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Electric container barges to set sail

Dubbed the 'Tesla of the canals', the unmanned electric container barges will operate on Dutch and Belgian waterways.

Report from the GIANT Health Event 2018

IDTechEx analysts Dr Luyun Jiang and Dr Nadia Tsao report on their findings form the event.

Device provides cooling for off-grid locations

Researchers have devised a new way of providing cooling on a hot sunny day, using inexpensive materials and requiring no fossil fuel-generated power. The passive system, which could be used to supplement other cooling systems to preserve food and medications in hot, off-grid locations, is essentially a high-tech version of a parasol.

Sustainable farming robots with AI

Small Robot Company aims to make farms more profitable, and increase yield and efficiency, through using small robots instead of tractors. Its arable farming robots Tom, Dick and Harry will enable farmers to be kinder to soil, kinder to the environment, more efficient, more precise and more productive. It will also reduce chemical usage and cultivation energy in arable farming by up to 95%.

A new CO2 - negative energy source as an alternative to coal and oil

Using an existing, operational plant in Austria, NextFuel is introducing a completely new solution to climate change that is CO2 negative, cheap and massively scalable. The NextFuel briquette, made from fast growing elephant grass on marginal land, favorably competes with the rising cost of oil and the price of coal in most markets.

Freer Logic demonstrates EEG technology

Dr Jacob Skinner has described Freer Logic's presentation at this November's Wearable USA show by IDTechEx as 'leagues above' anything he has ever seen. The two-day event, at which Dr Skinner gave a presentation called 'Making Wearables Truly Compelling', aimed to showcase the best in emerging tech and was attended by large corporates and disruptive startups.

Plan for world's first electric vehicle only island

Waiheke Island in Auckland, New Zealand, has launched a plan to become the world's first electric vehicle-only residential island by 2030.

Pocket-sized AsReader Barcode Scanner and GUN-Type RFID Reader

At the 2018 IDTechEx Show! in Santa Clara, AsReader, Inc. showcases a variety of hardware consisting of RFID Reader/Writers, 1D and 2D Barcode Scanners and an all-new medical grade battery/wireless charging-sled with case.

PetPace

PetPace has developed a health monitoring smart collar for both consumer and veterinary use.

Voyce

Voyce has designed a medical remote monitoring device available for professional use only.

FitBark

FitBark has commercialized an activity tracker to be attached to a dog's collar.

Link AKC Smart Collar

The smart collar and phone app from Link AKC allows for the tracking of the dog's location and notifications when the dog leaves a pre-set zone.

Whistle

Whistle Labs is a subsidiary of Mars Petcare that manufactures a smart collar device

Fiat Chrysler electric car manufacture in Italy

Fiat Chrysler Automobile's industrial plan for Italy includes the launch of 13 all-new or restyled models during the 2019-2021 period, and the development of new powertrain solutions with a significant focus on hybrid and electric technologies.

New record for organic solar cells

Materials scientists have achieved a new record in the performance of organic non-fullerene based single-junction solar cells. Using a series of complex optimisations, they achieved certified power conversion efficiency of 12.25 percent on a surface area measuring one square centimetre.

EOS and Etihad Airways to expand industrial 3D printing

EOS and Etihad Airways Engineering have agreed a strategic partnership which will significantly expand local capabilities for industrial 3D printing in aviation.

Electrical stimulation in the nose induces sense of smell

Physicians have, for the first time, induced a sense of smell in humans by using electrodes in the nose to stimulate nerves in the olfactory bulb, a structure in the brain where smell information from the nose is processed and sent to deeper regions of brain.

The future of wearable technology? You're already wearing it

A new technology uses textiles as battery cells, which significantly improves the amount of energy that can be stored, meaning that the new battery could potentially power an object as energy intensive as a laptop or smartphone.The technology enables the use of smaller battery cells, allowing for larger capacities.

AI to crack unloved murder cases

Some of history's most notorious unsolved murder crimes could be laid bare thanks to new forensic research.

Cross-industry project to enhance sustainable cobalt mining

BMW Group, BASF SE, Samsung SDI and Samsung Electronics launch cross-industry project to enhance sustainable cobalt mining. As part of a cross-industry initiative, the companies have launched a joint cobalt pilot project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.