FlexEnable demonstrates conformable, glass-free Plastic based organic LCDs that are 4x thinner than regluar glass-based LCD, 10x lighter weight, shatterproof, 30 times more bendable and conformable, 3 times higher mobility resulting in higher resolution and upward 1000 times lower power leakage enabling lower power consuming LCD displays, all at similar or lower cost than regular glass based LCD when mass produced! Read more about the FlexEnable Flexible Plastic OLCD at their website: http://www.flexenable.com/technology/flexible-olcd/ Filmed at the IDTechEx Show!
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Solar-powered car (4-seater) by Solar Team Eindhoven
Solar Team Eindhoven creates an energy efficient 4-seater family car to make solar cars sexy and user friendly. The World Solar Challenge encourages teams to push the limits of technology, where the Solar Team Eindhoven won the Cruiser Class at Bridgestone World Solar Challenge in Australia where the car covered 3,000 kilometers all the way from Darwin to Adelaide carrying two occupants at an average speed of 76 km/h. It is the ultimate challenge for solar-powered vehicles. Solar Team Eindhoven contributes to a clean world. Their passion is to develop a solar car that is ready for the market of tomorrow. Imagine a world where cars no longer need fossil fuels, where cars are energy positive. Filmed at the IDTechEx Show!
Flexible low-cost solar power by Kolon Industries
Kolon Industries presents their flexible organic photovoltiacs for energy harvesting, their flexible OPV with claimed 3-5 years life is great in its apparel and should be everywhere. This has 50% transparency and a bending radius of only 10mm, a low cost roll to roll printing process resulting in “Payback less than 0.2 years”, focusing on the four major business divisions, industrial materials, chemical, films/electronic materials, and fashion, the company is aiming to be a leader in each industry by providing this flexible solar power. Kolon Industries with its Flexible Solar Panel won the Best In Show award at IDTechEx Show in Berlin 2017. Filmed at the IDTechEx Show!
TriDInnov adds electronics on plastics
Startup company TriDInnov provides additive metallization for plastic and composite materials electronic packaging, is linked through a closed partnership with equipment manufacturer Kelenn Technology, launching the new Kelenn Technology DMD 100, an off-contact digital dispenser which deposits the TDI thick film formulation EOPROM (primer formulation for metallization process) showcasing their prototype circuits which have been manufactured with the DMD 100, depositing their EOPROM thick film formulation on molded device. TriDInnov’s technology brings to the electronic packaging market a new manufacturing process which reposition the MID towards new business areas such as to add value on composite materials especially in the automotive area. They are to invest in a technology platform in order to manufacture MID prototypes circuits for their customers in order to push their technology acceptance on the market place. Filmed at the IDTechEx Show!
Cytosurge FluidFM µ3Dprinter, world’s first 3D printer at sub-micron direct metal printing
At the forefront of nanotechnology, additive manufacturing, life sciences and single cell biology, Cytosurge FluidFM µ3Dprinter is the world’s first 3D printer capable of delivering sub-micron resolution in direct metal printing, while offering scalability and good prospects in both production cost and speed. The FluidFM technology opens a new world for metal object manufacturing and enables research opportunities in fields such as microelectronics, semiconductors, surface modification, microbots, sensors, material science and many other fields. Virtually any design can be offered to the system, including overhanging structures with 90 degree angles, without support structures or post processing steps. High-precision surface modification processes can also be executed by printing ultra-thin or structured objects and by depositing multiple metals at the target surface. With the FluidFM µ3Dprinter various metals like Cu, Ag, Au, Pt can be printed. The printing of other metals (Sn, Cd, Cr, Ni etc.) and various alloys are under investigation. Cytosurge won Best Development in 3D Printing Award Europe 2017. Filed at the IDTechEx Show!
