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DFRobot’s HuskyLens, an AI Vision Sensor, included in the “forget-me-not” for Alzheimer’s patients

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SHANGHAI, March 4, 2021 — Alzheimer’s disease is a common syndrome among older people worldwide. In China, there are about 10 million Alzheimer’s patients by now, ranking first in the world. By 2050, the number of Alzheimer’s patients in China is estimated to reach 45 million.

Lu Yuan, a Chinese teenager, invented an AI Wearable called the "forget-me-not" for his grandmother, who is in the early stage of Alzheimer’s disease. The AI Wearable can help patients recognize their family members and guide them home through a built-in voice assistant.

AI Wearable “forget-me-not” Version 2.0
AI Wearable “forget-me-not” Version 2.0

According to Lu’s introduction, the AI Wearable uses Arduino Nano and is equipped with a built-in HuskyLens AI Vision Sensor developed by DFRobot, an ultraviolet sensor, MP3 module, and uses Mind+ for programming. The overall appearance is modeled by 123D Design and the shell is made using SLA (Stereolithography) technology and conducted the process of grinding, polishing and painting.    

The built-in HuskyLens in the AI Wearable is an easy-to-use AI vision sensor. It adopts the built-in machine learning technology which can identify human faces. By a simple click, HuskyLens can finish the AI training and start to learn and recognize the new face. Engineered with a built-in UART or I2C interface, HuskyLens can seamlessly dock with Arduino Nano. If the AI Wearable recognizes it is a recorded face, it will control the MP3 module, and tell the Alzheimer’s patients through the earpiece whom they are talking to, along with other bits of information.

The built-in ultraviolet sensor can sense the intensity of ultraviolet rays to tell Alzheimer’s patients whether they are indoors or outdoors. If the AD patients are outdoors for 20 minutes or longer, the AI Wearable will remind them to go back home and play home addresses at the same time.

Of course, being able to make such an invention at such an age is inseparable from his specialized learning since he was a child. According to Lu’s introduction, he got in touch with programming when he was a fourth grader. Lu’s heart-warming invention has become a hit on Chinese social media and hopes this invention helps more Alzheimer’s patients in the future.

About DFRobot

DFRobot is a world-leading robotics and open source hardware provider with a large community catering to future creators. The company was founded in 2008 and is currently headquartered in Shanghai, China. Focusing on the promotion of maker/STEAM/AI education and the development of innovative talents of next generation, DFRobot provides high-quality, various intelligent education hardware resources and services in the past few years. So far, DFRobot has entered up to 8,000 schools from over 200 countries and regions globally, with its products and services well-received by more than 20,000 teachers and millions of students worldwide.

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Fine Fragrance RE│IMAGINED: Firmenich and Central Saint Martins Project the Future Role of Fine Fragrance

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GENEVA, March 4, 2021 — Firmenich, the world’s largest privately-owned fragrance and taste company, has teamed up in an exclusive collaboration with world-renowned arts and design college Central Saint Martins in London to reimagine the future of fine fragrance. Twenty-one projects provide a unique, "fragrance forward" vision for game-changing uses of fine fragrance, from heat relief, water conservation, and community empowerment, to mindful eating and scent travel.

Scent Fountain, one of the concepts created for the 14th edition of Firmenich’s Olfactive Design program in collaboration with students at Central Saint Martins. © CSM
Scent Fountain, one of the concepts created for the 14th edition of Firmenich’s Olfactive Design program in collaboration with students at Central Saint Martins. © CSM

"Firmenich is empowering a positive future for fine fragrance," said Ilaria Resta, President, Global Perfumery, Firmenich. "Through both RE|GENERATION and Olfactive Design, we are writing a new story including creation, distribution points, distribution methods, and physical or digital experiences, to reinvent the value of fine fragrance. Perfume becomes a social intermediary, identity marker and mindful catalyst."

