Sensors

SEMICON West 2012 Preview

During the conference, they'll be presenting an overview of their ResponsWear™ prototypes and plan to create the new market of Sensitive Technology Fashions at the Investor Summit.

An innovative body sensor that can be worn by users to remotely gather physiogical data over a period of up to 7 days has been developed by Avery Dennison and BodyMedia.

INSIDE Secure announced that its family of NFC solutions can now be used to interact with the Kovio RF Barcode™ wireless tag, an affordable NFC tag solution based on Kovio's printed silicon technology platform.

Disposable electronic sensor system to tap into existing, large and fast growing markets; improve food safety and reduce waste.

Entrepreneur Karen Bender could have "hatched" her latest venture anywhere in the world but she chose Wellington's business incubator Creative HQ over them all.

The trend is already clear: capacitive buttons and controls with attractive graphic designs integrated into surfaces. Transparent, conductive PolyTC® films from PolyIC make this possible in combination with IMD (in mold decoration) decorative films from Leonhard KURZ. Attractive graphic surfaces are becoming increasingly important for equipment and controls particularly in the electronics, mobile communication and automotive sectors.

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a prototype wireless sensor capable of detecting trace amounts of a key ingredient found in many explosives.

Stanford researchers build transparent, super-stretchy skin-like sensor.

The WELT Group is the first one to use Printechnologics' Touchcode technology by linking the sixth edition of its iPad magazine The ICONIST with the style magazine ICON.

The development of low power electronics and devices for integration into the type of active lifestyles that are characteristic of modern humans is a vibrant area of research. Whether the electronics are wearable, epidermal, edible or even implantable, developments are taking place worldwide with new concepts, designs and prototypes that could change everyday life with minimal intrusiveness.

PragmatIC Printing Ltd, the pioneer in imprinted logic circuits, and De La Rue plc, the world's largest integrated commercial security printer and papermaker, announced that they are working together on prototypes for printed electronic security products.

The industrial collaboration is led by Swansea University's Welsh Centre of Printing and Coating which is teaming up with the Institute of Life Science and industry.

An ultrathin, electronic patch with the mechanics of skin, applied to the wrist for EMG and other measurements.

Siemens exclusively licenses imaging technology to Nikkoia SAS