Category: Tradeshows

Leica Geosystems BLK360 with Autodesk RECAP 360 PRO

Posted by – February 25, 2017

Leica Geosystems presents their BLK360 triple lens 360 degree camera as 3d scanner for 360 degree images for the construction industry. The camera has an infrared sensor for taking panoramic images. The camera is primarily used for surveying surrounding areas such as in the field of construction. The camera will be available in March of this year. The price is around $16,000.

Withings Kerastase Smart Hair Coach

Posted by – February 25, 2017

Withings and Kerastase have teamed up to create the Smart Hairbrush. The Kerastase smart hair coach can monitor your hair as well as provide information. The smart hair brush will also provide advice on what your hair should look like. The information gathered by the smart hairbrush is sent to your smartphone.

$179 Withings Steel HR Smart Analog Watch

Posted by – February 25, 2017

Withings is a division of Nokia from France that produces analog smartwatches. The Steel HR is the first analog smartwatch currently available with a heart rate monitor and a circular OLED display. The watches also has a small circular screen for glancing at information. There is also an Android and iOS app for controlling the device The prices of the watches start at $179.

3dRudder Foot Controlled Virtual Reality

Posted by – February 25, 2017

3drudder offers virtual reality controls that can be controlled using your feet. The device controls your characters movement without you having to move yourself. The device can be easily implemented in video games and can either emulate PC keyboard controls or joystick input. The price of the controller is $199.

$299 Miraxess Mirabook 13.3″ Laptop Dock for Andromium Type-C Smartphones

Posted by – February 25, 2017

The Miraxess Mirabook turns your smartphone into a 13.3″ laptop. The device works with Android or Windows Smartphones through USB type C and charges your phone. The battery life is said to be 24 hours. The Mirabook features HDMI, USB Type C, and an SD Card Reader I/O for and Premium speakers. The device is a prototype with a target price of $299 and availability to be announced.

Nowy Styl Smart Chair uses Gemsense RED AMBER sensor IoT platform

Posted by – February 24, 2017

Jonathan Schipper of Gemsense shows their Smart Chair made in partnership with Nowy Styl of Poland. They have integrated 14 sensors into the office chair, motion sensors, Gyroscope, Magnetometer, temperature, humidity and more. It can be used to expand the VR gaming experience. Gemsense partners with DSP Group to use their Ultra-Low Energy (ULE) System-on-Chips (SoCs) wireless chipset solutions to power the new Navigo Smart connected chair by Nowy Styl Group, maker of furniture solutions for office and public spaces. The Navigo Smart chair is further enhanced by the RED AMBER sensor IoT platform by Gemsense. You can also watch the interview filmed by Android Authority here

Space Pirate Trainer on HTC Vive

Posted by – February 24, 2017
Category: Gaming, VR, Computex

Trying out Space Pirate Trainer on the HTC Vive at the Sandisk booth.

Velux Smart Windows

Posted by – February 24, 2017

Velux smart windows adjust themselves based on weather conditions. Velux Windows adjust themselves so the house has an ideal temperature. Velux Windows will close themselves when no one is in the house to prevent intruders from entering. Velux smart windows can still let in air even while windows are closed Velux smart Windows can reduce energy consumption for smarthome certification. Velux Windows can be controlled remotely by an app.

Inforce 6410Plus Snapdragon 600 Development Board

Posted by – February 24, 2017

The Inforce 6410Plus is a Snapdragon 600 based development board. The Inforce 6410Plus features compatibility with a wide array of I/O such as camera connectivity and various sensors such as accelerometer. The Inforce 6410Plus features Arduino connectivity. The Inforce 6410Plus can run either Android or Linux. The Inforce 6410Plus is aimed primarily for robotics applications.

TF Massif E Ink Interactive Posters, large area, thin film circuits

Posted by – February 18, 2017

TF Massif shows off their beautiful interactive posters using E Ink and LEDs, entering potential massive success to revolutionize the poster/advertising business, with Large Area Thin Film Circuits, TF Massif has capabilities to produce flexible circuits at 50in x 144in and 60in circuits are also available. Using their proprietary Large Area Control Deposition (LACD) they can produce the most cost effective large area flexible circuits in the world. Target markets are anything Big. TF Massif is the winner of the “Best Product Award” at the IDTechEx Show!

Hitachi Chemical stretchable, waterproof, flexible technology

Posted by – February 17, 2017

For over 50 years, Hitachi Chemical has been focused on R&D that has driven technological breakthroughs enabling their customers to manufacture thinner, lighter, and high volume products. Here also showing their low temperature sintering, smart gel, memory shape polymer. As a result, their materials are currently in a vast number of today’s highly reliable and durable wearable devices. Filmed at the IDTechEx Show!

TNO 3D Printing

Posted by – February 16, 2017

TNO is a major player in a growing international network comprised of leading scientific institutes, companies with ambitious development profiles, universities and other partners in knowledge. Filmed at the IDTechEx Show!

