Identiv, Inc. (Fremont, California), a leader in digital identification and security, recently announced the addition of Leigh Dow as Vice President of Marketing. Dow’s appointment to this newly created role is part of the company’s ongoing transformation to become the leading provider of security and identity solutions that make the world safer and smarter. She reports directly to Identiv’s CEO Steven Humphreys.
Plastic Logic, a leader in the design and manufacture of flexible, glass-free electrophoretic displays (EPDs), has announced a significant investment in its business from DKE Displays, a China-based company specialising in the production of e-paper displays.
InnovationLab (Heidelberg, Germany), the expert in printed electronics “from lab to fab,” recently demonstrated a smart mattress cover that may reduce by up to 88% the risk of developing decubitus ulcers, the potentially life-threatening pressure ulcers that affect up to 2.5M hospital patients in the US annually. Combining InnovationLab’s flexible printed sensors with Bitquadrat’s specialised health-monitoring software, the new cost-effective platform conducts personalised, real-time risk-assessment of pressure ulcers—providing the most efficient way to inform nurses and other caregivers when patients require repositioning on their mattress.
