Full profile interview
7 Jun 2017

Alevo USA, Inc
Alevo is a Swiss-based group that has battery manufacturing facilities in the US. The company uses a non-flammable inorganic electrolyte and also offers software solutions for the battery industry.
Background
7 Jun 2017

Intel - Project Alloy
IDTechEx met with and attended presentations from Intel at AWE 2017. This profile gives an update on their progress with Project Alloy, their "Merged Reality" computing project.
Background
7 Jun 2017

eMagin - AWE 2017
IDTechEx attended AWE 2017, where eMagin were presenting their latest updates with their HMD products and night vision cameras. This profile contains details from their CMO Dan Cui's presentation.
Background
7 Jun 2017

StretchSense
IDTechEx caught up with Mark Williamson from Stretchsense at AWE 2017 in Santa Clara, USA.
Background
7 Jun 2017

Biointeractive Technologies
IDTechEx met with the founders of Biointeractive Technologies (BIT) at AWE 2017. They are a Canadian start-up who have developed a wrist-worn sensing device based on force myography (FMR) in a wristband.
6 Jun 2017

Wearable technology for animals - what has your dog done today?
As summer rolls in for the northern hemisphere, pet owners are no doubt looking forward to spending more time in the great outdoors with their four-legged friends. However, issues arise from being out in the open, whether it is overexertion, heat stroke, or pets running away and getting lost. Fortunately, there are several wearable devices for animals on the market today, most commonly to be worn on the pet's collar, to address these concerns.
Event summary
5 Jun 2017

Display Week 2017: The display industry doesn't have a roadmap
IDTechEx was at the annual Display Week in Los Angeles to report on the latest trends in displays.
31 May 2017

Webinar Thursday 15 June - New Innovations in Diabetes Technology
IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Thursday 15th June titled New Innovations in Diabetes Technology.
30 May 2017

Conductive inks: major innovation themes and trends
An often overlooked fact about the conductive industry is that it has seen significant innovation over the past decade. Indeed, the industry has a long history of developing new materials and formulations in response to changing market needs and new applications.
Event summary
30 May 2017

Highlights from CPES 2017
On May 24-25th 2017, James Hayward from IDTechEx attended CPES 2017. The event brought together an excellent group of both Canadian and international speakers to discuss several key areas in the printed and flexible electronics space. This article will address each area in turn, including smart packaging, IoT, structural and 3D electronics and textile/wearable electronics.
Full profile interview
27 May 2017

Weihua Solar
Founded in August 2010 and based in Xiamen China, Xiamen Weihua Solar Co.,Ltd. is a company focusing on research & development, production and sales of perovskite solar cells, with RMB 10 million registered capital. The technology of the company is based on the perovskite solar cell technologies of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science (EMPA). The founder & CEO Dr. Bin Fan was a student of Prof Michael Grätzel, the latter was the inventor of dye sensitized solar cell (DS
26 May 2017

Agricultural robots: bringing data to least digitised major industry
Agriculture is one of the world's least digitized major industries. This is however all about to change. Indeed, data acquisition and analytics companies are already a hot topic, and as such are subject to growing capital investments. This trend is captured in the figure below.
25 May 2017

Webinar Tuesday 6 June - Redox Flow Batteries for Stationary Storage
IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 6 June.
25 May 2017

Cummins: Life beyond diesel
Cummins Inc. a giant corporation of 55,400 people worldwide serving customers in 190 countries. It best known for its diesel expertise but it is impressively reinventing itself to serve the powertrains of the future such as 48V mild hybrids that will transmogrify into electric vehicles as they become capable of electric drive in more advanced forms.
Event summary
24 May 2017

A report from Plastics Japan 2017
IDTechEx Technology analysts' Drs Richard Collins and Khasha Ghaffarzadeh attended Plastics 2017 at the Tokyo Big Sight, Japan. These slides give some highlights from the Plastics event and extends to composite material and adhesion-free metal-plastic joining solutions.
Event summary
24 May 2017

A report from the IDTechEx Show!
May 10th-11th saw the 2017 European-leg of the IDTechEx Show! In this article IDTechEx analysts share some of the most interesting innovations on offer at the show.
24 May 2017

Augmented, virtual, annotated, mixed... A "$37 Billion reality"
Augmented and virtual reality headsets are by now a reality (pun intended), and they bring about a paradigm shift in form factor for portable electronics.
24 May 2017

Runaway Adoption of Pure Electric Vehicles: Multiple Triggers
It has long been speculated that electric vehicle adoption may have a sudden tipping point of adoption. IDTechEx pointed out that incentives help as does reaching lower cost of ownership but lower up-front price is the killer blow.
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24 May 2017

ARM & PragmatIC
Discuss pushing the boundaries in flexible electronics
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24 May 2017

3D Bioprinting: Building Organs from Scratch
Dr Nadia Tsao, IDTechEx Technology Analyst gives an overview on 3D Bioprinting.