29 Oct 2014

Wearable Technology Live! USA 2014
The wearable ecosystem assembles at IDTechEx's co-located Santa Clara events
Santa Clara, CA, USA and Cambridge, UK - Oct. 27, 2014.
21 Oct 2014

The Internet of Things: Who will be the winners?
The Internet of Things is of great excitement to many of the world's largest consumer electronics companies because they seek the "next big thing", with existing markets in smart phones, tablets and computing saturating.
17 Oct 2014

Wearable Technologies and Glucose Monitoring: Progress Assessment
In 2012 347 million people worldwide had diabetes according to the World Health Organization. Disposable glucose test strips have improved the lives of millions of diabetic patients who need to monitor their blood glucose level on a regular basis.
8 Oct 2014

Printed, organic and flexible electronics markets
IDTechEx, the global market research, technology scouting and events firm, finds that in 2014 three technologies - OLED displays, sensors and conductive ink - make up 99% of the $23.97 billion market for printed, organic and flexible electronics.
8 Oct 2014

Printed Electronics USA tradeshow exceeds 150 exhibitors
Whether you are trying to find customers, establish an eco-system of partners, raise funds or sell your company, Printed Electronics USA is the tradeshow for you.
16 Sep 2014

Wearable Technology: Lessons of History
Many new wearable technologies will appear in luxury designer products and fashion following the modest beginning with non-electronic technology such as artificial diamonds and Swarovsky selling base metal linking glass that is coated with interference layers. High margins await.
14 May 2014

Why the interest in e-textiles?
The heart of the e-textile business as it emerges is electric and electronic functionality from sensing to light emission, achieved entirely by use of e-fibers.
14 Apr 2014

E-textiles come center stage
So far, there is very little true e-textile in production - that is, textiles with electronic and/or electric functionality based on weavable e-fibers. That is now changing.
24 Mar 2014

Tesla's Battery Coup - Winners and Losers
Ground breaking news were announced by Tesla at the end of February 2014. This is their intention to build a lithium battery manufacturing plant with a capacity of 35 GWh/year by 2020, this is the so called "Gigafactory". Read this article in order to understand what is the impact of these plans to the whole industry.
3 Mar 2014

Wearable Technology: The $70 billion picture
This article shares some of the recent research from the brand new IDTechEx report Wearable Technology 2014-2024.
Full profile interview
10 Dec 2013

adidas Wearable Sports Electronics
Adidas Wearable Sports Electronics have been a significant player in the e-textiles and smart clothing place since their acquisition of Textronics in 2008. IDTechEx have interviewed many senior staff from this division over the years and have updated this profile in full for 2016.
Included are:
Full profile interview
21 Sep 2013

Clothing+
Clothing+ has been in business for more than 15 years and was a pioneer in the mass production of textile-based heart rate measurement systems. The company is divided in two business units: Sports and Medical. While Sports has grown faster recently, they expect that Medical will become the main part of the business in the longer term. In July 2015, they were acquired by Jabil Circuit.
Background
10 Sep 2013

Reebok International
This profile discusses uses and needs of Reebok in terms of its 3D printing related activities.
2 Aug 2012

Heated trousers, sustainable walkways:new ball game at London Olympics
With the Olympics underway, the whole world is looking to London and the excitement the Games are promising over the next couple of weeks. What sometimes goes unnoticed is the innovation that is ever present in the games, the limelight being stolen by exciting duels, explosive races and record breaking performances.
31 Mar 2011

Applying energy harvesters to textiles
Energy harvesters enabling micro-power generation provide new levels of efficiency and automation in the built environment, process control, vehicles and healthcare.
10 Dec 2010

Reebok and MC10 announce development collaboration
Massachusetts companies partner to develop conformal electronics-enabled apparel and equipment for athlete monitoring and performance enhancement
27 Oct 2010

IDTechEx Hong Kong event award winners
IDTechEx held their Printed Electronics Asia and Wireless Sensor Networks, Energy Harvesting & RFID conference in Hong Kong last week. This was the first time all these topics were brought together at one event.
6 Oct 2010

Printed Electronics Asia 2010 event preview
IDTechEx Printed Electronics Asia 2010 and Wireless Sensor Networks, Energy Harvesting & RFID Asia are now less than a week away. The two co-located conferences will cover a multitude of topics and will give you access to detailed presentations on these mutually supporting subjects, covering both the technologies and their applications.
17 Sep 2010

TSMC begins building solar R&D center and fab in central Taiwan
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company enters into the thin-film solar photovoltaic (PV) market.