"These inspirational projects with the talented next generation of designers are nourished by science and art. They represent both the future of luxury and the ultimate essence of fine fragrance," added Mehdi Lisi, VP, Global Fine Fragrance, Creation, Development and Innovation (CDI), Firmenich. "We are proud to share this work, co-created with Central Saint Martins."

The 14th edition of Firmenich’s Olfactive Design program is an unique collaboration with students in the Master of Arts of Narrative Environments and of Material Futures at Central Saint Martins. Partnered with Firmenich Fine Fragrance perfumers, students worked collectively to imagine seven future worlds with both utopian and dystopian attributes: Hope & Re-Enchantment, Danger/Chaos/Risk, Circularity, Generations & Memory, Hybrid Experiences, Identity and Pleasure & Wellbeing. Together, teams co-created prototypes, installations and bespoke fragrances inspired by the students’ work to show how fragrance will impact our world in the years to come. 

Bethany Shepherd, Professor of MA Narrative Environments at Central Saint Martins said: "This is the first time our students have worked with perfume. With the rise in popularity of immersive experiences and meaningful interactions, students were keen to explore how scent can link both personal and cultural memory, and how olfactive experiences connect people to better understand each other and their environments."

  • Global warming has formed urban heat islands in heavily populated areas and cities worldwide, where natural land is replaced with buildings and surfaces that retain heat (such as pavement). Manmade heat affects humans in many ways, from creating additional stress to amplifying illnesses. Looking at the theme of Danger/Chaos/Risk, student Lars Dittrich provides a counterbalance to these islands. As a solution, he created a Fragrance Ventilator that captures hot air as it rises, humidifies and cools the air in a tube, and then releases jets of fragrance from vents as cool, scented breeze. Senior Perfumer Dora Baghriche imagined a scent to emphasize a refreshing sensation, with a green accord to emulate the relieving sensation of vegetal freshness and a mineral facet to suggest an implicit petrichor effect of fresh rain. She also added a touch of Freezestorm®, a breakthrough technology, delivering a long-lasting cooling sensation that reinforces the hyper-sensoriality of the project.
  • Addressing the theme of Pleasure & Wellbeing, student Alessia Yu created a program to help individuals temper emotional eating habits at a time when eating disorders are on the rise. Her Mindful Dining experience proposes to restore a person’s full awareness of what he or she is tasting, therefore bringing more joy and wellbeing to the individual’s life. Olfaction contributes as much as 80-90% to the taste of one’s food, thus scent is a powerful tool to engage a person’s senses and create a more pleasurable food experience. The dining adventure begins with a customized dessert subscription, delivered with a scent box diffuser and audio-guided meditation. As a person begins the guided, mindful journey, they are introduced to each ingredient and layer of the dessert they’re about to eat via fragrances emitted from the diffuser box as well as imagery on screen. This exercise amplifies smells and textures to better appreciate taste. In this example, Firmenich Perfumer Alexis Grugeon brought the dessert experience to life with an addictive banana bread fragrance. Using Smell The Taste™ technology transporting the individual to thoughts of home-baked goods, he mixed the rich creaminess of banana with notes of walnut, wrapped in a refined orris trail.
  • With the feeling of Hope & Re-Enchantment as a guide, student Aliza Ruzavina created a communal Scent Fountain to help local communities take ownership of the future of their neighborhoods. The fountain lives at the center of each town, and features opinion polls about community issues, such as new building development, industrial changes, traffic density and natural park spaces. When voting, people smell scented tubes around the fountain containing different fragrances related to different outcomes of the poll. Each scent relates to a unique characteristic of what the community could smell like if a change is made. Once a person has smelled all of the options, they cast their ballot by pushing a button. Principal Perfumer Hamid Merati-Kashani imagined a fragrance that argues in favor of positive and eco-conscious communal behaviors, using notes of pink pepper, an exclusive NaturePrint® magnolia scent, and biodegradable and renewable Sorbettolide® musk as key ingredients. Each of these elements recall the existence of nature in the midst of a city, helping empower the community and people who live there to make healthy and eco-friendly decisions.

