Event summary
7 Mar 2016

Event report: Electronic Display Conference 2016
IDTechEx gave a talk at the Electronic Display Conference in Nuremberg, Germany. The conference had more people than the previous edition and celebrated its 30th year, which reflects how important displays have become in our everyday life. The presentation from IDTechEx was on two disruptive technological trends in flat panel displays: quantum dots and flexible OLED.
7 Mar 2016

Technology for world's thinnest nonwoven battery separator
Tthe thinnest nonwoven separators in the world for lithium ion batteries and supercapacitors, as low as 10 - 12 microns.
Event summary
7 Mar 2016

Highlights of the 7th Battery Japan Expo
IDTechEx visited the 7th Battery Japan in Tokyo, which is an event focusing mainly on rechargeable batteries. In this article IDTechEx will show some innovations and strategic plans announced by big companies.
7 Mar 2016

Future Powertrain Conference 2016 National Motorcycle Museum, Solihull
The third Future Powertrain conference was a great event with about 400 delegates and a total of 35 table exhibitors. The summary of the presentations given during the FPC2016 are discussed here.
7 Mar 2016

Touch sensitive super stretchy skin shows promise for soft robots
A material that can emit different coloured light and sense touch - yet still stretch nearly five times its original length - has been invented by scientists in the US and Italy.
Full profile interview
6 Mar 2016

Gait Up
Gait Up are a small Swiss company developing and selling high value physiological analysis and characterisation sensors. They were founded in 2013 following 15 years of work at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. IDTechEx interviewed Alex Russell at a conference in early 2016.
Background
6 Mar 2016

Cityzen Sciences
Cityzen Sciences are a French company based in Lyon, and founded in 2008. They specialise in developing smart fabric concepts, including wearable sensors and physiological monitoring systems. IDTechEx interviewed Antoine Ormières at a wearable technology event in January 2016.
4 Mar 2016

IDTechEx announce the Wearable Technology Europe Awards 2016
All companies operating within these technologies are welcome to apply. The winners will be announced during the drinks reception on 27 April at the annual IDTechEx Show! in Berlin.
[Closing date - 18 March 2016]
4 Mar 2016

IDTechEx announce the 3D Printing Europe Awards 2016
All companies operating within these technologies are welcome to apply. The winners will be announced during the drinks reception on 27 April at the annual IDTechEx Show! in Berlin. Closing date - 18 March 2016
Youtube
4 Mar 2016

Interview with AIA Labs at IDTechEx Wearable USA
Video interview with Architects of Intelligent Applications (A.I.A.) at IDTechEx Wearable USA.
4 Mar 2016

Electric bus sector is game changer for battery market
The electric bus market is growing at a CAGR of 20% in terms of unit sales. The rapid growth is a game changer for the battery market as electric buses require large-sized batteries ranging from 74 kWh (fast charging e-bus) to over 300 kWh (slow charging e-bus). This is why IDTechEx Research forecasts that the e-bus battery market will overtake the consumer electronics sector by 2020.
4 Mar 2016

Researchers find security breach in 3D printing process
With findings that could have been taken from the pages of a spy novel, researchers have demonstrated that they can purloin intellectual property by recording and processing sounds emitted by a 3D printer.
4 Mar 2016

Opportunities for start-ups at the IDTechEx Show! Berlin
Analyst IDTechEx helps start-ups by letting them exhibit free in its big shows such as the forthcoming "IDTechEx Show!" in Berlin April 27-28 with over 150 exhibitors, over 2500 paying delegates and eight parallel conferences, two of them strongly featuring high power energy harvesting both from ambient energy and by recuperation in vehicles.
4 Mar 2016

New form of electron-beam imaging
The MIDI-STEM technique could prove particularly useful for directly viewing nanoscale objects with a mixture of heavy and light materials, such as some battery and energy-harvesting materials, that are otherwise difficult to view together at atomic resolution.
3 Mar 2016

IDTechEx announce the Electric Vehicles Europe Awards 2016
All companies operating within these technologies are welcome to apply. The winners will be announced during the drinks reception on 27 April at the annual IDTechEx Show! in Berlin.
[Closing date - 18 March 2016]
3 Mar 2016

IDTechEx announce the Energy Harvesting & Storage Europe Awards 2016
All companies operating within these technologies are welcome to apply. The winners will be announced during the drinks reception on 27 April at the annual IDTechEx Show! in Berlin.
Youtube
3 Mar 2016

IDTechEx Interview with Divergent Microfactories: 3D Printed Car
A video interview with Divergent Microfactories, taken at the 3D Printing USA exhibition.
3 Mar 2016

Energy harvesting, steady growth, sensible increase in opportunities
2015 has been a year to report very disparate progress in advancing different energy harvesting technologies: advances in thermoelectrics, new and higher power output photovoltaics, capacitive harvesting as well as steady development of markets for electrodynamics along with new applications have created an array of devices serving a diverse number of industries; with applications for wireless sensors, switches and actuators all the way to high power industrial waste heat and vibration harvesting, the technology landscape is developing at a steady pace, with many interesting applications being realized.
3 Mar 2016

Power Plaza presents its Yebbujana R2 electric roadster
Power Plaza is presenting its Yebbujana R2 electric roadster in Geneva.
External press release
3 Mar 2016

SolarEdge launches commercial inverter solution in Japan
SolarEdge Technologies, Inc announced that it is launching its commercial inverter solution in Japan.