Amin Torabi of ShareBot and Dimension Alley shows custom 3D printed creations, including clothing, watches, cell phone cases and miniatures at the IDTechEx show in Berlin, and discusses how 3D printing can be used to make prosthetics, dental molds and other healthcare items. Dimension Alley is a 3D printing store and café in Berlin where we print using FDM and DLP 3D printers as crafting tools to materialize amazing objects from spare parts to comets. Dimension Alley was opened in 2013 and is a center for design for 3D printing, courses and workshops, scan and print service and printer sales.
Category: IDTechEx
Toyota Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars
Posted by – May 13, 2016
Andy Fuchs of Toyota Motor Europe discusses hydrogen and electric vehicles and infrastructure at the IDTechEx Show! in Berlin. Toyota, is one of the world’s top automaker and creator of the Prius and the Mirai fuel cell vehicle. In addition to automotive products, its subsidiaries manufacture rubber and cork materials, steel, synthetic resins, automatic looms, and cotton and woolen goods. Others deal in real estate, prefabricated housing units, and the import and export of raw materials.
IDTechEx Interview: Toyota Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars
Posted by – May 13, 2016
Dr. Peter Harrop, Chairman of IDTechEx interviews Andy Fuchs of Toyota Motor Europe (https://www.toyota-europe.com/) at the IDTechEx Show! in Berlin about future electronic vehicles and infrastructure. Toyota discusses the range of options for passenger vehicles, electric buses and hybrid and electric manufacturing equipment. Toyota, is one of the world's top automaker and creator of the Prius and the Mirai fuel cell vehicle. In addition to automotive products, its subsidiaries manufacture rubber and cork materials, steel, synthetic resins, automatic looms, and cotton and woolen goods. Others deal in real estate, prefabricated housing units, and the import and export of raw materials.
Smart Clothing by Pauline Van Dongen
Posted by – May 12, 2016
At the IDTechEx Show! in Berlin, designer and keynote speaker, Pauline Van Dongen shows her wearable clothing designs, merging technology with fashion design. Included are a solar charging shirt.
Pauline combines new technologies with traditional techniques to constantly renovate craftsmanship. Working closely with companies from the field of science and innovation, Pauline aims to merge fashion and technology giving life to scientific creations.
Keynote: Pauline Van Dongen Smart Clothing
Posted by – May 12, 2016
At the IDTechEx Show! in Berlin, designer Pauline Van Dongen gives a keynote talk on the merging of technology and fashion design.
Pauline combines new technologies with traditional techniques to constantly renovate craftsmanship. Working closely with companies from the field of science and innovation, Pauline aims to merge fashion and technology giving life to scientific creations.
Analog Devices Optical Heart Rate Monitor, Vision Based Occupancy, Boost Converter and more
Posted by – May 7, 2016
At the IDTechEx Show! in Berlin, Jan Broeders, Business Development for Healthcare at Analog Devices, shows off wearable devices tailored for collecting health information such as the ADPD103 Optical Heart Rate Monitor, Vision Based Occupancy Sensing, ADP5091 Boost Converter for Energy Harvesting and their Wireless Charging Zero Pin Sensor. Analog Devices is a world leader in the design, manufacture, and marketing of a broad portfolio of high performance analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing (DSP) integrated circuits (ICs) used in virtually all types of electronic equipment.
Quad Industries Flexible Hybrid Printed Electronics
Posted by – May 7, 2016
At the IDTecEx Show! in Berlin, Wim Christiaens, Director of R&D at Quad Industries shows a variety of printed electronics samples, MEMS switches, printed batteries, and a shoe sole insert with 8 sensors used by Olympic athletes to analyze their step and gaits. Quad Industries is a leading manufacturer and developer of user interfaces and control panels, which mainly consist of membrane and capacitive switches, overlays and foils, rubber keypads, PCB's, integrated touch screens or displays and plastic or metal housings.