The impressive, thought-provoking prototypes were showcased in a live, day-long, closed-door exhibit held at Central Saint Martins in London in December 2020. Students walked attendees through their concepts, constructions and fragrance creations. Access to the projects is now available exclusively on Firmenich’s RE|GENERATION website so that customers and consumers can view the intricate works via images and video footage of each project. Additional content will be added bi-weekly, covering new themes, projects and insights.

"Olfactive Design encourages us to think about the future of fine fragrance through new uses and application techniques. As the world changes, from climate issues to political and cultural unrest, so does our perfumery. Our industry has the ability to course correct current and future concerns, as fragrance plays a critical role in the wellbeing of future generations," said Associate Perfumer Alexis Grugeon.

Since 1998, Firmenich’s Olfactive Design program explores a thematic from artistic and sensorial standpoints. Each edition offers a unique experience engaging our senses as well as our imagination. This exclusive immersion takes us on an olfactive journey showcasing the creativity of our Fine Fragrance perfumers from Paris, New York, Sao Paulo and Dubai, who work with full creative freedom.

Launched in July 2020, celebrating Firmenich’s 125-year legacy and leadership in Fine Fragrance, RE|GENERATION is a global call-to-action embracing the radical optimism of change and examining how it will shape the future of the fine fragrance industry. The movement invites the fragrance community, customers, consumers, artists and influencers to work together to innovate, rejuvenate and drive the transformation of Fine Fragrance. @FirmenichFine #FragranceIsCulture #RegenerationReset.

For more about Olfactive Design and RE|GENERATION, please visit: https://regeneration.firmenich.com/.

About Firmenich
Firmenich, the world’s largest privately-owned fragrance and taste company, was founded in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1895, and has been family-owned for 125 years. Firmenich is a leading business-to-business company specialized in the research, creation, manufacture and sale of perfumes, flavors and ingredients. Renowned for its world-class research and creativity, as well as its leadership in sustainability, Firmenich offers its customers superior innovation in formulation, a broad and high-quality palette of ingredients, and proprietary technologies including biotechnology, encapsulation, olfactory science and taste modulation. Firmenich had an annual turnover of 3.9 billion Swiss Francs at end June 2020. More information about Firmenich is available at www.firmenich.com

About Central Saint Martins University

Central Saint Martins, UAL is globally renowned for the creative energy of its students, staff and graduates. Its educational reputation across art, design and performance is demonstrated by alumni who shape the world including Grace Wales Bonner, Matty Bovan, Terence Conran, Michael Fassbender, Antony Gormley, Craig Green, Tom Hardy, Isaac Julien, Jean Jullien, Christopher Kane, Helen Marten, Stella McCartney, Alexander McQueen, Morag Myerscough, Sandy Powell, Laure Prouvost and Raqib Shaw among many others. Central Saint Martins is part of University of the Arts London (UAL), an international center for innovative teaching and research in arts, design, fashion, communication and the performing arts. www.arts.ac.uk/csm 

 

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Technology and Art of Light in the Spotlight: Artists from around the World Gather at Shenzhen International Light Art Forum

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SHENZHEN, China, Feb. 26, 2021 — The 1st Shenzhen International Light Art Forum, one of the most important events of GLOW SHENZHEN 2020, was successfully held on February 24, 2021. With guidance from the Urban Administration and Law Enforcement Bureau and the Commerce Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality and support from Shenzhen International Investment & Promotion Association, the forum was hosted by IDG World Expo China Co.,Ltd., organized by IDG ASIA Accelerator, and attended by representatives of relevant departments and enterprises together with experts and artists in fields of light & shadow, art and new technology. Jian Zheng, Deputy Director of the Commerce Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality; Zhou Yaowei, Official of the Shenzhen Urban Administration and Law Enforcement Bureau; and Zhu Dongfang, President of IDG ASIA, addressed the forum respectively.

