IDTechEx interview Applied Graphene Materials (AGM) at the IDTechEx Graphene & 2D Materials event in Berlin. AGM has developed and patented a proprietary “bottom up” process for the production of high-specification graphene. AGM claims that its process is continuous and scalable, produces high-quality graphene powders, does not require a substrate and uses sustainable and readily available raw materials (not from graphite), AGM’s production capacity has been expanded to support large volume graphene applications. AGM also has expertise to disperse graphene in a variety of solid matrices and solutions to deliver advanced materials optimised for many applications, including polymer composites, paints and coatings, thermal management, lubricants and functional fluids, barriers and films, supercapacitors and batteries. For more information about the event and graphene see http://www.IDTechEx.com
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Andromium OS on MHL Lapdock, Productivity multi-window UI for Android
Gordon Zheng, Founder and Lead Developer, presents Andromium OS, described as a guest OS that run on top of Android, leveraging existing Android API’s as well as a new UI library to bring a productivity keyboard/mouse desktop style user experience similar to Windows and OSX. Currently Android does not support a true multi-window experience, however some manufactures like LG and Samsung have made some modification to android (ROM) to bring the side by side apps and windows app experience for their devices. Andromium takes a similar approach, while Samsung and LG’s approaches are exclusive to their devices, Andromium OS runs on any Android device as long as their device support Android version 4.4 and above. The next step for Andromium will be to release a Developer SDK and Andromium app store to the developer community, to grow the OS ecosystem.
The Andromium SDK, designed as an additional library that developers can import into their existing Android projects, allowing their android apps to inherit the Andromium OS multi-windows functionality, as well as have the correct UI elements for a keyboard and mouse interface. The Android developers can continue to use their favorite Developer environment: ADT or Eclipse, they just have to import Andromium’s library into their project.
Currently Andromium OS in on the Google playstore as a public beta, it is currently around 5mb download. Long term the OS/App will stay relatively small. Andromium can support most devices on Android 4.4 and above (including Lollipop). The Andromium OS/UI is hardware accelerated, so that users should experience 30fps or above according to the performance of the ARM Processor. For example on a Samsung Note 4, Andromium OS can play a 4k video, surf in the browser and still have close to 30fps ui rendering when moving or resizing the application windows.
For more information please see:
http://forum.andromiumos.com
http://www.andromiumos.com
E Ink Chief Strategy Officer Dr Paul Apen talks signage and architecture
At the IDTechEx show in Berlin, Sri Peruvemba, former CMO for E Ink, interviewed Dr Paul Apen, Chief Strategy Officer at E Ink. Paul had just completed a talk where he described E Ink’s work in signage and architectural applications.
Enfucell Printed Battery Powering Golf Sensor, Temperature Sensors and More
Enfucell is a customized battery supplier to the printed electronics industry. The company has developed SoftBattery®, a thin, flexible and eco-friendly printed power source and at the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe event in Berlin it showcased a range of products based on this battery. It includes a powered wireless golf sensor patch which was developed in a joint project with Qualcomm. The patch is attached to a golf club head for measuring acceleration and angular velocity. The acquired data is transferred via low energy Bluetooth (BLE) to an application on a mobile device. Enfucell battery powers the BLE data transmission without additional capacitor demonstrating the highest peak power capability in the industry. Battery is also fully integrated to the system.
The disposable patch is helping golf players to improve their swing. This is the first time that a player can actually get feedback from the club head. A fully integrated printed battery enables thin and light construction which does not interfere with the normal stroke. Thanks to the BLE communication, data can be analyzed on site on the driving range during a training session. The data is collected to and processed on an Android tablet.
A similar patch can be tailored for other racquet sports, shooting, bowling, etc. Enfucell is looking for partners for commercializing the product. The new product platform completes Enfucell application range with previously introduced temperature logger (collaboration with NXP) and iontophoresis patch (collaboration with The Ionto Team, Spain). Also these products have fully integrated Enfucell battery technology. All of these are shown in the video. To learn more see http://www.PrintedElectronicsWorld.com
Mifree Memory LCD and E Ink Smartwatches
Using ST Microelectronics ARM Cortex-M4, MediaTek MT2502 ARM7EJ-S or Ingenic MIPS, using Sharp Memory LCD, E Ink or regular LCD, pricing from below $50 to $100 for an MT6572 dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 based Apple watch clone running Android. Mifree says that they are currently shipping more than 100 thousand smartwatches per month out of their smartwatch factory. Mifree also shows how they can add a PCB to a classical style watch to make it smart.
