Consumer Goods/Electronics

Imagine a surface able to see people moving around and to create sounds and light. Imagine an interactive surface able to see distance and motion of your hand all over the surface for surprising animations of light and sound. Printed electronics ...

Printed Electronics have come of age: Here comes the user pull from a large "user pool". At the Printed Electronics Europe 2012 Berlin event, every attendee will become a user after receiving a working printed electronics product. The add...

European project reaches milestone enabling item-level RFID tags Holst Centre, imec and their partners in the EU FP7 project ORICLA have fabricated the world's first RFID (radio frequency identification) circuit made in low-temperature thin-film tec...

The Conductive Polymers Division of Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG, and Eastman Kodak Company's Industrial Materials Group today jointly announced a milestone in the development of transparent conductive films that can be easily patterned ...

In a recent meeting between Rusnano CEO Anatoly Chubais and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Chubais stated that the Russian Education Ministry will be testing a thousand e-book readers in schools in several regions across Russia over the next year. ...

According to IDTechEx research in the new report " Brand Enhancement by Electronics in Packaging 2012-2022" (www.IDTechEx.com/brand) the global demand for electronic smart packaging devices is currently at a tipping point and will grow rap...

Umass Amherst research team discovers new conducting properties of bacteria-produced nanowires The discovery of a fundamental, previously unknown property of microbial nanowires in the bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens that allows electron transpor...

Researchers from Seoul's National University develope a transparent and lightweight speaker made from Graphene. This may enable speakers embedded in windows or displays. Korean scientists have used graphene sheets to make a transparent and lightweig...

Enables interactive functionality in ultra-thin form factor PragmatIC Printing Ltd, the pioneer in imprinted logic circuits, has completed the prototype printed electronic greeting cards for Hallmark subsidiary Tigerprint Ltd. The £300k proj...

The pen may have bested the sword long ago, but now it's challenging wires and soldering irons. University of Illinois engineers have developed a silver-inked rollerball pen capable of writing electrical circuits and interconnects on paper, wood and...