With an array of keynote speeches and roundtable discussions, the forum academically explored the art of light and shadow covering topics of empowering future cities, boosting night economy, and back-feeding cities’ soft power. Participants of these online and offline discussions included Wang Zhi‘ou (Chief Curator of GLOW SHENZHEN 2020), Qiu Zhijie (Dean of School of Experimental Art, Central Academy of Fine Arts), Cai Xinyuan (Associate Dean of School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Liu Jun (General Manager of Strategic Market Center of Unilumin), teams of artists such as Radugadesign from Russia and ENESS from Australia, as well as experts of light technology and related industries. In one of the roundtable discussions themed "exploring the influence of light art on city life and public space in the future", Wen Bin, Director of IDG ASIA Accelerator, Qin Xiu, Founder of Aura Project, and other representatives shared enlightening insights from different walks of life. The discussion was hosted by Professor Zhang Yuxing from School of Architecture & Urban Planning, Shenzhen University.

In the forum, the Urban Administration and Law Enforcement Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality and IDG ASIA signed a five-year framework agreement, with the aim to build GLOW SHENZHEN into a world-renowned brand of city light art exhibition.

In the forum, the Urban Administration and Law Enforcement Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality and IDG ASIA signed a five-year framework agreement
In the forum, the Urban Administration and Law Enforcement Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality and IDG ASIA signed a five-year framework agreement

Wen Bin, Director of IDG ASIA Accelerator, expressed his hope that this forum, as an industry-academia-research platform for the development of tech-based art, can help Shenzhen lead the world in scientific and technological innovation and play an exemplary role in the integration of "technology + art" for the world. IDG ASIA also wishes to make full use of its resources in technology, investment, convention& exhibition, industry& research, media, culture& tourism to support GLOW SHENZHEN 2020.

"The brightness of lighting in a region at night is proportionate to the GDP of that region." A healthy business environment can unleash the potential of night consumption to promote a city’s economic growth. This forum received strategic support form Shenzhen International Investment & Promotion Association (SZIIPA), a non-profit organization initiated by the Shenzhen Investment Holdings Co., Ltd. and other institutions. Sticking to the forum’s core topics such as technology industry, urban art and economic development, SZIIPA drew on all kinds of resources from enterprises that have invested in Shenzhen to support the building of industry-academia-research platforms, to connect global investment resources, and to consistently promote Shenzhen’s business environment and its image.

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Gale and Bodleian Libraries at University of Oxford Announce the Gale Scholar Asia Pacific, Digital Humanities Oxford Fellowships

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FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., Feb. 25, 2021 — The Bodleian Libraries and Gale, a Cengage Company, are delighted to announce the launch of the Gale Scholar Asia Pacific, Digital Humanities Oxford Fellowships program. Funded by Gale, the fellowships will support three scholars for a three-month period of research into a digital humanities related topic at the University of Oxford, using the Centre for Digital Scholarship of the Bodleian Libraries. The goal of the program is to encourage emerging digital humanities scholarship in the Asia Pacific region and progress the contribution of non-Western and regional perspectives in the field of digital humanities research.

The Bodleian Libraries and Gale would like to congratulate the following candidates awarded the fellowships in 2021/2022 as well as highlight the projects they will be pursuing:

  • Dr. Tuo Chen, research assistant professor, faculty of history,
    Nankai University, China
    Project: Dr Chen’s project, The Communication Circuit of Chinese Christian Books (1807-1949), aims to extend his doctoral work on Chinese and Western Book culture and cultural exchange by examining Chinese Christian books.
  • Dr. Hsuan-Ying Tu, assistant professor in early modern history, school of history and researcher of the Research Centre for Digital Humanities,
    Renmin University of China
    Project: With her project, Clientage, Politics and the Elizabethan Regime: Digital Humanities and New Perspectives, Dr. Hsuan-Ying Tu will use the digital humanities to unravel the web of deliberately complex papers left by Elizabethan ‘spymaster’ Francis Walsingham and others and explore ways to visualize these webs of data and power relationships.
  • Dr. Mark Byron, associate professor in modern and contemporary literature, department of English, University of Sydney
    Project: Dr. Byron’s project, Digitizing Samuel Beckett’s novel Watt: The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project and Beyond, aims to widen historical understanding of the novel by placing it within the historical context of its composition during the Second World War. Dr. Byron’s ambition is to open complex manuscripts to a wider readership through building digital ‘clues‘ and pathways so readers can explore contexts and the relationships of this work to contemporary issues of political radicalisms and migration.