Bike2 electric bicycle with no chain
Posted by – May 7, 2016
Category: Exclusive videos, IDTechEx
Dr. Peter Harrop interviews Nils Sveje, co-founder of Bike2 on their electric bike drive system at the IDTechEx Show! in Berlin. This chainless system harnesses power through the pedals and channels it through the drive train. It also features an electrical gear system. Bike2 shows Dr. Harrop a prototype unit; Bike2 will be selling to bicycle manufacturers, who will have a greater freedom on bike design, and potentially the ability to create vehicles for those who cannot currently use a bike. These systems are being testing by Bike2 in Demark. Bike2 Aps is a Danish company founded in 2011 created for the development, production and distribution of the Bike2.0 bicycle and drive system. Read more at http://bike2.dk
Touch on Smart Clothing, Tacterion Sensor Skin
Posted by – May 2, 2016
Tacterion is a spin-off from the German aerospace center at the Robotics and Mechatronics Center to develop tacterion, a new kind of tactile sensor. Tacterion offers polymer-based tactile sensors called Artificial Skin for Robotics, MedTech or as a new kind of input device in Human-Machine-Interaction in Smart Clothing. The rubber foil-like Artificial Skin sensor is connected to Tacterion’s readout electronic component that translates physical interaction into data which digital systems can process. Filmed in 4K using Sony AX53 at the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe 2016 event. Read more at http://tacterion.com
Epson Moverio BT-300, Si-OLED Smart Glass for Augmented Reality
Posted by – May 2, 2016
Valerie Riffaud‐Cangelosi, new market development manager at Epson Europe shows the new upcoming Epson Moverio BT-300 Smart Glasses for Augmented Reality applications, for sale from October 2016. Using Epson’s new Silicon-based OLED dual-1280×720 projection heads-up display, with 100,000:1 ultra-high contrast, high brightness, very clear image. Markets include museums, arts and culture, drone piloting, healthcare and anything related to education and training. For example the aeronautics and automotive industry can use it to train new engineers into maintenance and to understand new materials, to be able to do the work while being able to see the information hands-free. Developers can customize, optimize and run their Android applications with the Moverio BT-300 on it’s Intel Atom x5 quad-core CPU with 2GB RAM and 16GB flash. Epson reduced the weight by 20% compared with Moverio BT-200. Epson can use the ambient light sensor to modify the brightness of the projection to the lenses that reflect the image to ones field of view, to optimize the battery life which can be up to 6 hours already with Micro-USB and power banks that can be used onto the remote box to extend the battery life indefinitely. Epson Moverio BT-300 also support Wi-Fi AC, Wi-Fi Direct, Miracast, MicroSDHC up to 32GB, and the remote can control the Android UI. Filmed in 4K with Sony AX53. Epson won the best wearable award at the IDTechEx Wearable Technology Europe 2016 event, you can read more at http://idtechex.com
Production-Ready Graphene from STANDARD GRAPHENE
Posted by – May 1, 2016
STANDARD GRAPHENE is a graphene R&D and manufacturing company and has core competency in graphene products and production process. Trying to be the leader in carbon and graphene technology with 18 years of carbon nano technology experience. STANDARD GRAPHENE can produce 1.1 tons/year of high quality graphene (rGO and GO) now and will increase this by 10x by 2017. Available graphene products include 6 models of rGO and 2 models of GO. Also graphene added application products such as Supercapacitor’s electrode, LiB electrode, graphene-ceramic coating solution, graphene-CFRP, graphene-Polyurethane, graphene-Plastics and more are available. Filmed in 4K using Sony AX53 at IDTechEx’s Graphene Live Europe 2016, read more at http://www.standardgraphene.com and http://idtechex.com
FlexEnable Interview, bring flexible displays to the world
Posted by – May 1, 2016
Using plastics for displays instead of glass, FlexEnable can show rollable, flexible OLED displays and bendable Organic OLCD displays for the future of wearables, smartphones, all types of displays can potentially be made using this process. FlexEnable partners with big display manufacturers to bring their IP to the mass market. This interview filmed in 4K using Sony AX53 is conducted by Sriram Peruvemba at the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe 2016, read more at http://idtechex.com
FlexEnable Demos, Organic LCD, Flexible OLED, Rollable OLED
Posted by – May 1, 2016
FlexEnable presents their amazing latest demos featuring Organic LCD which is bendable (fixed to a round shape), Flexible and Rollable OLED as well as the FlexEnable OLED Smartwatch concept with a display that turns around the wrist. FlexEnable exhibited at the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe 2016, read more at http://idtechex.com
Imec flexible processor, printed AMOLED display and RFID/NFC tags in playing cards with Cartamundi
Posted by – April 30, 2016
Imec is the world’s largest independent microelectronics R&D research organization with more than 2000 researchers and with over 600 companies partnering for their advanced research, Imec and Holst Centre presents the flexible AMOLED display, a flexible printed 8bit processor (similar to the first Intel processor from 40 years ago), flexible RFID and NFC tags here embedded inside playing cards together with Cartamundi, one of the world’s biggest maker of playing cards, enabling new card games where cards can be read by a card reader or next also by a smartphone’s NFC reader. This video was filmed in 4K at IDTechEx’s Printed Electronics Europe 2016 event.
