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Adidas 3D printed shoe uses plastic ocean waste

adidas and Parley for the Oceans have showcased an innovative footwear concept, a 3D-printed ocean plastic shoe midsole.

An integrated textile heart monitoring solution

An innovative smart garment reference design for building an integrated textile Heart Rate Monitoring solution.

Medical Design Solutions

Medical Design Solutions is a small design consultancy and IP holder around medical device design. With a long history in the medical device industry, they develop many diverse projects with partners, but are also developing their own work around an e-shirt, with a concept similar to that pursued by Vivometrics before they went bankrupt.

New battlegrounds emerge for conductive inks and pastes

Core applications of PV and touch panels continue to grow demand, but new opportunities emerge in the form of wearable technology, circuit boards and structural electronics.

Adidas Group acquires Runtastic

The adidas Group and runtastic GmbH have announced that adidas AG has acquired all outstanding shares of runtastic GmbH. The transaction values Runtastic at an enterprise value of € 220 million.

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

Apple, Samsung, LG Chem move into the flexible batteries business

After years of slow progress from small companies, flexible batteries now have the attention of big brands such as Apple, Samsung, LG Chemical, Nokia and STMicroelectronics, who are set to drive the flexible battery market from US$ 6.9 million in 2015 to over US$ 400 million in 2025 according to IDTechEx Research.

Wearable Technologies Conference Report - Munich 2015

IDTechEx attended the Wearable Technologies AG event in Munich, Germany on February 2-3, 2015. The event involved a two day conference and trade show tied to the larger ISPO tradeshow happening later in the week. The event brought around 400 people from the wearable technology ecosystem together, with many start-ups but also prominent sponsors of the industry, including lead-sponsors Intel and Flextronics.

Footfalls and Heartbeats

Footfalls and Heartbeats are a small research and development company working on innovation with functional textiles, including compressive/tensile force sensors, conductive connectors and optical fibre integration.

Complaints for patent infringement for wearable technology

Sarvint Technologies, Inc, a wearable technology company, has filed complaints in the United States District Court.

Wearable Technology, IoT- Insights and Top-Level Trends

In 2014, attention was focussed almost entirely on wearable technology WT for humans rather than the market less than one tenth of the size for wearable technology for animals. There was very rapid growth in manufacturers but there were no major blockbusters and products, strongest focus being on internet connected devices. Wild enthusiasm was rarely matched by achievement but there is substance here for the future. Unlike wearable technology, it is quite difficult to find the genuinely major new business in the IoT firmament. Everyone is claiming to be central to it to jump on the bandwagon, including Bluetooth, ZigBee, NFC and RFID proponents. The Internet of People which consists of web-connected tablets, laptops, phones and wearables has often been conflated with it though IoP has completely different maturity, technology, application and challenges.

Teiimo

Teiimo are a small but experienced e-textile company based in Germany. They have recently completed demonstrators for biometric sports apparel which they demonstrated at the IDTechEx Show in Berlin.

Runtastic

Runtastic GmbH produce apps, products and services for fitness and exercise tracking. Alongside a suite of niche hardware, the Runtastic Orbit is a waterproof fitness tracker wristband for general fitness and sleep monitoring. They also produce a suite of 18 mobile apps for fitness which have been downloaded 95 million times.

From the mouths of CEOs

The reasons why CEOs want to come to the IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA event.

Samsung, Adidas, Jaguar Land Rover at Largest Emerging Tech Conference

IDTechEx features Printed Electronics, Wearable Tech, Energy Harvesting, IoT and 3D Printing

The Internet of Things and the potential for RFID

RFID was invented seven decades ago, however, 23% of all the RFID tags ever sold were sold in 2013. In 2014, a further 1.12 billion RFID tags will be sold versus the total number of tags sold in 2013.

Wearable Technology Live! USA 2014

The wearable ecosystem assembles at IDTechEx's co-located Santa Clara events Santa Clara, CA, USA and Cambridge, UK - Oct. 27, 2014.