"Welcoming our first cohort of Gale Fellows is tremendously exciting. They are a group of leading researchers and academics who will advance their respective fields through exploring new forms of scholarship using digital techniques and approaches," said Richard Ovendon, Bodley’s librarian in the University of Oxford. "The Bodleian Libraries are excited at the prospect of working with these three talented individuals as they pursue ambitious projects that will advance our understanding of the humanities, based on our rich holdings of primary sources in both physical and digital form."

Along with access to the special collections of the Bodleian Libraries, the fellows will be able to access Gale Primary Sources and the Gale Digital Scholar Lab to assist them with their digital humanities initiatives.

"We are thrilled at sponsoring these fellowships and know these three scholars will enjoy a rich experience at the University of Oxford," said Terry Robinson, senior vice president and managing director of Gale International. "Gale will continue to publish rich and varied primary document archives and are fully committed to the ongoing development of the Gale Digital Scholar Lab which, I’m sure the three scholars will make use of at Oxford. Our commitment to enabling digital scholarship is at the core of our values and I look forward to many years ahead of cooperating with the Bodleian Libraries and the University of Oxford."

The fellows will start their new posts at the University of Oxford between October 2021 and May 2022. They will be expected to present their work at TORCH (The Oxford Centre for Research in the Humanities) and can propose to develop a digital resource or other innovative output during their time at Oxford.

To learn more about the fellowship projects, visit the Digital Humanities Oxford Fellowships webpage.

About Cengage and Gale
Cengage, an education technology company serving millions of learners in 165 countries, advances the way students learn through quality, digital experiences. The company currently serves the K-12, higher education, professional, library, English language teaching and workforce training markets worldwide. Gale, a Cengage company, provides libraries with original and curated content, as well as the modern research tools and technology that are crucial in connecting libraries to learning, and learners to libraries. For more than 60 years, Gale has partnered with libraries around the world to empower the discovery of knowledge and insights – where, when and how people need it. Gale has 500 employees globally with its main operations in Farmington Hills, Michigan. For more information, please visit: www.gale.com/intl.

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The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford is the largest university library system in the United Kingdom. It includes the principal University library – the Bodleian Library – which has been a legal deposit library for 400 years; as well as 27 libraries across Oxford including major research libraries and faculty, department and institute libraries. Together, the Libraries hold more than 13 million printed items, over 80,000 e-journals and outstanding special collections including rare books and manuscripts, classical papyri, maps, music, art and printed ephemera. Members of the public can explore the collections via the Bodleian’s online image portal at digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk or by visiting the exhibition galleries in the Bodleian’s Weston Library. For more information, visit www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Menarini Silicon Biosystems announces launch of CellMag™ product line offering affordable Gold Standard Circulating Tumor Cells capture

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CELLMAG – a cost effective, manual and simple approach for the enrichment and staining of extremely rare cells from blood

BOLOGNA, Italy and HUNTINGDON VALLEY, Pa., Feb. 16, 2021 — Menarini Silicon Biosystems, a pioneer of liquid biopsy and single cell technologies, announced today the launch of its innovative CellMag product line for the manual enrichment and staining of rare circulating tumor cells (CTCs). This new product line, composed of the CellMag CTC Epithelial Cell kit, a magnetic tool and consumables, will allow all liquid biopsy and CTCs Laboratories to have access to a manual system using the same ferrofluid technology offered by the Gold Standard CELLSEARCH system.

