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New smart shoes from Nike

Nike has found its most advanced fit solution to date: Nike Adapt, a platform that creates a truly custom fit by combining an advanced power-lacing system, an app and continually updated firmware.

Multimaterial 3D printing

Traditional robotic systems with rigid parts often pose a threat to human operators. Recently flourishing soft actuators and robots, in contrast, offer excellent adaptivity to surroundings and safe, coexisting interaction with humans. However, their competence in load-bearing tasks is undermined by the inherent low-stiffness nature of constituent materials like silicone rubbers.

Ynvisible and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft sign electrochromic agreement

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft - Europe's largest institution for applied research - and Ynvisible sign a MoU in the field of electrochromic inks and devices.

Simplifying IoT: Microsoft shares their steps

Digital transformation is happening across the industry and in every corner of the world. But what does success look like?

Lenovo invests in CLEARink

Lenovo and CLEARink Displays announced that Lenovo has invested in CLEARink. The two companies have commenced joint development activities to develop the next generation of tablet devices. Lenovo has also joined CLEARink's board of directors.

Linde premiers new roadster forklift with fuel cell drive

With its Roadster concept, Linde Material Handling has set completely new standards in terms of visibility and safety for industrial trucks. The company is now adding one of the most promising energy systems to the advantages of this unique design: It's curtain up for the first Linde Roadster with fuel cell drive!

Wastewater as a source of renewable energy in Belarus

The city of Baranovichi in Belarus has gone "green" by installing the country's first wastewater treatment plant that turns organic waste into renewable energy.

Wearable to detect hidden anxiety, depression in young children

Anxiety and depression are surprisingly common among young children - as many as one in five kids suffer from one of them, starting as early as the preschool years. But it can be hard to detect these conditions, known as "internalizing disorders," because the symptoms are so inward-facing that parents, teachers and doctors often fail to notice them.

3D printed sponge to minimise effects of cancer treatment

With the help of sponges inserted in the bloodstream to absorb excess drugs, doctors are hoping to prevent the dangerous side effects of toxic chemotherapy agents or even deliver higher doses to knock back tumors, like liver cancer, that don't respond to more benign treatments.

Gene therapy could eliminate drug side effect in Parkinson's patients

A researcher has received a $2.8 million federal grant to develop a gene therapy that could reduce and possibly eliminate a frustrating side effect of a drug commonly prescribed to Parkinson's patients.

Chiropractor in your pocket: Wearable medical devices

Professional pain management and muscle stimulation.

Soteria Battery Innovation Group

Soteria Battery Innovation Group Inc is an advanced technology development and licensing company that has formed a consortium to promote a light, safe and cost-effective architecture for lithium ion batteries.

Panasonic

Panasonic showed their efforts in technology for human insight sensing, including demonstrations showing emotion sensing, physical stress sensing and human characteristic sensing.

IBM Q

IDTechEx spoke to IBM about their efforts in quantum computing, known as IBM Q.

Advanced TeleSensors Inc.

IDTechEx spoke to Stephanie Probasco, Director of Marketing, Consumer Products at Advanced TeleSensors Inc.

Ossia: Update on RF wireless charging

IDTechEx spoke to Ossia Inc. at their booth at CES 2019.

Butterfly

IDTechEx briefly interviewed Butterfly, a company that have developed "ultrasound-on-chip" technology for a highly effective and power efficient ultrasound probe.

HealBe

IDTechEx spoke to HealBe at their booth at CES 2019. They were demonstrating their GoBe 2 and early prototypes of their GoBe 3 device at their booth.

DiabeLoop

IDTechEx spoke to Céline Franco, R&D/Education Engineer at DiabeLoop at their booth at CES 2019's Eureka Park.

Tempdrop

Tempdrop exhibited in at CES 2019's Eureka Park alongside their app partner NeoFertility. IDTechEx spoke with both companies at the Tempdrop booth.