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What Does the Future Hold for the Hearables Market?

The first electric hearing aid was created in 1898, and was arguably among the earliest examples of wearable tech. So it's fitting that, more than a century later, on- and in-ear technology is once again leading the way - this time as hearables, a sector now poised for substantial growth.

Soil-Powered Fuel Cell Promises Cheap, Sustainable Water Purification

Engineers have shown that it's possible to capture and use energy created by the natural reactions occurring in microorganisms within soil.

Enernet Global Secures $6.5 Million in Series A Funding

Enernet Global Inc announces new investment of $6.5 million from Kyuden International Corporation, part of Kyushu Electric Power Company, and MPC Capital. Enernet finances, builds, owns and operates microgrids and distributed energy resources on a global basis.

Optomec Delivers 3D Electronics Printer for Medical Device Production

Optomec has delivered a new industrialized 3D Printed Electronics system to a major US healthcare manufacturer, where the machine will be used in the volume production of a leading diagnostic medical device.

Scottish Graphene Firm Launches Flagship Product Under New Face

Graphene is the much lauded and hyped wonder material set to enable the next generation of advanced technologies and the Stirling based outfit, Integrated Graphene are set to launch their first graphene-enhanced product.

Artificial Intelligence to Predict Best Approach to Cancer Treatment

Researchers describe a new artificial intelligence system that not only matches tumors to the best drug combinations, but does so in a way that makes sense to humans.

Carbon Engineering

Carbon Engineering is a Canadian clean energy company working to commercialise Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology for capturing carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere. In October 2020, IDTechEx Senior Technology Analyst Dr Michael Dent spoke with Carbon Engineering CEO Steve Oldham.

eLoaded Develops E-Mobility-Hubs in Europe

eLoaded supports such complex projects within the context of research and development initiatives. One of these projects is a Innovation Center for energy and mobility with Europe's most extensive charging infrastructure. The planning includes more than 200 charging points, including high power charging points with up to 500kW charging power.

Total Cost of Ownership Evaluation for Small Electric Vans

This IDTechEx Premium Article provides analysis of Total Cost of Ownership for small electric vans. A TCO analysis examines not only the price of the LCV, but also its long-term costs over time.

WearOptimo's Strategic Partnership Agreement With Aspen Medical

A key milestone on our commercial journey was reached today with the announcement of a partnership between WearOptimo and Aspen Medical. WearOptimo is now engaged with Aspen Medical for the development and distribution of particular Microwearable sensors in key markets.

Micar Innovation (Micar21)

Micar Innovation is a drug discovery company that uses generative AI models to generate novel therapeutic molecules. It focuses on the entire drug discovery process, from target identification to pre-clinical studies, using structure-based in silico drug design.

Battery-electric Ships: The Road to Zero-Emissions

This premium article explores the massive batteries being installed on commercial ships, and why they are essential.

Epishine

Epishine have developed small organic solar cells that supply a small amount of power harvested from ambient light. They are thus targeting low-power IoT applications.

Leveraging a 3D Printer Defect to Create a New Quasi-Texile

Sometimes 3D printers mess up. They extrude too much material, or too little, or deposit material in the wrong spot. But what if this bug could be turned into a (fashionable) feature? Introducing DefeXtiles, a tulle-like textile developed by controlling a common 3D printing defect — the under-extrusion of polymer filament.

OLED Display Could Feature More Than 10,000 Pixels per Inch

By expanding on existing designs for electrodes of ultra-thin solar panels, researchers and collaborators have developed a new architecture for OLED - organic light-emitting diode - displays that could enable televisions, smartphones and virtual or augmented reality devices with resolutions of up to 10,000 pixels per inch

Solar Power for Nampala Mine in Mali

Robex Resources Inc and Vivo Energy have an agreement to supply solar energy to the Namala Mine for five to fifteen years.

New Tool can Diagnose Strokes with a Smartphone

A new tool created by researchers could diagnose a stroke based on abnormalities in a patient's speech ability and facial muscular movements, and with the accuracy of an emergency room physician -- all within minutes from an interaction with a smartphone.

Autonomous Multi-Drone Aerial Surveys of Antarctic Penguin Colonies

Aerial surveys of penguin colonies have been conducted before, usually with helicopters or a single drone. The helicopter method produces great image quality but is expensive, fuel-inefficient and risks disturbing the birds. The single drone survey is time-consuming and - because the drones must be launched from a safe distance, about five kilometers from the colony - difficult to navigate.

e-Therapeutics

e-Therapeutics has developed a proprietary network-driven AI platform to identify new approaches to treat disease and accelerate drug discovery. The company operates in various stages of drug discovery including target identification and hit screening.

Will Rare-Earths be Eliminated in Electric Vehicle Motors?

Due to environmental and supply concerns, the volume demand share of several materials in electric motor magnets are likely to shift drastically.