This easy to use technology offers researchers who work on translational projects a reliable tool to study the heterogeneous biology of CTCs, whose presence in blood has been associated with poor prognosis in metastatic carcinomas[1].

Despite different available methods to capture CTCs, only the information obtained from CTCs that have been captured by the CELLSEARCH ferrofluid technology have shown a robust clinical value in different settings[1]. Research laboratories will appreciate the convenience, simplicity and affordability of CellMag. Researchers can analyze and characterize enriched CTCs from a molecular perspective with a high level of specificity, gaining valuable insights into how certain tumors progress and disseminate throughout the body. "CellMag is a manual system for the capture and enhancement of CTCs using the established ferrofluid technology. Perfectly tailored to our research needs, it offers a manual version of the reference CELLSEARCH platform," said Dr. Catherine Alix-Panabières, Associate Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Rare Human Circulating Cells (LCCRH) at the University Medical Center of Montpellier, France.

The CellMag CTC Ephitelial Cell kit allows research centers, focusing on liquid biopsies, to conduct highly specific, established and standardized immunomagnetic enrichment and staining of CTCs in peripheral blood. Following the positive selection of enriched cells, performed by capturing cells through ferrofluids labeled with antibodies that target the (EpCAM) antigen, the staining procedure delivers cells that are ready for enumeration, isolation and downstream analysis. The final step of cell sorting can be performed by the DEPArray system or other downstream applications including flow cytometry, fluorescent microscopy or molecular and phenotype analyses.

For Fabio Piazzalunga, President and CEO of Menarini Silicon Biosystems: "Our manual CellMag product line allows all liquid biopsy and CTCs Laboratories to reach high specificity in cell enrichment and staining, leveraging the established CELLSEARCH ferrofluid technology. With this simple and standardized solution we are committed to helping all researchers develop scientific understanding and improve medical knowledge related to human diseases." 

The CellMag product line family will be expanded in the coming months to offer a series of additional kits for the enrichment of other rare cell types.

About CELLMAG™

CELLMAG is intended for Research Use Only (RUO) – not for use in diagnostic procedures. This product line allows for highly specific and standardized cell enrichment and staining. Cells captured with the CellMag technology are comparable to those captured with the CELLTRACKS® AUTOPREP® System. The product line is composed of an epithelial CTC kit, for ferrofluid-based EpCAM positive CTC enrichment, a magnetic tool and consumables. The process involves a sample preparation phase, followed by the magnetic separation of CTCs, sample washing, permeabilization and staining.

For more information on the CELLMAG product line, please refer to www.siliconbiosystems.com/cellmag

About Menarini Silicon Biosystems

Menarini Silicon Biosystems offers unique rare cell technologies and solutions that provide clinical researchers with access to unparalleled resolution in the study of cells and their molecular characterization.

Menarini Silicon Biosystems, based in Bologna, Italy, and Huntingdon Valley, Pa., U.S., is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Menarini Group, a multinational pharmaceutical, biotechnology and diagnostics company headquartered in Florence, Italy, with more than 17,000 employees in 140 countries.

Reference

[1] Riethdorf S, O’Flaherty L, Hille C, Pantel K. Clinical applications of the CellSearch platform in cancer patients. Adv Drug Deliv Rev. 2018 Feb 1;125:102-121. doi: 10.1016/j.addr.2018.01.011. Epub 2018 Feb 2. PMID: 29355669.

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Safer medical devices with Picosun’s antimicrobial ALD coatings

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ESPOO, Finland, Feb. 13, 2021 — Picosun Group, the leading provider of AGILE ALD® (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating technology and solutions, reports excellent aseptic properties measured from its ALD materials.

Numerous ALD oxide coatings deposited with Picosun’s processes showed remarkable reduction of microbial growth and had low values of bacterial endotoxin contamination(*). The coatings were characterized by an independent third party laboratory according to ISO 22196:2011 antimicrobial standard and ANSI/AAMI ST72:2019 bacterial endotoxin standards. These results, along with the earlier tests validating the non-cytotoxicity of Picosun’s ALD films, prove the safety and aseptic benefits of these materials in medical devices, both implanted and external ones.

