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Water-Clear Conductive Metal Inks

Liquid X Printed Metals® (Liquid X®), headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is an advanced material manufacturer of functional metallic inks that takes an application from prototype to production.

KULR Technology

KULR have extensive experience in battery safety for aerospace and defence applications, more recently they have been taking this knowledge and aplying it to the electric vehicle market.

redT

redT is a company listed on the London Stock Exchange that has spent the last 20 years developing a vanadium redox flow battery for stationary applications.

HiMirror

IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao spoke with Shayna Lurey, Marketing Specialist at HiMirror. HiMirror is a Taiwanese beauty tech company and is a part of the New Kinpo Group. The company develops smart mirrors for beauty tech. HiMirror benefits from research and development from New Kinpo, but marketing and sales activities are separate from its parent company.

MedWand

IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao spoke with MedWand's Director of Engineering, Scott Coleman, at CES 2020. MedWand have developed a diagnostics kit for remote patient monitoring.

Smardii

IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao spoke with Smardii Chief Engineering Officer Mrugesh Patel at CES 2020. Smardii is a French/American company developing smart diaper technologies.

Whistle

IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao spoke with Whistle Labs CEO Collette Bunton at CES ShowStoppers. Whistle started as a company that tracked lost dogs in real time. It has now moved into looking at the dog's overall wellness.

10minds

IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao spoke with a representative from 10minds at their booth at CES 2020. 10minds have developed Motion Pillow, a smart pillow to manage snoring.

Revieve

IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao spoke with Revieve VP of Product & Business Development Michel Zampa at CES 2020. The company was founded 4 years ago and have been ready for the market for over 2 years.

Sompo Holdings

IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao spoke with Masao Honna, Senior Deputy manager of CX Promotion from Sompo Holdings. Sompo Himawari Life, the domestic (Japanese) life insurance arm of the company, exhibited their digital health and wellness tracking solutions at CES 2020.

Kryo

IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao spoke with Kryo Marketing Coordinator Alex Burcham at CES 2020. Kryo have developed the chili brand of sleep technologies, including the chiliPAD and the Ooler mattress toppers, and the newly released chiliBLANKET.

Perfect Corp

IDTechEx spoke with representatives from Perfect Corp at CES 2020. Perfect Corp are a Taiwanese company founded in 2015 that have developed apps for beauty tech. The company uses augmented reality to help users try on new looks and products.

What Memphis Meats $161M Funding Means for the Cultured Meat Industry

Memphis Meats a leading start-up in the race to develop cultured meat products, recently announced that it had closed a $161 million funding round. IDTechEx Analyst Dr Michael Dent discusses what this means for the commercialisation of the cultured meat industry.

Alphabet Drops Makani Power Generating Kite Business, Shell Remains

Makani was founded in 2006 by a group of kitesurfers who were curious about the potential for kites to unlock wind energy in more places around the globe. Makani spent the past seven years at Alphabet, during which time the technology advanced from a 20kW demonstrator kite, to a utility-scale kite capable of generating 600kW.

Daimler Trucks, Torc Robotics Expand Automated Truck Road Testing

Daimler Trucks and Torc Robotics, partners in Daimler Trucks' Autonomous Technology Group, will soon expand testing of automated truck technology to new public routes in the US. These public road testing efforts allow the teams to collect data from real-world traffic scenarios beyond what can be learned from computer simulations and closed road courses.

Global Initiative to use Wearables for Dementia Detection

Led by Alzheimer's Research UK, the project will harness and analyse a wealth of digital data to develop signatures of disease - or "fingerprints" - that can be then detected using wearable technologies, such as smart watches.

Superior Bio-Ink for 3D Printing Pioneered

Biomedical engineers have developed a "bio-ink" for 3D printed materials that could serve as scaffolds for growing human tissues to repair or replace damaged ones in the body.

Mending a Broken Heart - the Bioengineering Way

Bioengineers have developed a prototype patch that does the same job as crucial aspects of heart tissue. Their patch withstands the mechanical demands and mimics the electrical signalling properties that allow our hearts to pump blood rhythmically round our bodies.

Graphene Forms Under Microscope's Eye

You don't need a big laser to make laser-induced graphene. Scientists are using a very small visible beam to burn the foamy form of carbon into microscopic patterns.

900mHz Radio Built on a Sheet of Paper

NovaCentrix is focused on technologies and materials to enable manufacturing in Printed Electronics. The PulseForge® photonic curing tools process high-temperature materials on low-temperature substrates. Applications include drying, sintering, annealing, or reacting metallic, non-metallic, and semiconductor inks, without damaging temperature-sensitive substrates such as foils and plastics.