Sensors

Battery elimination, indeed elimination of all energy storage, is moving to even higher power, from electronics to electrical engineering.

Cast your mind back a few years and you will find a conductive ink business that appeared very mature and slow moving. Then everything began to change...

James Hayward spoke with David Shin about Nidec Sankyo's recent efforts in deploying voice coil motors (VCMs) as haptic actuators. This profile builds on a previous IDTechEx profile from Nidec at CES 2017.

With over two months to go until the IDTechEx Show! at the Santa Clara Convention Center on November 15 - 16, over 90% of the exhibit space is already sold. The event brings together the hottest emerging technologies including materials, components and systems with end users, who seek to use these technologies to differentiate their products through greater capability.

A new, electronic skin microsystem tracks heart rate, respiration, muscle movement and other health data, and wirelessly transmits it to a smartphone.

This article works through the issues facing the development of thermoelectric harvesting, including high power, modular thermoelectric technology and turnkey thermoelectric generators.

Scientists report they are on the cusp of using silk, one of the world's most coveted fabrics, to develop a more sensitive and flexible generation of multi-purpose devices that monitor a slew of body functions in real time.

The total RFID market is worth $11.2 billion in 2017, what are its future applications and opportunities? IDTechEx CEO Raghu Das joins Dr David Pugh to discuss this exciting industry.

IDTechEx是一家位于英国剑桥，致力于全球新兴技术市场调研的国际公司。从2002年起，IDTechEx已经开始进行关于印刷电子，柔性电子，有机电子的市场技术调研

IDTechEx's free, expert led webinars provide up-to-date insights on the latest emerging technology trends. You can now access these at a time that suits you, for up to one month.

IDTechEx Analysts Dr David Pugh & Mr James Hayward discuss Apple developing a LTE-enabled Apple Watch and how this may impact their business model, battery life and what the future of wearables could look like.

Researchers have demonstrated tattoo-like epidermal sensors as an emerging class of truly wearable electronics, owing to their thinness and softness.

Geek+ is a Chinese company established in 2015. It has a system similar to Kiva: a network of automated mobile robots move totes full of items to people for pickings

Artificial skin with post-human sensing capabilities, and a better understanding of skin tissue, could pave the way for robots that can feel, smart-transplants and even cyborgs.

IDTechEx is hosting a free webinar on opportunities for LPWAN technologies on Thursday 3 August.

The sprayed sensors can be networked, to render rich real-time information on the health status of the structure under monitoring.

Earlier this week, Immersion Corporation filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Fitbit. This is in addition to an existing lawsuit they have against Apple, also relating to the infringement of their patents in haptics, user interfaces and human-machine interfaces. In this article, James Hayward describes the background to these lawsuits within the broader context of the haptics industry.

Henkel AG & Company, KGaA, is a German chemical and consumer goods company headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany.

James Hayward visited SRI International's robotics lab to learn about their latest developments, including active cooling in apparel, soft powered exoskeletons, electrolaminates/haptics and new motor designs.

Acellent Technologies work on the structural health monitoring of composite and metallic parts. Dr Richard Collins interviewed Dr Amrita Kumar (Executive Vice President).