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Conductive Patterns Printed on Textiles using Printed Electronics

Video Interview with NovaCentrix at Printed Electronics Europe.

Emerging haptics find their niches

The industry around haptic actuators has encountered some significant challenges and changes in the last five years. However, the silver lining begins to shine through as emerging haptics find their niches. James Hayward summarises the findings from the latest IDTechEx Research report.

Piezoelectric elastic energy harvesting arrives

Elastic piezoelectric generators are being developed with microwatts demonstrated and watts in prospect for large formats.

PCB prototyping evolves with a new wave of electronics printers

A new wave of printers targeting printed circuit boards are enabling rapid, local prototyping while protecting company IP, finds IDTechEx Research.

Vuzix Corporation

Vuzix has developed a new eye-worn computer, the M100 smartglasses, one of the few products of this kind currently available for sale. This profile outlines their basic activities and future work in the space for eye-worn computers

Atheer Labs

Atheer Labs is developing a new pair smart glasses, currently at prototype stage, that will be initially launched to address a range of enterprise-based applications, creating innovative solutions that will enhance the way adopters perform basic tasks all the way to mission critical job functions.

Kronos International

Kronos is in the top 5 supplier of TiO2 worldwide. While the bulk of their production is for white pigments, they also make nano TiO2 for photocatalysis. Kronos is the only supplier offering a material that works under visible light (blue), making it more suitable for indoor photocatalysis.

Formlabs

Formlabs manufacture the Form 1+ SLA 3D Printer, which is one of the cheapest SLA printers available and has a reputation for high quality.

Four marvels promised by high power energy harvesting

Free fuel for vehicles without them stopping. Replacement of millions of diesel electricity generators with something using free energy and totally clean. Buildings disconnecting from the grid in order to reduce costs and power cuts. 1.1 billion people without electricity will get it for little or no cost. Unbelievable? They are now the focus of serious development and demonstrations and the common factor is "high power energy harvesting (HPEH)".

Radically new energy harvesting in the form of magnetostriction

Energy harvesting is the creation of off-grid electricity where it is needed using ambient energy, from sunshine to vibration or temperature difference.

Firstbeat Technologies Ltd

Firstbeat provide physiological analytics that converts raw data from wearable technology into meaningful information and advice for fitness, sports, wellbeing, stress and sleep. They are a Finnish company that spun out from the University of Jyväskylä, Research Institute for Olympic Sports in 2002. They have been supporting consumer products since 2002, elite sports customers since 2007 and preventive healthcare customers since 2006.

Opportunities in the $1.3 billion thermal interface material market

Everyone wants portable products. Miniature high density circuits, often housed in airtight enclosures are required, so we can use our devices everywhere, including in wearable technologies. Heat management is therefore a big problem, particularly as the trend of consumers demanding smaller, faster operating electronics continues.

Opportunities in the $1.3 billion thermal interface material market

Everyone wants portable products. Miniature high density circuits, often housed in airtight enclosures are required, so we can use our devices everywhere, including in wearable technologies. Heat management is therefore a big problem, particularly as the trend of consumers demanding smaller, faster operating electronics continues.

Proterra

Proterra is a US-based company developing some of the most innovative fully electric buses. They and test their own battery packs.

AiQ Smart Clothing

AiQ Smart Clothing are a dependent subsidiary of Taiwanese textile company, Tex-Ray. AiQ started as an internal department in 2009, and emerged as a subsidiary in 2012.

Wireless Charging: Insights from EV Roadmap 8 Oregon

There was a question and answer session "Wireless Charging: Emerging Business Models" at EV Roadmap8 Portland Oregon USA 30 July 2015.The panel consisted of Jeremy McCool of Hevo Power, which retrofits wireless charging, Jeff Muhs of WiTricity with key patents and Wesley Smith of WAVE installing large vehicle solutions. They also talked to IDTechEx afterwards.

Plastic OLED display capacity ramps up & glass-based OLEDs downgraded

IDTechEx Research recently revised its forecast for OLED displays. Dr Guillaume Chansin, lead author of the IDTechEx report OLED Display Forecasts 2015-2025: The Rise of Plastic and Flexible Displays explains why.

Digitizing old analogue industry - a new era for optics manufacturing

Interview with Luxexcel founder, Richard van de Vrie.

Report on EV Roadmap8 Portland Oregon 28-29 July

This event of a few hundred people and twenty or so exhibitors had a good range of coverage from many choices of EV test drive to sitting in on focus groups of people minded to buy an EV.

EOS GmbH

EOS are one of the leading suppliers of 3D printers and, in particular, metal printers. Their machines are particularly popular in big industry (e.g. aerospace) and have a reputation as a reliable workhorse. This profile has been updated with information from Nikolai Zaepernick.