight one stretchable electronics technologies with potential to become near-term success stories: interconnects.

IDTechEx met with and attended presentations from Intel at AWE 2017. This profile gives an update on their progress with Project Alloy, their "Merged Reality" computing project.

IDTechEx attended AWE 2017, where eMagin were presenting their latest updates with their HMD products and night vision cameras. This profile contains details from their CMO Dan Cui's presentation.