Fisk Alloy copper alloy wire for connectors and electrical cables

Posted by – February 16, 2017

Founded in 1973 in Hawthorne, N.J. to manufacture high precision square wire for connectors and electronic components, Fisk Alloy invented PERCON in the 1990ies, a family of environmentally friendly copper alloys combining high conductivity with high tensile strength. The cool thing about PERCON it that it was RoHS compliant well before the EU directive came out.

Fisk Alloy’s products can be found in all demanding markets where failure is not an option and who require high performance components: Aerospace, Medical, Robotics, Automotive and E-Textiles.

Fisk Alloy PERCON alloys are so good and homogeneous in their composition that we draw them to ultra-fine gauge sizes, AWG 56 being currently the finest size which corresponds to 12 microns or a third of a human hair. They combine these single-end wires to stranded constructions, 7-ends, 19-ends as well as rope-lay conductors putting up to 1000 single-ends together.

The main advantages of Fisk Alloy PERCON alloys are superior flex life for all cables in movement, excellent softening resistance when exposed to high temperatures as well as opportunities for size and weight saving thanks to great strength without sacrificing conductivity. A few years ago they invented Percon 28, unique in its capability of combining 80 KSI tensile strength with 85% electrical conductivity in a soft-annealed condition. No other alloy world-wide is able to match these properties.

E-textiles is an ideal market for PERCON and especially Percon 28, as their wire can be woven, knitted and embroidered invisibly into the fabric, allowing signal transmission for various data-sensing and monitoring purposes.

Filmed at the IDTechEx Show!

Sensor Films additive manufacturing solutions

Posted by – February 16, 2017

Sensor Films Inc. is an additive manufacturing solutions provider that is changing the way electronic products are manufactured. Sensor Films designs and builds digital manufacturing and printing systems equipped with integrated pre- and post-printing processes enabling customers to make electronic product assemblies used in a wide variety of consumer and industrial products. The technology efficiently prints functional and decorative inks on flexible and rigid substrates in a platform scalable to high throughput production. Filmed at the IDTechEx Show!.

Electric Stimulation shirt by Myant, for regaining lost motor function

Posted by – February 16, 2017

Myant designs, develops and produces smart clothing considering fashion design, chemistry, physics, software development and engineering, they are based in Canada. Filmed at the IDTechEx Show!.

BrightVolt flexible batteries using solid state lithium polymer


BrightVolt develops flexible batteries using solid state thin film lithium polymer, Polymer Matrix Electrolyte (PME) for batteries enabling new small IoT devices, smart clothing, healthcare and more. Filmed at the IDTechEx tradeshow.

Micro:bit CTO and CEO interview

Posted by – February 10, 2017

Johnny Austin is the CTO of the micro:bit foundation, they have distributed about 1 million units for free to every school kid age 12 in the UK, who use them to learn programming. The retail price is £13 in the UK. Micro:bit Foundation has announced three new Founding partners to join the current six. The British Council, Amazon and Lancaster University will be joining the BBC, Nominet, ARM, IET, Microsoft and Samsung. Zach Shelby is the CEO and he talks about how they are working to make the micro:bit available worldwide to everyone who wants to use it. The micro:bit is now available in 32 countries, with resellers in eleven. The micro:bit Foundation with element 14, the distributor of the BBC micro:bit, announced resellers in six new countries. This means educational organisations, teachers, kids, parents and makers will now also be able to locally purchase the BBC micro:bit in Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Netherlands and Finland.

Synergy Aircraft suggests Economical regional transportation

Posted by – February 10, 2017

Synergy is an airplane designed to safely fly one to six people directly from town to town, in less time and at less cost than airliners or automobiles. Its innovative technologies provide the key to economical regional transportation in the speed range between supercars and commercial jets. Filmed at the IDTechEx tradeshow.

Cashaa, zero fee cash transfers using Cryptocurrency

Posted by – February 9, 2017

Cashaa based in London suggests a way to enable international cash transfers with no fee, no commission, their business model is that they claim that cryptocurrencies don’t have the exact same value at different places in the world, so they can profit on the price difference, but a user can transfer the money fully without commission based on the day’s real currency exchange rate. Cashaa is a P2P marketplace powered by the Blockchain to transfer cash anywhere in the world. Cashaa’s model is based on connecting individuals who wish to send and receive money anywhere in the world, with cryptocurrency traders/network who accept the physical cash from the sender in one location and give it to the receiver in another location in exchange of selling and buying their cryptocurrency.

EC Technology shows $50 Projector docks with $75 Mini PC, $100 Combo, and S905 TV Box


EC Technology has a pico projector for $50. EC Technology has a mini pc for $75 and mini PC/pico projector combo for $100. EC Technology has a Amlogic s905 Android set top box for $100 plus a keyboard with integrated touch pad for an unspecified price. More products planned for the future. Moq for all units is 50 units or more.