The U.S. Department of Defense announce today that it has awarded $75 million to the FlexTech Alliance to set up a Manufacturing Innovation Institute for flexible electronics. The money is being matched by another $96 million from San Jose and many partners: 96 companies, 11 labs and non-profits, 42 universities, and 14 states and regional organizations. FlexTech said that … [Read more...]
Printed Ears, Biosensor Patches, Better Touchscreens: FlexTech 2014 Conference Report
We spent most of last week at the Flexible Electronics 2014 conference in Phoenix. This was an extremely technical conference, all about hardware and componentry and not even a tiny bit about consumer-level products. (More than a couple of speakers talked dismissively of the current state of consumer wearables, saying "everyone has one.") If you wanted to know about substrates, … [Read more...]