TEGnology thermoelectric Energy Harvesting for self-powered Sensor Network
TEGnology develops and commercializes new materials to be used in thermo electric generation, the material is cheaper and more heat-resistant than other materials on the market has developed costing less than 5% of the competition and is manufacturable in industrial quantities. With an ROI of less than two years, their two new materials exploit waste heat energy recovery very efficiently, useful for markets such as automotive, maritime, bio-fuel, Combined Heat & Power and the Sensor Industry. TEGnology replaces batteries, requires no maintenance, it’s Made in Denmark, it is Low cost and available, uses commonly available materials, no tellurium or lead enables Self-powered wireless IOT sensor for temperature, pressure, vibration and more, it’s high temperature energy harvesting for industry. Filmed at the IDTechEx show.
Bainisha body motion capture using flexible wearable sensors and electronics
Bainisha shows their body motion capturing in their high performance wearable systems consisting of wearable second skin patches for remote motion capturing, in which batteries, antennas, electronics and sensors (including both the Bainisha sensor and IMU’s to form a hybrid system) are embedded, that can be worn 24/7 up to 3 weeks, delivering a 4D super accurate topological map of the measured body part for top level analytics. Filmed at the IDTechEx Show.
8Power self-powered Sensor Network (IoT with no batteries, no charging)
8Power presents the Track100, a 100% self-powered Energy Harvesting LoraWan LPWA GPS Tracker for creating Sensor Networks that run on vibrations and solar. These can be installed all over the place, never having to go back to change the batteries nor recharging the devices to power the Sensor Network IoT. 8Power Ltd received the Best Technical Development within Energy Harvesting Award at the IDTechEx Show. Filmed at the IDTechEx Show.
Himaero, Emotional Jewel, Made in Italy
Himaero presents their first Jewel prototype fully Made in Italy, silver fully handcrafted by the Italian master goldsmith Corrado Di Giacomo and and Murano glass by the Murano glassmaker Stefano Busato, encapsulating technology able to interpret the mood and the emotions of the users, and to change appearance accordingly. Filmed at the IDTechEx Show.
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Fotokite Pro drone, tethered autonomous drone with Unlimited flight time, aerial live video
As a spin off from Swiss ETH Zurich University, the Fotokite Pro is the drone that CNN, BBC and many other News media are already using to easily create live aerial video for example to report live when people were queuing to vote at the US election, it is the only drone approved to be used by the FCC because it is tethered. Being tethered allows it to be lighter since it doesn’t fly with a battery, it can fly for an unlimited amount of time getting power through the cable, it’s safe because it is tethered not needing on board GPS, on board computer vision, and more. A live low-latency uncompressed Full HD video downlink enables effective framing and live broadcast using an external HDMI or SDI port. The Fotokite Phi in the consumer version, more compact, lighter and most affordable GoPro-carrying quadcopter yet that was successfully crowdfunded for $249 each at Indiegogo.
Christophe Arviset, ESA Gaia and Euclid Missions Online Data Sharing
Christophe Arviset is the Head of the Data and Engineering Division at ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC). The European Space Agency’s (ESA) current mission Gaia and upcoming one Euclid will generate massive amounts of astronomical data to be made freely available on-line through powerful data management systems. This big data era brings a change of paradigm and associated big challenges for building these missions’ archives. The current use case of “bring the data to the user” is being replaced by the new concept of “bring the user to the data”. This new generation of science archives is transforming into science exploitation and collaborative platforms, where the users can send her/his code to the data, run it on computing and storage services provided directly by the archive (where the data reside), and easily share all this with other scientists they’re collaborating with.
You can watch Christophe Arviset’s keynote at Linaro Connect here:
Ohmatex Smart Clothing with NIRS (Near Infra-Red) and EMG sensors for ESA
Ohmatex of Denmark is an expert in smart textile technology developing products and solutions for integrating electronics into textile. Ohmatex currently has a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a garment with NIRS (Near Infra-Red) and EMG sensors to monitor leg muscle activity during astronaut training. Filmed at the IDTechEx show!
Smart Textiles at the North Carolina State University
Students at the North Carolina State University work on smart clothing, designing interesting dresses, smart clothes, for it to be useful and look good.