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Analysts at IDTechEx have appraised the technology and potential commercialisation of triboelectrics, which is a new form of energy harvesting based on similar materials and think there is potential for partnerships.There has been considerable progress with self-healing polymers just lately, with the researchers dreaming of use in regular tires and phones.

When the Mayor of London plans a ban on parking in all new apartment blocks, it is best not to assume, that car sales will go on up forever. Factor in trials of autonomous taxi-buses from Switzerland to New Zealand and the rise in internet shopping using electric delivery vans. They are all going to hit car sales, including taxis. Bill Gates’ Belmont new city in Arizona is being based on more space-efficient, safer, less expensive alternati...

An independent, technical and market appraisal of electrically smart roads and their allied infrastructure such as electrical road furniture and parking areas has been released by IDTechEx, entitledElectrically Smart Roads 2018-2028.It embraces such things as solar roads driving integral lighting today and the research to add harvesting of heat and movement by roads and electricity from roadside wind turbines, sensing, and structural health monit...

Nano Dimension Ltd just announced that a leading European aerospace and defense supplier has purchased the company’sDragonFly 2020 Pro 3D Printerfor professional electronics manufacturing. The international tier 1 supplier of systems and components will take delivery of the DragonFly 2020 Pro at its corporate research and technology centre.

IDTechEx Research's most recent report,Battery Elimination in Electronics and Electrical Engineering 2018-2028,notes that billions of wireless electronic and electrical products consuming microwatts to milliwatts or more operate without batteries or even capacitors to store energy. Among the most successful are the piezoelectric gas lighter, the bicycle light with dynamo and the EnOcean wireless building controls such as sensors, lights and light...

The electrical vehicle industry continues to gather pace. The market is forecast to grow to $731bn by 2027 (Source:IDTechEx). Several factors around vehicle charging will be crucial to underpin future growth. Increased availability of charging stations, for example, will be essential to enable more widespread access to charging and reduce consumer ‘range anxiety’. Yet equally important for growing consumer acceptance of Electric Vehic...

A smart beer label is not necessarily one that tells you when you have had enough, but one that can use push marketing to prompt drinkers to collect money off vouchers, via a smart label.

For higher efficiency and smaller form factors in wirelessly power devices, Nucurrent's patented low resistance antennae, are the basis for customised designs and prototypes developed with customers to bring wireless power to new strucutres, such as furniture, as well as conventional consumer electronics and wearables.

This electric motorcycle is silent but has battery-powered propulsion for acceleration without vibration, heat or noise, says Zero Motorcycles.

Robotic technology will transform the forklift industry, causing a colossal transfer of value from human-provided driving services, towards spending on autonomous industrial material handling machines, thus fuelling an industry revenue boom far exceeding recent growth trends. By Dr Khasha Ghaffarzadeh, Research Director, IDTechEx