The 2018 Cadillac CT6 features Super Cruise, the industry’s first true hands-free driving technology for the highway (photo: General Motors)

Osram partners with Joyson Safety Systems to provide driver monitoring systems for semi-autonomous driving


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Osram Opto Semiconductors (Munich, Germany) and Joyson Safety Systems (Auburn Hills, Michigan) are equipping the new Cadillac CT6 with an innovative system for semi-autonomous driving. ‘Super Cruise’ is the industry’s first true hands-free driving technology for the highway. Osram’s infrared and LED components, which are embedded in Joyson Safety Systems’ steering wheel for the Cadillac CT6, allow the system to monitor driver attentiveness by tracking his or her head position to ensure drivers are watching the road ahead while ‘Super Cruise’ is engaged.  

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OLEDs can be a major element of smart textiles (photo: Fraunhofer FEP)

Fraunhofer FEP: OLED integration in textiles


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Organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) are mainly known from televisions and smartphone displays. They can be used as lighting objects in car tail lights or lights. The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP (Dresden, Germany) as a partner for customer-specific OLED development and production is now presenting OLED elements that can be integrated into textiles at the Electronics System Integration Technology Conference ESTC 2018 from 18 – 21 September 2018 in Dresden.

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Johnson Lee, president of E Ink Holdings (photo: E Ink)

E Ink and Fujitsu Semiconductor join forces


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E Ink Holdings (Billerica, Massachusetts), a leader in electronic ink technology, and Fujitsu Semiconductor announced the joint development of a reference design board for battery-less ePaper tags. The solution adopts E Ink’s low voltage ePaper module and Fujitsu’s UHF FRAM RFID LSI, creating an ideal combination to enable battery-less ePaper tag applications.

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NFC technology from Thinfilm plays a major role in The Conran Shop’s collaboration with Pinterest (photo: Thinfilm)

Thinfilm partners with The Conran Shop and Pinterest to create immersive personalised shopping experience


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The Conran Shop and Pinterest are collaborating to deliver an innovative, multi-faceted experience for consumers in celebration of the London Design Festival 2018, which will enable shoppers to engage with the inspiration they see in-store and take action with a personalised shopping journey.

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Qorvo’s general manager Cees Links (photo: Qorvo)

Qorvo and LEEDARSON launch multi-standard smart lighting solutions for IoT


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Qorvo (Greensboro, North Carolina), a leading provider of innovative RF solutions, and LEEDARSON, a renowned lighting and IoT solutions company, have partnered to create a family of smart home lighting products that operate concurrently with Zigbee 3.0 and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) 5.0 protocols – offering compatibility with the most popular IoT standards. The first of these solutions is a new LEEDARSON smart light bulb and light switch that integrates Qorvo’s QPG6095 system-on-chip (SoC), a multi-protocol/multi-channel smart home communications controller for ultra-low-power wireless applications.

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