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PGI Specialty Materials to acquire Dounor

26 March 2015

PGI Specialty Materials has reached an agreement to acquire Dounor, a French manufacturer of materials used in hygiene, healthcare and industrial applications.

Blood pressure cuff shield

25 March 2015

Biovation has launched the BioArmour Blood Pressure Cuff Shield (BPCS) to mitigate the spread of infectious pathogens from blood pressure cuffs.

Award for route to truly foldable displays

25 March 2015

SmartKem’s tru-FLEX semiconductor platform for high-performance flexible electronics has won the Innovative Product of the Year award at the 2015 ESTnet Awards.

innoLAE 2015—latest in organic electronics

23 March 2015

The latest biomedical applications using organic electronics technologies were presented at innoLAE 2015, the first annual conference organized by the new EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manuf

Solar fashion for the high street

20 March 2015

The Solar Shirt designed by Pauline Van Dongen is a very practical step in the right direction in respect of truly integrated solar garments for the mass market.

Smart bandage detects bedsores before they are visible

18 March 2015

A team of US scientists from the Berkeley and San Francisco campuses of the University of California in the USA have devised smart bandages that can detect bedsores long before they become visible.

Tiny portfolio of big ideas

1 March 2015

At the Nano Tech 2015 exhibition and conference at the Tokyo Big Sight in Japan in January, Teijin exhibited what has grown into a significant range of new materials.

Biosurgery with a dressing

1 March 2015

BioMonde has manufactured and supplied Larval Therapy products in Europe since 1994 and is now introducing its BioBag for patient use in the United States.

Macronix targets wearables

1 March 2015

Macronix, a Taiwanese provider of non-volatile memory solutions, has launched a new family of wide-voltage, ultra-low-power NOR Flash memory products designed for next-generation wearable devices.

Next generation fabric sensors

1 March 2015

New Zealand's StretchSense was the winner of the 2015 Wearable Technologies Innovation World Cup in the Sports and Fitness category.

Wearable tech sheds its baby fat

1 March 2015

Over 500 delegates attended the Wearable Technologies Conference at the ICM Conference Centre of Munich's Messe in Germany on February 2-3 - ahead of the ISPO winter sports show from February 4-8 - an

Active particle technology on trend

1 March 2015

Cocona, a manufacturer of active particle technologies under the brand name 37.5, based in Boulder, Colarado,had seven fabrics selected for inclusion in the Textrends 2015 forum, part of the ISPO spor

New system for deepwater operations

1 March 2015

A cooperation between three Dutch companies for developing solutions for deepwater installations has led to the introduction of a new system capable of handling heavy loads at depths of well over thre

Fabric that kills on contact

1 March 2015

Professors Vijay Mannari and Subhas Ghosh of Eastern Michigan University have received US patent 8,764,851 for a durable, washable, antibacterial fabric created with a grant from the army.

Bagir offers DeoTag technology

1 March 2015

Odegon DeoTags are now included in the specification options of the Bagir Group, a multi-national group of companies involved in the design, development and manufacture of own brand and private label

Thermal imaging for wearable augmented reality headsets

1 March 2015

Metaio, a developer of augmented reality (AR) software and solutions, has made public research and development for a never-before-seen user interface that combines thermal imaging with augmented reali

Potential with high melt viscosity resins

1 March 2015

A series of research projects at Fibre Extrusion Technology (FET) in the UK have resulted in new processing technologies and equipment designs that enable melt spun nonwovens to be successfully produc

Good vibrations with the new Myovolt

1 March 2015

Hong Kong-based Myovolt's technology is a targeted frequency vibration device worn by athletes to boost their muscle performance and enhance tissue recovery.

You are what you eat

1 March 2015

BitBite, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, showcased its wearable device designed to help people lose weight and improve their eating habits at Wearable Technologies 2015.

The force behind flex

1 March 2015

After many years of experience in the US, Flexible Circuit Technologies - the company behind many successful wearable tech products such as the Nike band - has opened its first European Sales office i

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