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DHL Express introduces electric vehicles to Russian deliveries

DHL Express began trialling electric vehicles in Russia last week.

Health tracking eye glasses

Development of the first wearable tech prototype from a healthcare company to seamlessly integrate health-tracking technology into a pair of optical frames.

Pavegen kickstarts crowd funding round with flagship installation

Pavegen celebrate the launch of their first crowdfunding round on Crowdcube, the leading equity crowdfunding platform, spearheaded by an installation in the heart of the Canary Wharf District

Efficiency record for black silicon solar cells jumps to 22.1%

Researchers have obtained the record-breaking efficiency of 22.1% on nanostructured silicon solar cells.

LG Display unveils wallpaper OLED panel

Flat panel maker LG Display showcased last week a detachable organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel that sticks to the wall.

Utilizing vitamin C to develop lithium-sulfur batteries

Korean researchers have developed a new type of lithium-sulfur battery that uses vitamin C with a 20% improvement in performance over current batteries.

Swelling magnets to energise the world

A new class of magnets that expand their volume when placed in a magnetic field and generate negligible amounts of wasteful heat during energy harvesting, has been discovered.

3D Printer for the orthodontic market

The Perfactory Vida is a low cost, open architecture, easy to maintain and user friendly 3D printer for the digital dental laboratory.

Social ranking and score keeping for racket sports

The Pulse Play was created to settle an age-old problem among recreational racket sports players: accurate and reliable scorekeeping.

Printed and organic electronics in healthcare

Printed, organic and flexible electronics is an industry that includes various components and technologies, from relatively simple electrochemical sensors to flexible X-ray detectors. From an end-user's point of view, the main advantages are disposability, large area, and conformability. In this article we focus on healthcare and review the wide range of devices targeted for medical applications.

Energy-generating rubber combines flexibility and high-output

Ricoh has announced that it has created a novel flexible material "Energy-Generating Rubber" that converts pressure and vibration into electric energy with high efficiency.

3-D bioprinted skin tissue

Development of 3-D printed skin tissue for product evaluation and other areas of advanced research.

UNICEF and ARM team up on wearables to transform children's lives

UNICEF and ARM have announced a multi-year partnership to accelerate the development of new technologies to overcome the barriers that prevent millions of families from accessing basic health, education and support services.

Industrial and commercial electric vehicles: see the future

The IDTechEx report Industrial and Commercial Hybrid and Pure Electric Vehicles 2015-2025 now finds that Industrial and Commercial Electric Vehicles operating on land will constitute a huge 42% of the value market for electric vehicles, land, water and airborne in 2025.

HeliaFilm® on concrete façade

Europe´s first solar concrete wall was inaugurated at RECKLI's headquarter in Herne, Germany. The façade, designed by RECKLI to fit the solar film from Heliatek (HeliaFilm®), represents a novel approach to BIOPV.

R&D breakthrough sets stage for more efficient fuel cell stacks

A breakthrough in the real-time observation of fuel cell catalyst degradation could lead to a new generation of more efficient and durable fuel cell stacks.

A new design of wind turbine

A new way of harvesting energy from the wind using wind turbines that have no blades.

IDTechEx: China's RFID market value will reach $4.3 billion by 2025

Not only will the use of RFID in China become a $4.3 billion market in 2025, but that figure will almost double if we include the value of tags and readers made in the country and exported elsewhere.

Daejoo Electronic Materials Co., Ltd

This company is a high drive R&D based enterprise investing money from a float on the Korean equivalent of NASDAQ to develop a host of formulations

Hexoskin

Carre Technologies Ltd (known increasingly by their product-line name, Hexoskin) are a Canadian company that make a sports shirt containing biometric sensors.