Background
20 May 2020

Delektre
Delektre is a Finnish company founded in 2010. The technology was originally developed for University Vaasa and University Hospital of Tempere, using a camera system to measure multiple signals.
External press release
13 May 2020

Aktiia Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitor Proven Accurate
Aktiia has developed a wrist-worn optical blood pressure monitor that can automatically take measurements around the clock without requiring a specific arm position.
External press release
24 Mar 2020

Aktiia Raises Funding for Cuffless Optical Blood Pressure Monitor
Aktiia, a Swiss-US startup that has developed an optical blood pressure monitor at the wrist, has raised an additional CHF 6 million in funding to bring its product to market.
Update interview
12 Feb 2020

CSEM
IDTechEx caught up with Jens Krauss, VP Systems at CSEM at CES 2020. They were showing some of their latest work and products on their booth. We discussed progress around several of their key patents, including optical heart rate, optical blood pressure and dry electrodes for cardiac monitoring.
Update
3 Dec 2019

Aktiia
Aktiia has developed an ambulatory blood pressure monitoring wrist-worn device.
Update
3 Dec 2019

Swiss Centre for Electronics and Microtechnology
The Swiss Centre for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) is a Swiss R&D centre based in Neuchatel. It consists of approximately 400 people, 50 of whom operate in healthcare.
27 Nov 2019

IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2019 Award Winners
At the 16th IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA conference and exhibition held in Santa Clara on November 20-21, three organizations were honored for their great achievements in developing and commercializing printed electronics technologies.
External press release
4 Nov 2019

Accuracy of Aktiia's Cuffless Blood Pressure Technology is Revealed
Aktiia, a Swiss-US startup that develops optical blood pressure monitors at the wrist, has concluded the analysis of the data of a clinical trial comparing cuffless optical blood pressure measurements at the wrist against invasive references.
Event summary
12 Aug 2019

Electric Vehicle Research at Advanced Materials Osaka July 2019
Here we give the abstracts relevant to electric vehicles from BIT Advanced Materials Conference Osaka Japan July 2019. The organisers failed to provide slides but we have photographs of some of these if you are interested. The selected abstracts are divided into energy storage, wide bandgap semiconductors, energy harvesting and other.
Update
25 Jul 2019

CSEM Brasil
Extracts from presentation Osaka 23 July 2019. OPV and Perovskite Progress
Included are:
Update interview
17 Jan 2019

Well Being Digital Ltd. (WBD101)
IDTechEx had an excellent conversation with Kow, the Director at Well Being Digital (WBD101). IDTechEx first reported on products from WBD101 following CES 2017, where they showed products with Actywell, among others. This time we had an extended conversation with Kow describing his thoughts on the industry, and the outlook for their business.
4 May 2018

Precision optical components with inkjet printing
Researchers have developed an inkjet printing technique that can be used to print optical components such as waveguides. Because the printing approach can also fabricate electronics and microfluidics, it could advance a variety of devices such as optical sensors used for health monitoring and lab-on-a-chip devices that integrate and automate multiple laboratory functions onto a small circuit, or chip.
Background
24 Jan 2018

@-Health
@-Health are a start-up based in France developing apparel-based products for monitoring the human body.
8 May 2017

SolarStratos first test flight
SolarStratos is a commercial two-seater solar plane that aims to be the first manned solar plane penetrating the stratosphere.
17 Mar 2017

Soft sensors for smart textiles
Researchers have succeeded in producing optic fibers for sensors that are ideal for textiles.
16 Feb 2017

Low-cost technology for large-area OLEDs
Developing a low-cost, efficient method of increasing the attractiveness of OLEDs for lighting poses a significant challenge.
7 Apr 2016

Healthcare technologies at IDTechEx Show!
The upcoming IDTechEx event in Europe will be an opportunity to learn about the innovative technologies that will disrupt the healthcare industry. This event will take place on 27-28 April 2016 at the Estrel in Berlin, Germany.
15 Jan 2016

New efficiency record with dual-junction solar cell
Scientists have jointly set a new world record for converting non-concentrated (1-sun) sunlight into electricity using a dual-junction III-V/Si solar cell.