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Ford phases out passenger cars, focuses on electric vehicles & trucks

Ford announced plans late Wednesday to eliminate some of the company's most well-known cars in North America, phasing out its passenger cars as it focuses on trucks and electric vehicles.

Smart glass: a rising technology

Smart glass is a family of electrically-active glass technologies capable of darkening at the press of a button to block light and heat entering your building or car (see table below).

A higher-energy, safer and longer-lasting zinc battery

A team of researchers has created a water-based zinc battery that is simultaneously powerful, rechargeable, and intrinsically safe.

New solutions for factory floor from Stratasys

Stratasys has unveiled a range of new solutions designed to accelerate the use of additive manufacturing on the factory floor.

How deep learning is helping the blind 'see'

Guide dogs are great for helping people who are blind or visually impaired navigate the world. But try getting a dog to read aloud a sign or tell you how much money is in your wallet.

Researchers 3D print electronics and cells directly on skin

In a groundbreaking new study, researchers used a customized, low-cost 3D printer to print electronics on a real hand for the first time, as shown on Printed Electronics World.

Germ-zapping robots destroy germs and bacteria

Robots for the purpose of enhancing environmental cleanliness by disinfecting and destroying hard-to-kill germs, bacteria, and superbugs in hard to clean places.

Saule Technologies

Saule Technologies is a spin-out company from University of Valencia working on perovskite solar cells, especially targeting consumer electronics applications.

What is the Limit of Supercapacitor Energy Density?

An electrochemical double layer capacitor is purely electrostatic in action, meeting the definition of a capacitor. There are other ways of getting high capacitance and energy density.

Nanotec

Nanotec are manufacturers of nanomaterials including Cu, Li2S, and cellulose. Dr Richard Collins visited their facilities and spoke with Patricio Jarpa (General manager).

Volvo Cars aims for 50 per cent of sales to be electric by 2025

Volvo Cars aims for fully electric cars to make up 50 per cent of its sales by 2025, the company announced.

US solar funding

The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office announced $105.5 million in funding for projects that span the office's research portfolio and address the affordability, flexibility, and performance of solar technologies on the grid.

Smart printing: power generating films and luminescent glass

New inks for inkjet printers make it possible to print organic displays or solar cells on film and glass for the use in architecture, the textile industry and many other industries.

Drones tested for search and rescue

The scenarios being tested this week are a shoreline search for a casualty, an offshore search for multiple casualties in the sea, a mud rescue and a communications blackspot where a drone is required to relay information between rescue teams and a casualty on a cliff.

Botfactory

Update from IDTechEx Show! Berlin 2018.

Voltera

Update from IDTechEx Show! Berlin 2018.

Ricoh

Update from IDTechEx Show! Berlin 2018

IDTechEx Show Berlin 2018: 3D Printing Highlights

Technology Analyst Dr Bryony Core reports on her 3D printing findings at the IDTechEx Show! in Berlin.

Fantastic Progress at Printed Electronics Europe

Europe's leading event on printed, flexible and hybrid electronics - Printed Electronics Europe, hosted by IDTechEx in Berlin on April 11-12, saw attendance from a record 63 countries with 16% growth of the exhibit floor space.

Structural Electronics: Silicon on Supercapacitor Has Big Potential

Single crystal silicon photovoltaics will now be very affordable, obsoleting polycrystalline Si PV by having efficiency much higher. Laminating it onto supercapacitor sheeting will form a load bearing material that both makes and stores electricity, delivering it exceptionally fast when needed.