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Worldwide
31 Jul 2014
News from Asahi Kasei, Therasolve and Canatu
The following highlights some of the major announcements from a recent printed electronics event.
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United Kingdom, United States
30 Jul 2014
3D printed flight-critical aerospace components go into production
GE Aviation, the world's largest manufacturer of jet engines, announced this month that they are investing $50 million to create a 3D printing production facility in Auburn, Alabama.
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Worldwide
30 Jul 2014
Developments from DuPont, NPL and Agfa
After a recent printed electronics event the summary below details exciting progress from three presenting companies - DuPont, the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and AGFA.
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Worldwide
29 Jul 2014
E-paper displays in consumer electronics
E Ink is the only supplier of electrophoretic displays that are used in e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle.
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Worldwide
24 Jul 2014
Materials for approaching multi-billion dollar supercapacitor market
Functional materials for supercapacitors will be a $5 billion market before 2025.
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Worldwide
23 Jul 2014
The rise of plastic and flexible OLED displays
IDTechEx forecasts that the market for plastic and flexible OLED displays will rise to $16bn by 2020.
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Worldwide
18 Jul 2014
IDTechEx: unmanned electric aircraft take agriculture by storm
The German Agricultural Society Field Days 2014, held recently showcased many new innovations in crop production for the German and other European producers present. This year's event had special emphasis on drones, notably quadcopters and other multicopters for spotting disease, underwatering and many other conditions plus some fixed wing versions.
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Worldwide
18 Jul 2014
The death of coal and oil boost EVs
When representative of OPEC, Sheik Yamani famously said, "The stone age did not end for lack of stones", it is now clear that the coming decade will see a collapse of coal power and not because coal supplies are running out. The writing is on the wall for oil as well - it will help electric vehicles because it will no longer be true that they use "dirty" electricity in the main.
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Worldwide
17 Jul 2014
Energy harvesting and IoT in building automation
There are many definitions flying around the world of technology for what the Internet of Things (IoT) is or what it can do for people and even more impressively, a wide range of numbers that describe the size of the market that the IoT is going to grow into, some of those projections swimming close to the "realm of unbelievable".
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United States
16 Jul 2014
IDTechEx launches Wearable Technology LIVE! USA
IDTechEx is launching the Wearable Technology LIVE! event on 19-20 November 2014 in Santa Clara, California. This is an international tradeshow and conference focused on wearable technologies with a particular emphasis on the critical enabling technologies that will shape the future of wearable devices.
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Worldwide
14 Jul 2014
Webinar 22 July: Wearable Technology 2015-2025
IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar.
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Worldwide
14 Jul 2014
Supercapacitors for electric vehicles are gaining traction
The replacement of batteries means grabbing a chunk of the lithium-ion battery market in particular but also inroads into lead-acid and nickel metal hydride territory.