You can contact Mifree here:
http://en.m-free.cn/lxwm_detail/&i=1&comContentId=1.html
IoT powered by Touch and Printed Electronics presented by Ericsson for Machine to Nature
Jan Hederen of Ericsson presents the clickable world, how everything – including nature, can be part of our connected world and how a simple touch allows you to communicate with anything. Today, we are on the brink of an extraordinary revolution where everything that benefits from a connection will have one. This Networked Society is in real time will place many new requirements on us while opening up opportunities beyond our imagination. Those who have the ability to rethink, reinvent and innovate will be winners in this new value-creating ecosystem. In the presentation “The power of touch – Exploring the real world web” Jan Hederen at Ericsson presented at the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe discussing and demonstrating their initial findings in creating a clickable world, exploring the opportunities with partners to use printed electronics to realize this new connected world. For more information see http://www.IDTechEx.com
Allwinner A64 quad-core ARM Cortex-A53, 64bit Tablets run Android 5 Lollipop
Allwinner shows their first 64bit Tablets, running the Allwinner A64 quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 running Android 5 Lollipop. Allwinner positions this solution as the cheapest 64bit Tablet solution, a step-up from the 32bit sub-$4 Allwinner A33, planning mass production for June 2015, here showing it running in a 9.6″ 1280×800 tablet. Featuring 9.9 second fast boot, HDMI, improved smart color, 4K video playback, H265 hardware decode.
$70 GOCLEVER CHRONOS ECO Smartwatch with 20-day battery life and always-on Sharp memory LCD display
GOCLEVER CHRONOS ECO vibrates and displays notifications from the Smartphone. Using the dedicated Android/iOS application, users can choose which notifications from which app to vibrate and display. The display is always on using the Sharp Memory LCD technology, provides pretty impressive contrast for indoor and outdoor use with backlight that can kick in on touch and on lifting the wrist. With an amazing 20-day battery life with the always-on display always active, thanks also to the Nordic Semiconductor ARM Cortex-M0 processor, GOCLEVER CHRONOS ECO is to be available in May for around $70 on Ebay and Amazon in most of the EU.
You can read more about it at http://www.goclever.com/uk/products,c1/smartwear,c114/chronos-eco,a455.html
Rockchip 64bit RK3368 Octa-core ARM Cortex-A53
Rockchip shows RK3368, their first 64bit ARM Cortex-A53 Octa-core processor, it can support H265 4K at 60fps decoding with HDMI 2.0 4K output. It already runs Android 5.1 thus Android TV works on it. Himedia already has a TV Box with it running inside and Pipo shows their Pipo P9 version running the RK3368 Octa-core 64bit processor.
Allwinner H64 Set-top-box development board
Allwinner H64 OTT box development board is a 64bit Quad core ARM Cortex-A53 with H.265 4K decoding, 4K HDMI output, smart color display with Android 5 Lollipop support.
LY, new brand launch, aims to be Top-20 Smartphone brand within 2-3 years
LY is a new brand for Smartphones and IoT/Wearables devices to be distributed around the world. LY wants to distribute through small to medium sized distributors around the world, supporting small orders, partnering with small businesses, LY aims to become a top-20 Smartphone brand within the next 2-3 years capturing a share of the still rapidly growing smartphones market, where most of the remaining 5 Billion people who currently are still disconnected, will be able to get smartphones within the next 5 years around the world. In this video you can meet the new team behind the brand, you can get a feeling from them for how it is for them to launch a new brand in the Smartphones market. I will be publishing more LY videos on my channel in the coming weeks as more details about their devices and distribution strategy will be unveiled.
