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Blue Spark unveils first-of-its-kind wearable bluetooth

Wireless Thermometer in the Form of a Soft, Comfortable Patch Continuously Monitors Body Temperature, Sends Temperature Alerts to Mobile Devices; FDA 510(K) Pending.

DuPont MCM enables Wearable Technology thanks to Stretchable Inks

Video insight into products enabled by DuPont MCM, shown at Printed Electronics USA

StretchSense

Stretchsense makes stretch and pressure sensors intended for use in measuring human body motion. They are a startup that spun out of the Auckland Bioengineering institute in 2012.

IoT (Internet of Things) Panel Discussion at IoT Applications

Interactive panel discussion on the Internet of Things with panelists including Sony, Samsung, AT&T, Ericsson and the IPSO Alliance.

Interview with Heraeus at Printed Electronics USA

Video interview with Dr Stephan Kirchmeyer, Global Technical Director, Display & Semiconductor from Heraeus

Wearable technology: a materials goldmine

In 2025 over $25 billion will be spent on formulations and intermediate materials for wearable technology, as forecast by analysts IDTechEx in the brand new report Wearable Technology Materials 2015-2025.

Fraunhofer Additive Manufacturing Alliance

Background on contract research into industrial applications of additive manufacturing undertaken by the 13 institutes in the Fraunhofer Additive Manufacturing Alliance.

OPV Lantern from ARMOR Group

ARMOR has also been developing organic photovoltaics and in this interview with IDTechEx at Printed Electronics USA they tell us more about their progress.

IDTechEx interview Health Tech Insider and Wearable Tech Insider

IDTechEx interview Alfred Poore (Health Tech Insider) Dan Rosenbaum (Wearable Tech Insider) at Wearable Technology LIVE! in November 2014, hosted by IDTechEx.

Watts up - aeroplanes go hybrid-electric

An aircraft with a parallel hybrid engine - the first ever to be able to recharge its batteries in flight - has been successfully tested in the UK.

Vivalnk

Vivalnk started selling a new product in 2014. They make a wearable skin patch that use NFC pairing to unlock a smartphone. They call it the eSkin Tatoo. Vivalnk is now developing new functionalities for their eSkin Tatoo, including temperature sensing.

Review of 3D Printing in 2014 and the outlook for 2015

2014 has been a big year for 3D printing. Even established 3D printing companies have been posting huge growth. Both Stratasys and Arcam, with their vastly different technologies, are expected to report year-on-year growth of 57% this year. This steep upward trend in 3D printer sales is reflected in IDTechEx forecasts in 3D Printing 2015-2025: Technologies, Markets, Players. This article review all the major events and developments in 2014 and will give the IDTechEx view on the outlook for 2015.

Electric Vehicles and Structural Electronics- Insights and Top Trends

Recently, the good news has been the continued strong growth of the market for hybrid cars, buses and outdoor forklifts, premium-priced pure electric cars and pure electric vehicles of many other types from the newly popular electric motorcycles to mobile cranes, mobility vehicles for the disabled and microEVs. On the negative side, the oversupplied e-bike/ e-scooter business remained almost entirely loss-making Chinese suppliers of the Chinese market where growth eased and companies left the business. Mainstream pure electric cars remained a failure due to up-front price too high, resale price too low (those short-lived batteries) and range too short. The term "structural electronics" is little known despite being used for several years, notably in terms of specifics such as "structural sensors" and "structural batteries". Google has tens of millions of items on the subject and, more importantly, in 2014, it started to be realised that this is to be something big.

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.

Review of supercapacitors in 2014 and the outlook for 2015

Whilst the industry has reduced its growth in comparison to the previous years (from an estimated 30% in 2014 vs 2013 to 15% in 2014 vs 2013), IDTechEx believes that this is just a temporary stagnation. Indeed, the fact that other companies are investing in manufacturing capacity and challenging the leadership of Maxwell Technologies is a positive sign for the industry and a good signal for the supercapacitor market, which by definition needs more than one major player. We believe that more manufacturer options across the globe will provide the required alternative supply that end user industries are requiring in order to warranty market competition. This article gives an overview of the major events and developments in 2014 and gives the IDTechEx outlook for 2015.

Thermoelectric harvesting: Great increase in interest in 2014

Thermoelectric harvesting will be on production hybrid electric on-road vehicles from 2018. It will be commonplace on hybrids in 2020 and almost entirely to charge the battery, or increasingly supercapacitor or supercabattery used for power.

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.

Nippon Chemi-Con

United Chemi-Con is the american subsidiary of Nippon Chemi-Con. The Nippon Chemi-con Corporation was established in 1931. The company contributed for the global development of aluminum electrolytic capacitors. Since 2003 the company has been producing supercapacitors and now it is one of the contenders for the market leadership in large supercapacitor applications.

Nisshinbo Industries Inc.

Nisshinbo Industries is a company founded in 1907. It this is a 450 billion yen (3.7 usd billion dollar) conglomerate with a broad range of product portfolio covering from materials for electronics, automobile brakes, textiles, papers and other chemicals. This company profile is focused on the development of supercapacitor technology by the company.

TOC Capacitor Co. Ltd

TOC Capacitor Co., Ltd. manufactures electric double layer capacitor. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Okaya-shi, Japan. TOC Capacitor Co., Ltd. is a joint venture between TPR Co., Ltd. and Okaya Electric Industries Co., Ltd.TOC Capacitor Co. acquired Nisshinbo's supercapacitor technology in November 2014. This technology was used in Toyota's winner racing car TS040.