Sensors

L'Oréal recently unveiled My UV Patch, a stretchable skin sensor designed to monitor UV exposure and help consumers educate themselves about sun protection.

Video Interview with Thin Film Electronics at Printed Electronics USA 2015.

Carbon Robotics are bringing to market a high-quality low-cost (sub-$5,000) robot arm by employing novel technologies and materials.

Whilst the majority of wearable technology products sold today still fit with the components-in-a-box design, 2015 has been a record year for investment in smart clothing and e-textile products.

A hand-worn robotic device is being developed that will help millions of blind and visually impaired people navigate past movable obstacles or assist in their ability to pre-locate, pre-sense and grasp an object.

This profile focuses on their Anisotropic Conductive Film (ACF) work, as part of the Advanced Materials Division, and produced at the Kanuma and Neagari plants. ACF was originally launched by Sony Chemicals over 30 years ago. Dexerials was founded in June 2012 from Sony Chemicals. They have capital stock of 15.7 billion yen, and employ 2366 employees, as of March 2015. Dexerials Corporation was listed in the First Section Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange on 29th July, 2015.

Founded in 2010 and based in Israel, VocalZoom's main product revolves around a laser used to acquire information about facial vibrations during speech. The sensor acts as an interferometer and can reduce errors in speech recognition with background noise by upto 75%.

Liquid crystal elastomers are ideal for applications like artificial muscles and blood vessels, actuators, sensors, plastic motors and drug delivery systems.

The TSensors Summit 2015 was held in Celebration, FL this year and was attended by approximately 150 people that had the chance to attend presentations on the latest developments and applications for sensors, and how the concept of abundance (as defined by Peter Diamandis in his book of the same name published in 2012) would be enabled with the proliferation of trillions of sensors deployed worldwide.

Scientists report a new step toward a more efficient monitoring method that uses quantum dots to quickly sniff out and identify five dangerous compounds.

Churning out biosensors with structured metal-coated polymer film to produce affordable biosensors.

MesoScribe is commercializing a direct write process based on a plasma process. The technology enables electronic parts to be directly deposited onto 3D-shaped structures, thus enabling structural or conformal electronics. The technology is strong in processing structures at high (>850C) temperature, giving rise to high performance.

As part of our coverage of printed electronics, IDTechEx has been following the development of printed and flexible sensors. In this article we look back at the most important trends of 2015.

As the hype around wearable technology fades, IDTechEx technology analyst James Hayward looks at where the industry is now.

Scientists report a unique sensing device made of gum and carbon nanotubes that can move with your most bendable parts and track your breathing.

CETEMMSA is a non-profit research institution with 19 years experience of applied research into smart materials and devices. In 2015 they merged with other local research centres to become Eurecat. CETEMMSA's research areas include printed electronics, high performance textiles including eTextiles, surface biofunctionalisation, printed circuits and components, photonics and others.

With Clothing+ newly unveiled in it's new position under Jabil, smart clothing has become the centre of attention in the wearable technology industry once again. This short article looks back at the origins of smart clothing, placing the current interest in the topic in context. With key players quickly entering the space and investment at an all time high, IDTechEx's latest work analyses the key trends within this evolving industry.

This innovation depends on an injectable, near-infrared optical biosensor nanotube that would read a person's blood glucose constantly and an optical glucose scanner that can access the data collected by nanotube.

Sensoria provide a body sensing platform incorporating textile sensors, flexible microelectronics and software/cloud platforms targeted initially towards sports and apparel companies. Their current products involve a smart t-shirt, sports bra and smart socks.

Researchers have long been interested in the technology of artificial skins. Although previous studies have introduced an assortment of electronic skin elements, none of them were able to detect both pressure and heat with a high degree of sensitivity, until now.