Printed Batteries are Making Waves
According to a new report from Technavio, the global printed batteries market is going to grow by more than $370 million and post a cumulative average growth rate of 54% from 2014-2019.
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Integration of IR Cores in Smartphones Will Help Boost Sales in the Infrared Sensors Market
According to newly-released information from Technavio, the global infrared sensors market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 11.14% from 2014-2019, to reach an overall revenue of more than $556 million by 2019.
Apple’s Presence Will Help Haptics Go Mainstream in Mobile Devices
The level to which we are able to interact with electronics is getting deeper and deeper, and haptic technology is the latest in a long line of technology used to enhance how we communicate with our devices. What is haptic technology? Haptics is a tactile feedback technology that basically uses the sense of touch by…
Stable, Efficient and Precise: Fiber Lasers are Evolving to Fit Industry Needs
What’s a fiber laser? Technically… Fiber lasers employ semiconductor diodes as the light source to pump specialty optical fibers, which are doped with rare-earth elements. The laser emission is channeled and amplified through an optical fiber, and the amplified light is collimated or straightened and then focused by a lens onto the material to perform…
Big Growth and Even Bigger Challenges Will Impact the Wearables Market Through 2019
Wearable tech has had a few false starts. On one hand, the technology is very influential in both consumer and industrial segments. On the other, items like the Google Glass and even the Apple Watch (despite the company selling somewhere in the ballpark of 4.1 million units by June of this year) have been released,…
Top Mobile Augmented Reality Companies for Marketing and Advertising
Getting potential customers to engage with a product or service is getting harder, which is forcing marketers to find innovative ways to connect with consumers. This is why augmented reality, or AR, is being adopted in marketing and advertising in a big way. The technology blends digital content with the physical world by displaying computer-generated…
Augmented Reality Is Changing the Way We Work, Learn, and Tell Stories
A video surfaced recently, featuring stunning footage of Disney animator Glen Keane drawing life size versions well-known Disney characters in virtual reality. Keane, whose credits include the Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Tarzan (to name a few), speaks at length about his approach to animation and how new technologies like VR fit into storytelling. “When I…
Will Chromebooks Be Enough to Sustain the Faltering Laptop Market?
The global laptop market is in trouble. Ultra-portable devices like tablets, smartphones and phablets are slowly chipping away at the market share of traditional laptops. These devices can do everything a laptop can—from accessing enterprise applications, to providing access to fast Internet, gaming, and other important features—all in a very convenient, mobile package. Coupled with…
Augmented Reality is Unavoidable: Buy-In from Industry Behemoths Will Solidify Ubiquity of AR
Apple’s acquisition of Metaio in May followed months of rumors that the company was exploring AR to compliment services like maps and, unofficially, to unseat the less-than-popular Google Glass. According to the Wall Street Journal, “Metaio has worked on a technology that allows people wearing Google Glass-like eyewear to make any real world surface into a virtual touch…
Gesture Recognition: Coming to a Smartphone Near You
Gesture recognition is the newest development in a laundry list of technologies aimed at improving how we interact with the gadgets in our lives. It’s novel and arguably more natural than pressing buttons, which are both factors contributing to a CAGR of 75.87% in the gesture recognition market for smartphones. Gesture Recognition: Pros The…