Millions of people worldwide live with medical implants and the trend is towards even more complex solutions that combine highly advanced microelectronics with miniaturized devices embedded into sensitive areas of the body such as brain, spine, eyes, and heart. Protecting these devices from the corrosive environment of the human body, and vice versa, is of utmost importance considering the safety, correct operation, and lifetime of the implant.

Picosun is the trailblazer in providing medical ALD solutions to device manufacturers. Picosun’s ultra-thin, biocompatible ALD coatings guarantee hermetic encapsulation of the implanted device, with a fraction of film thickness compared to other coating methods and with superior film uniformity and conformality, ensuring pinhole-free coverage over even the smallest details of the device. Extended lifetime and operational reliability of the implant reduces the need for corrective or replacement surgeries, thus saving expensive hospital stays and improving the patient’s quality of life. For manufacturers, hermetic protective coating enables use of more common base materials, e.g. stainless steels instead of precious metals, which in turn makes the manufacturing process easier and saves costs.

"The aseptic properties of our ALD films are so excellent that they surpass even the strictest requirements of the medical implant industry. We are excited to bring our new, advanced medical ALD solutions to the market and help our customers keep spearheading their industries with safer, longer-lasting and user-friendly products," states Juhani Taskinen, Head of Medical Business Area of Picosun Group.

Picosun provides the most advanced AGILE ALD® (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating solutions for global industries. Picosun’s ALD solutions enable technological leap into the future, with turn-key production processes and unmatched, pioneering expertise in the field – dating back to the invention of the technology itself. Today, PICOSUN® ALD equipment are in daily manufacturing use in numerous leading industries around the world. Picosun is based in Finland, with subsidiaries in Germany, USA, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, China mainland and Taiwan, offices in India and France, and a world-wide sales and support network. Visit www.picosun.com.

(*)The results are part of ULIMPIA project, funded by PENTA under grant number PENTA-2017-Call2-16101-ULIMPIA.

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Health and social care to gain the most from 5G productivity and efficiency gains, which will add US$1.3trillion to global GDP by 2030

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New analysis of 5G – the next generation of mobile connectivity – estimates the impact of new and existing applications.

Over half the global economic impact (US$530bn) will be driven by the transformation of health and social care within the next ten years; a quarter by smart utilities driving savings in energy, water and waste management.

Large manufacturing-based economies are likely to gain the most, including the United States (USA), China and Japan, but gains are projected globally as 5G integrates as a critical part of societal infrastructure.

Transparency is critical to building trust with consumers and regulators 5G’s application.

LONDON, Feb. 8, 2021 — Productivity and efficiency gains enabled by 5G’s application will drive business, skills and service change worth US$1.3 trillion to global GDP by 2030.

In Powering Your Tomorrow, PwC quantifies for the first time, the economic impact of new and existing uses of 5G in utilities, health and social care, consumer, media, and financial services across eight economies with advanced rollout: Australia, China, Germany, India, Japan, South Korea, USA and the United Kingdom (UK).

More than a faster version of mobile connectivity on 4G, 5G’s speed, reliability, reduced energy usage and massive connectivity will be transformative for businesses and wider society, enabling ubiquitous access to super fast broadband. Used in combination with investments in artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT), 5G can be used as a platform to enable business and society to realise the full benefits of emerging technology advances.

Economic gains are projected across all economies assessed in the study, as 5G offers the potential to rethink business models, skills, products and services, with the gains accelerating beginning in 2025 as 5G-enabled applications become more widespread

Based on the study, the USA (US$484bn), China (US$220bn) and Japan (US$76bn) will experience the largest uplift as a result of 5G technology applications, due to the size of their economies and strong modern industrial production sectors.