Firstbeat: Heartbeat Monitoring for Fitness and Wellbeing
Posted by – April 26, 2016
An interview with Firstbeat at the IDTechEx Wearable USA exhibition. Firstbeat is a provider of physiological analytics for sports, fitness and wellbeing. Firstbeat technology measures the heartbeat for insights on exercise, stress, sleep and recovery. For more information, visit http://www.firstbeat.com and http://www.IDTechEx.com
Würth Elektronik: Motion Energy Harvesting Demo
Posted by – April 26, 2016
A video interview with Würth Elektronik, taken at the Energy Harvesting & Storage USA exhibition. Würth Elektronik eiSos GmbH & Co. KG is a manufacturer of electronic and electromechanical components for the electronics industry. The product range covers EMC Components, Capacitors, Inductors, RF Inductors and LTCC Components, Transformers, Components for Circuit Protection, Power Modules, LEDs, Connectors, Switches, Power Elements in Press-fit Technology and Assembly Technique.
Xenon Corporation at Printed Electronics USA
Posted by – April 26, 2016
A video interview with Xenon Corporation, taken at the Printed Electronics USA exhibition. XENON’s equipment uses Pulsed Light technology for industrial, medical and research applications. In the Printed Electronics industry, XENON’s S-Series systems are used to sinter conductive inks at room temperature, making it possible to print on heat sensitive flexible substrates such as PET and paper. XENON also produces high-performance Pulsed Light systems for applications in sanitization, UV curing and food enhancement. For more information, visit http://www.xenoncorp.com and http://www.IDTechEx.com
BitWearLabs Wearable Sensor System for Monitoring Food Intake
Posted by – April 26, 2016
A video interview taken with Muhammad Farooq of The University of Alabama at the IDTechEx Wearable USA event, presenting his poster “A Wearable Sensor System for Monitoring of Food Intake”. BitWearLabs is a University of Alabama spin-off. The AccuBite is a food intake tracker that analyses eating habits – the sensor pairs with a smartphone app to provide actionable feedback. For more information see http://bitwearlabs.com and http://www.IDTechEx.com
BitWearLabs “Smart Step” Insole Activity Monitor
Posted by – April 26, 2016
An interview with BitWearLabs at the IDTechEx Wearable USA exhibition. BitWearLabs is a University of Alabama spin-off. Demo of two of BitWearLabs products, the AccuBite and the SmartStep. The AccuBite is a food intake tracker that analyses eating habits – the sensor pairs with a smartphone app to provide actionable feedback. The SmartStep is an insole-based activity monitor that discreetly tracks the wearer’s steps, yielding an accurate picture of calories burned. For more information see http://bitwearlabs.com and http://www.IDTechEx.com
HZO Waterproofs Electronic Devices: Interview at the IDTechEx Show!
Posted by – April 26, 2016
Category: Exclusive videos, IDTechEx
Interview with HZO at the IDTechEx Wearable USA event. HZO provides technology solutions that protect electronics from corrosion and extended liquid immersion. A durable thin film is applied directly to the components of a device, creating a physical barrier between the vital circuitry and any kind of corrosive liquid. For more information see http://www.HZO.com and http://www.IDTechEx.com