If you’re a distributor and small business, if you want to learn more, you can contact LY here:
Frank CEO
frank@ly-mobi.com
Mobile: +86 18680338561
Wendy Sales
wendy@ly-mobi.com
Preview of the IDTechEx Show! in Berlin April 28-29 2015
The 2015 IDTechEx Show! covering printed electronics, energy harvesting, 3D Printing, wearable technology and much more kicks off in Berlin on April 28. Attendees from 47 countries will be present, with pre-registrations over 18% up compared to 2014. Over 200 presentations will be given and approximately 150 exhibitors to meet. Learn more at http://www.IDTechEx.com
DuPont Microcircuit Materials and Wearable Technology, interview with IDTechEx
DuPont Microcircuit Materials (DuPont) shows some of their latest offerings in printed electronics at the IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2014 event, including a T-Shirt that monitors the oxygen level, heart rate and temperature of the wearer. This is enabled by their stretchable, washable conductive ink materials. Their materials are used for many applications, from glucose test strips, (where their sisters company DuPont Teijin provides the substrate) to antennas for wireless RF systems. This video was taken at the world’s largest event on Printed Electronics, hosted by IDTechEx. For more information see http://www.IDTechEx.com
Printed Electronics Europe takes place in Berlin April 28-29th 2015
Organic PV (OPV) from Armor Group, interview by IDTechEx
Armor is an international industrial company, involved in the manufacture and sale of printer consumables for thermal transfer, laser and inkjet technologies. The company has also been developing organic photovoltaics and in this interview with IDTechEx at Printed Electronics they tell us more about their progress. For more information see http://www.IDTechEx.com
Printed Electronics Europe takes place in Berlin April 28-29th 2015
GCell Photovoltaics in Keyboards and other Accessories
GCell shows an iPad keyboard powered by their photovoltaic device. The photovoltaic technology is based on DSSCs which operate efficiently at low light levels, such as indoor lighting. It is used in keyboards to negate the need to replace any batteries. See more about the technology and markets in this video. For more information see http://www.IDTechEx.com
Printed Electronics Europe takes place in Berlin April 28-29th 2015
Electric Vehicles and Supercapacitors – interview with Franco Gonzalez, IDTechEx
IDTechEx analyst Franco Gonzalez discusses some of the trends with Electric Vehicles and Energy Storage. For more see http://www.IDTechEx.com
Printed Electronics Europe takes place in Berlin April 28-29th 2015
Smartkem Organic Semiconductor Material Company at IDTechEx
SmartKem delivers ‘organic’ semiconductor materials for the manufacture of flexible and plastic electronic displays used in applications such as, eReaders, Smartphones, Tablets and TV’s. The company provides customised solutions involving molecule synthesis, formulation and electronic prototyping for market-driven applications. This interview is conducted between IDTechEx and Dr Julian Carter of Smartkem at the IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA event. For more see http://www.IDTechEx.com
Printed Electronics Europe takes place in Berlin April 28-29th 2015
Teiimo Wearable Leather Jacket at the IDTechEx Wearable Technology event
Teiimo shows an electronics system embedded in a jacket. The jacket has two zone heating embedded into it, in addition to a hands free system and speakers. This is aimed at convertible drivers. The battery system is a flexible lithium ion battery so that the users do not feel it. Learn more about this product in this video. This interview was made at the IDTechEx Wearable Technology event. For more information see http://www.IDTechEx.com
Printed Electronics Europe takes place in Berlin April 28-29th 2015
Supercacitor trends, interview with IDTechEx
IDTechEx analyst Franco Gonzalez discusses some of the industry dynamics and latest trends of supercapacitors. Learn about their performance and the main players in this interview, taken at an IDTechEx on the topic. For more see http://www.IDTechEx.com
Printed Electronics Europe takes place in Berlin April 28-29th 2015
Panasonic OLED Lighting at IDTechEx
IDTechEx interviews Prof Komoda of Panasonic, finding out more about their work with OLED lighting. Panasonic has shown over 100 lumens/watt with OLED lighting, close to LED lighting efficiency. OLEDs can be more efficient than LEDs due to efficiency lost in the LED diffusion panel. This interview was taken at the IDTechEx event Printed Electronics USA. Learn more at http://www.IDTechEx.com
Printed Electronics Europe takes place in Berlin April 28-29th 2015
