Sensors, Haptics & Displays

Thermoelectric harvesting will be on production hybrid electric on-road vehicles from 2018. It will be commonplace on hybrids in 2020 and almost entirely to charge the battery, or increasingly supercapacitor or supercabattery used for power.

The progress of virtual reality headsets.

Load bearing structures that are also electronic or electrical are called structural electronics. This two-for-the-price-of-one approach can be more reliable, attractive and long-lived and it always saves space.

In the research carried out for the new IDTechEx report, "The Internet of Things: Business Opportunities 2015-2025", we define IoT as based on IP addressed sensor nodes.

The reasons why CEOs want to come to the IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA event.

Intel have released the long-awaited Edison - a powerful microcontroller the size of an SD card.

Based on the latest research by IDTechEx analysts, the market for energy harvesting is expected to reach $2.6 Billion by 2024.

First was the significant investment from the materials community but now the equipment industry has turned its attention to printed electronics as a growth opportunity.

RFID was invented seven decades ago, however, 23% of all the RFID tags ever sold were sold in 2013. In 2014, a further 1.12 billion RFID tags will be sold versus the total number of tags sold in 2013.

Structural electronics (SE) is one of the most important emerging technologies in this century.