Imec’s CMOS-compatible NeuroSeeker high-density neural probe (photo: Imec)

Imec creates innovative neural probe demonstrator


Products

Imec, a leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies from Leuven, Belgium, announced at its Imec Technology Forum (ITF) health event, that is has designed and fabricated a demonstrator of a neural probe with unprecedented electrode density within the framework Neuroseeker, a large-scale EU-project. Designed and fabricated in silicon chip technology, the probe is suitable for breakthrough bio-interfaces and implants that are expected to shape the future of neuroscience. With hundreds of electrodes capable of contacting and reading out single neurons, this probe incorporates innovations that point the way to a better understanding of the brain, and ultimately will lead to diagnostic and prosthetic tools to tackle human brain diseases.

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InPrint 2017 will once again honour product innovations in the industrial print field (photo: Mack Brooks Exhibitions)

InPrint 2017: Online vote for the Innovation Awards now open


Exhibitions / Events

InPrint 2017, the Exhibition for Industrial Print Technology, will be held from 14 - 16 November 2017 at the Munich Trade Fair Centre in Germany. This year, the show presents the Innovation Awards sponsored by Ricoh, to reward product innovations in two categories. With the new Innovation Awards, InPrint 2017 will acknowledge the progression within the industry and will award innovative and forward-thinking entrepreneurship.

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Thinfilm’s NFC SpeedTap tags (photo: Thin Film Electronics)

Thinfilm and GlaxoSmithKline bring NFC technology to leading over-the-counter brand Flonase


Products

Thin Film Electronics ASA (Oslo, Norway), a global leader in NFC mobile marketing and smart packaging solutions, announced that GlaxoSmithKline, one of the world’s leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, has commercially deployed Thinfilm’s unique SpeedTap tags to create interactive ‘smart’ shelves for enhanced communication with consumers at time of purchase decision-making.

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Gauzy LCG (Liquid Crystal Glass) provides a switchable smart glass solution allowing opacity and transparency on demand (photo: Avery Dennison)

Avery Dennison makes capital investment in liquid crystal specialty films developer Gauzy


Companies / Markets

The Avery Dennison Corporation (Glendale, California), a global materials science and manufacturing company specialising in the design and manufacture of a wide variety of labeling and functional materials, has made an investment in Gauzy, an Israeli-based developer and manufacturer of liquid-crystal-based materials, films, applications and solutions for a variety of end markets including construction, automotive, consumer electronics, home appliances, the solar industry and more.

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A comic book with E Ink’s technology (photo: E Ink)

E Ink partners with Progress Technologies to deliver a new comic book experience


Products

E Ink Holdings, a leading innovator of electronic ink technology based in Billerica, Massachusetts, announced its partnership with Progress Technologies Inc., a technical service for design development, to bring E Ink’s ePaper modules to a first-of-its-kind E-Manga solution, the eOneBook.  Developed for readers who prefer paperback comic books to tablets, the eOneBook combines an entire volume of manga comics into a single device using E Ink’s low-power, high contrast paper-like display.

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