Wearable Technology

IDTechEx Research announced today that Europe's largest event on emerging technologies, IDTechEx Show! held in Berlin on 27-28 April, grew 27% vs. last year's event. This year's exhibition and conference featured attendees from 57 countries with 171 exhibitors and 2,300 attendees.

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Thursday 19 May 2016.

Ever since the advent of smartwatches, technologists have been looking to expand interactions beyond the confines of the small watch face. A new wearable technology suggests turning the entire lower arm into a touchpad.

Stretching or compressing the material in one direction causes the connected protein tiles to rotate in unison, resulting in a corresponding expansion or contraction in the opposite directions.

Microscopic humidity-sensitive bacteria can be harvested and used as nanosensors and nanoactuators. Such mechanisms are applied to fabric using custom-made micro-resolution printing technology.

Engineers have pioneered a unique method that could allow manufacturers to easily and cheaply fabricate high-performance transistors with wireless capabilities on huge rolls of flexible plastic.

Dr Harry Zervos spoke to Antti Sunnari, CEO and co-founder of Dispelix, a company that's looking to commercialize a new type of lightguide optic structure that could disrupt the market for AR smartglasses due to low material and manufacturing costs as well as light weight.

eSight's wearable, hands-free headset houses a small, high-speed camera that captures everything the eSight user is looking at.

The IDTechEx awards recognise company development and success across the topics of IDTechEx's conference. With a record number of entries in the two wearable technology categories this year, the competition was heated with an extremely high standard across all applicants. The awards were announced on the evening of Wednesday April 27th at the IDTechEx show.