Wearable technologies

Qualcomm and Enfucell have developed a SoftBattery-powered wireless golf sensor patch. 

There have been 41 301 patents published on wearable electronics from 2010 through to May 2015, and filings are growing by 40% each year. 

Peratech Holdco, the Yorkshire, UK-based developer of quantum tunnelling composites (QTCs) – a technology originally aimed at the wearable technologies market – has completed a new £1-million inves

Moticon is to co-operate with the University of Tübingen in a €265 000 German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) project.

UK technology and design consultancy Cambridge Design Partnership has developed a wearable device that measures and monitors the vital signs of multiple trauma patients for emergency response in di

Enfucell, based in Vantaa, Finland, has announced a licence partnership with Quad Industries for its SoftBattery—a thin, flexible and eco-friendly printed power source. 

Wiivv Wearables, headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, has received venture capital backing from investors including Evonik as it attempts to become one of the first companies to apply three-dimensio

Plessey’s dotLED range, designed specifically for wearable applications, has been expanded with a wider selection of colours, including red, green and blue.

The wearable technology market is worth US$24.2 billion in 2015 and will grow to three times that size in ten years – creating a market of $74 billion in 2025 – according to the latest forecasts fr

Embr Labs of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, is hoping that a bracelet that actively cools or heats the skin of its wearer will resonate with consumers.

According to a new report from Tractica, the worldwide unit shipments of clinical and non-clinical connected wearable patches will grow to 12.3 million annually by 2020, up from just 67 000 in 2014

A soft robotic glove under development at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, has the potential to help people suffering from loss of hand motor control to regain

Berlin, Germany-based Luginin is launching a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo in support of a new product called Smartnanny. 

An international team of scientists has pioneered a technique to embed transparent, flexible graphene electrodes in common textile fibres.

One of the biggest limitations to wearable electronic devices is the capacity of their batteries to deliver enough power to transmit data. Researchers in the USA and Canada have now developed a pro

Tokyo, Japan-headquartered Toshiba Corp has developed a new low-power control technology for microcontrollers supporting multi-sensor wearable devices. 

At International Newsletters’ 2015 Nonwovens for High-performance Applications (NHPA) conference held in Cannes, France, in March 2015, Senior Scientist Margreet de Kok outlined the work b

An inexpensive flexible battery with the ability to fully charge a smartphone in less than a minute and keep working for thousands of cycles could have a revolutionary influence on many industries,

During 2014, the Takao Someya Organic Transistor Laboratory at the University of Tokyo in Japan announced the development of the world’s lightest and thinnest conformable sensor system for the manu

Teardown, headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, insists manufacturers of the latest electronic devices often appreciate it taking them apart to show exactly how they are put together.

Bainisha is a Lokeren, Belgium-based start-up dedicated to developing a more accessible and accurate body motion capturing system with both sports and medical applications.

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.

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