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Self-driving, 3D-printed smart bus hits the streets

Local Motors has introduced the first self-driving vehicle to integrate the advanced cognitive computing capabilities of IBM Watson.

Research collaboration to transform Parkinson's disease care

Pfizer Inc and IBM have announced a first-of-its-kind research collaboration to develop innovative remote monitoring solutions aimed at transforming how clinicians deliver care to patients suffering from Parkinson's disease.

eMagin

eMagin Corporation develops and manufactures OLED microdisplays in the USA. eMagin has secured a number of patents for OLED microdisplay technologies, optical systems and head-worn display technologies, including direct emission OLED microdisplays that do not require color filters. IDTechEx senior analyst Dr Guillaume Chansin summarises their activities in this profile.

Berlin leading in electric vehicles

It was in Berlin that the first solar charged electric boat appeared. The first hybrid electric aircraft with a rotary combustion engine flew from Berlin Schoenefeld Airport. In another first, this year Deutsche Bahn will offer a fleet of electric and hybrid cars for rent to its long-distance travelers, in order to make its transportation services door-to-door in Berlin.

IDTechEx Show! Berlin - What Is New For 2016

The annual IDTechEx Show! will have a focus on green technologies in Berlin on 27-28 April.

Exciting line-up for conference on future electric vehicle technology

"The EV scene has changed radically in the last year," says Raghu Das CEO of IDTechEx, "and our forthcoming conference Electric Vehicles Everything is Changing will reflect that."

Unveiling the nanotube's quantum behavior

The discovery of an important method for measuring the properties of nanotube materials using a microwave probe.

Breakthrough that could accelerate carbon nanotubes replacing silicon

BM Research has announced a major engineering breakthrough that could accelerate carbon nanotubes replacing silicon transistors to power future computing technologies.

3D printing and public policy

Although legal principles apply to 3D printing the same as they apply to any other technology, 3D printing has the unique potential to upset the legal status quo. It is the potential scale of 3D printing that may have profound effects on the law.

$160 million to be spent creating smart cities

The US Administration is announcing a new "Smart Cities" Initiative that will invest over $160 million in federal research and leverage more than 25 new technology collaborations to help local communities tackle key challenges such as reducing traffic congestion, fighting crime, fostering economic growth, managing the effects of a changing climate, and improving the delivery of city services.

New method for building on an atomic scale improved solar cells

UK scientists have pioneered a new way of manipulating several thousand atoms at a time, paving the way for building nanoscale electronic devices more quickly and easily at room temperature.

IBM creates Internet of Things business unit

BM has announced two new business units that will apply the company's considerable strengths in Big Data, advanced analytics and cognitive computing to the Internet of Things (IOT) and Educations markets, respectively.

Squishy transistors: a device concept for fast, low-power electronics

An international team of researchers have shown that a new device concept - a 'squishy' transistor - can overcome the predicted power bottleneck caused by CMOS technology reaching its fundamental limits.

Energy independent vehicles emulate static off-grid experience

Off-grid electricity production on land has lessons for energy independent electric vehicles (EIVs) that come later. These generate all their own electricity from wind, waves, sun and other forms of ambient energy - free and clean.

Highlights of IDTechEx Show! Electric Vehicles: Everything is Changing

IDTechEx's Electric Vehicles: Everything is Changing, conference was successfully held during the 28th and 29th of April 2015 in Berlin.

IBM connects Internet of Things to the enterprise

BM has announced that it will invest $3 billion over the next four years to establish a new Internet of Things unit, and that it is building a cloud-based open platform designed to help clients and ecosystem partners build IoT solutions.

Lessons from conferences on electric, connected and autonomous cars

The event SMMT Connected covered the connected and ultimately autonomous car with some nod in the direction of other autonomous vehicles doing "dull, dirty, dangerous" rather than freeing up time and reducing accidents, which is what autonomous cars target.