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Alstom to Supply Italy's First Hydrogen Trains

Alstom will supply six hydrogen fuel cell trains, with the option for eight more, to Ferrovie Nord Milano, the main transport and mobility group in the Italian region of Lombardy, for a total amount of approximately €160 million. The first train delivery is expected within 36 months of the date of the order.

Situational Awareness Robot for First Responders and Dangerous Jobs

ReadySight robot and cellular service gives first responders and professionals with dangerous or difficult jobs an extra set of eyes. ReadySight is a rugged one pound, throwable, mobile video robot with unlimited range.

High Performance Gold Ink to Boost Material Savings on Gold Electrodes

OrelTech recently launched its latest product, a nanoparticle-free gold ink, under the name OTech Aurum. This type of ink is unique on the market and presents savings on material use and costs for the customers.

Funding for Hydrokinetic Turbine Development

The U.S. Department of Energy today announced $35 million in funding for 11 projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy's Submarine Hydrokinetic And Riverine Kilo-megawatt Systems program. Teams will develop new economically competitive Hydrokinetic Turbines designs for tidal and riverine currents.

Breakthrough Anti-Viral Textile Wins Swiss Technology Award

HeiQ Viroblock has won the Swiss Technology Award 2020 for its breakthrough antiviral textile technology HeiQ Viroblock. Developed in record time and launched after the Swiss authorities announced the lockdown in March 2020, HeiQ Viroblock has had a major impact on the global textile industry and is being unprecedently adopted by mills around the world.

Innovate UK Awards ENIAN £500,000 for Renewable Energy Software

ENIAN has this week been awarded a £500,000 Smart Grant by Innovate UK to develop a new cost predicting algorithm set to accelerate the uptake of renewable energy across the country.

Merck Announces Partnerships: Advance Materials for Free-Form Displays

Partnerships with Optitune and Solip Tech will allow Merck to accelerate the commercialization of liviFlexTM, a new range of display materials that addresses challenges in the manufacture of flexible, foldable and rollable OLED displays.

Light Polymers

Light Polymers have developed a directly-coatable polarizing film. This is much thinner than the incumbent PVA film technology, and is thus well suited to folding/flexible displays.

Smart Cities - 2020 Highlights by IDTechEx

The focus of smart cities has changed. In 2020, smart cities have been pivoting reinvented hardware and associated systems.

Virtual Reality: The Most Disruptive Technology of the Next Decade

Virtual reality has already had a major impact in a range of different industries. IDTechEx predicts in its recent market research report that this technology will grow to $8Bn by 2030.

Daymak Launches Six Light Electric Vehicles

Daymak will be launching Daymak Avvenire - a full lineup of six light electric vehicles designed to invigorate the future of eco-friendly micro mobility. The Daymak Avvenire series includes six individual vehicles, ranging from ebikes and covered mobility scooters to a personal flying vehicle.

3D Printed Make Up Technology Wins Innovation Award

The Industry Prize for the best cosmetic innovation of the year was awarded to ColorForge, a US-based start-up that has developed a custom manufacturing and packaging system for make-up products. ColorForge has developed a revolutionary 3D printer that can produce hundreds of unique color cosmetics in a single print batch in less than 5 hours. Currently a full print batch takes about 32 hours.

AI Detects COVID-19 on Chest X-Rays with Accuracy and Speed

Northwestern University researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence platform that detects COVID-19 by analyzing X-ray images of the lungs. Called DeepCOVID-XR, the machine-learning algorithm outperformed a team of specialized thoracic radiologists — spotting COVID-19 in X-rays about 10 times faster and 1-6% more accurately.

Global Pharma R&D AI, Data Science & Informatics Summit 2020

This premium article discusses lessons learned from this event, particularly the key trends and challenges currently facing companies utilising AI in drug discovery applications. It also provides company profiles for the AI and pharmaceutical companies that spoke at the event.

Supercapacitor Technology for Green Energy

Supercapacitors (ultracapacitors) are the only capacitors using an electrochemical double layer (EDL) to give one thousand times more storage for a given weight or volume.

IDTechEx Release New Report on Full Hybrid Electric Vehicle Markets

Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) have seen a significant growth in sales over recent years and the HEV market is set to increase in 2020 despite the implications of COVID-19 on the global automotive industry.

Will Starlink succeed? (Part 3)

In the previous two articles, we discussed the weaknesses of the Starlink project. However, we keep on reading news and interests on Starlink. Is it a hope or a hype? Will Starlink succeed? This will be discussed in the next two articles.

PlayNitride

The Taiwan-based company PlayNitride Inc. was founded in 2014. The company's initial know-how was mainly in LEDs but gradually expands its coverage. The company does not only covers PixeLED® Display Technology based on MicroLED, but also UVolution Solution by UV LED, and PlayBeacon Package by iBeacon. In the µLED display area, PlayNitride integrates µLED epitaxy, chip fabrication and mass transfer, which is advantageous compared to companies who only focuses on mass transfer technologies. When the company was founded, there was about 70 people in the team. The number has expanded to more than 100 in 2019.

GLO

Glō established in 2010 in Sweden, is a fabless company based on research performed at Lund University. Glō then moved to Silicon Valley in 2012.

AU Optronics

AUO showcased the world's highest resolution and full colour LTPS TFT driven 8" Micro-LED display at Display Week 2018.