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Traditional forms of vending have relied on limited interactions between consumers and machines. Vending, in principle, is a retail operation that requires minimal human intervention and the machines should be as autonomous as possible. The connectivity afforded by the Internet of Things (IoT) will enable a fully autonomous vending operation and it...

This issue of Microelectronics TOE covers recent developments in brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies for healthcare applications. Innovations profiled include BCI enabling sense of touch for disabled by the University of Chicago Medicine, speech recognition from neural networks by the University of Bremen, a bi-directional BCI providing sen...

This issue of Microelectronics TOE covers recent advances in microfluidic technology and provides insights on patents, applications impacted, market landscape, growth factors, and adoption barriers. Innovations profiled include a fabrication process for a polymer-based integrated microfluidic chip by Epigem, a bonding technology at room temperature...

This issue of Microelectronics TOE covers advancements in holographic display technology. Key innovations profiled include a interactive holographic display by Provision Interactive Technologies, an integrated holographic system for medical imaging by EchoPixel, LEIA's holographic technique, and a holographic flexible smartphone by the Queen's Univ...

This issue of Microelectronics TOE covers advances in photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Innovations profiled include a microlenses-based hybrid integration technology by Kaiam Corporation, a CMOS technology enabled PIC Interconnect by Luxtera Inc., a monolithically integrated Indium phosphide-based PIC transceiver by OneChip Photonics Inc., and ...

This issue of Microelectronics TOE covers recent advancements in wearables for environmental monitoring. Innovations profiled include a portable air quality monitoring solution by TZOA Wireless World; a wearable wristband, which can monitor and absorb chemicals by MyExposome; a device for monitoring multiple parameters by the University of Massachu...

This issue of Microelectronics TOE covers recent advancements in data storage technologies and provides insights on patents, growth factors, applications impacted, and adoption barriers. Innovations profiled include helium-filled data storage systems, graphene-based futuristic flash drives, a synthetic DNA-based data storage technique, and random a...

The objective of this study is to understand the opportunity for Radio-frequency Identification (RFID) in connected retail. RFID has traditionally been focused on the back-end applications; however, this is about to change as retail transitions from traditional and online business models to that of connected retail. Emerging applications covered in...

This study discusses the opportunities of semiconductors in wearable devices and their impact on the industry till 2022. It provides the recent trends in the market, with significant proliferation of wearable devices, and the future of the semiconductors market, as well as technological trends. The wearable devices market is likely to record a mass...