by Alfred Poor | October 31, 2014 | Enabling Tech
Researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP in collaboration with scientists at the Technical University of Dresden and Oulu University in Finland have developed a new way to create thin-film piezoelectric...
by Alfred Poor | October 24, 2014 | Enabling Tech
Better battery technology continues to be the linchpin for the creation of new mobile and wearable devices. Designers are looking for battery technologies that are thinner, lighter, and pack more power storage capacity into the space and weight required by the...
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by Alfred Poor | October 14, 2014 | Fitness, Health
Would you wear this? A new company called Arubixs is developing a new kind of smartphone that you wear on your wrist. The Portal smartphone is designed to be rugged, waterproof, and flexible so that you can carry your phone without worrying about damaging it in spite...
by Alfred Poor | October 10, 2014 | Enabling Tech
We have extolled the wonders of graphene here before; there seems to be no end of what these single-atom-thick sheets of carbon can do. And now comes word from MIT of a new development that expands the potential of this miracle material even further. Carbon is an...
by Alfred Poor | October 3, 2014 | Enabling Tech
The market tracking firm IHS forecasts rapid growth in displays for wearable devices. Not all devices need a display, but for many categories — such as smartwatches — the display more or less defines the user’s interaction with the system. A rigid...