At a regional level Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) is expected to benefit the most from manufacturing applications of 5G, due to the size of the manufacturing sectors. It demonstrates the potential for regional competitive advantage through approaches to the adoption and regulation of the technology.

Wilson Chow, Global Technology, Media and Telecommunications Industry Leader, PwC China, comments:
"These numbers quantify impact, but perhaps more important, our study reflects the value of 5G – new levels of connectivity and collaboration mean companies will be able to see, do and achieve more. It will open up new opportunities for growth and change as organisations rethink and reconfigure the way they operate in the post-pandemic world.

"With the pandemic accelerating digitalisation across all sectors, 5G will act as a further catalyst. It will emerge in this decade as a fundamental piece of our societal infrastructure and as a platform for driving the competitiveness of national economies, new business models, skills and industries."

Achieving better, faster outcomes in health and social care

Over half the global economic impact (US$530bn) will be driven by the transformation of health and social care experience for patients, providers and medical staff within the next ten years.

While the acceleration of telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic provided a glimpse of the future of healthcare, remote care is just one area in which 5G can enable both better health outcomes and cost savings.

5G’s applications include remote monitoring and consultations, real time in-hospital data sharing, improved doctor-patient communications and automation in hospitals to reduce health care costs.

Regional & Sector impacts

At a sector level, impacts vary for individual economies. The USA and Australia are projected to gain the most from financial services applications: India from smart utilities; China and Germany in manufacturing.  Other industries analysed in the study show the significant potential of new and existing applications over the next decade, driving changes in skills, jobs, consumer products and regulation:

  • SMART utilities management applications will support environmental targets to reduce carbon and waste through enabling combined smart meters and grids to deliver energy savings, and improving waste and water management through tracking of waste and water leakage (US$330bn).
  • Consumer and media applications include: over the top (OTT) gaming, real time advertising and customer services (US$254bn)
  • Manufacturing and heavy industry applications include: monitoring and reducing defects, increased autonomous vehicle use (US$134bn)
  • Financial services applications including reducing fraud and improving customer experiences (US$86bn)

Wilson Chow comments:
"5G is more than mobile connectivity. It puts a new lens on advancing productivity and rethinking entire business models for the future. Given the scale of potential and its impacts, every organisation will need a plan for 5G’s implementation within five years across technology and business strategies to maximise opportunities and prepare for how they integrate their technology and business strategies, and engage with customers, supply chain and regulators."

Policy & Trust
The study highlights that the reach of 5G’s technology potential will require businesses and government to consider new approaches to regulatory and consumer engagement – focusing on how the technology is used.

Wilson Chow comments:
"With any technology, policy engagement, transparency and public trust are critical factors. Whether it’s considering the use of self driving vehicles or telemedicine, how data is managed, infrastructure deployed, or how different sectors collaborate, business and government need to shit from focusing on regulating a technology, to promoting transparency in 5G’s application, building and sustaining public trust in its use and potential."

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PwC drew on expert insight and using economic modeling, to examine the impact of 5G’s use across five industries. The projections in this study represent the net economic impact of 5G technology, taking into account displacement effects such as some economic activities becoming obsolete and focusing on economic value added across value chains and throughout the economy, rather than only the revenues of 5G telecoms businesses. Further details on the methodology can be found here.

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2021 Japan Prize Laureates Announced

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TOKYO, Jan. 29, 2021 — The winners of the 2021 Japan Prize were announced on January 29 by the Japan Prize Foundation and its president, Hiroshi Komiyama. The newest laureates are Australian researcher Prof. Martin Andrew Green, honored for his work in the field of "Resources, Energy, the Environment, and Social Infrastructure," and U.S. researchers Prof. Bert Vogelstein and Dr. Robert A. Weinberg, joint winners for their work in the field of "Medical Science and Medicinal Science."

– In the field of Resources, Energy, the Environment, and Social Infrastructure

Prof. Martin Andrew Green:
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– In the field of Medical Science and Medicinal Science

Prof. Bert Vogelstein:
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Dr. Robert A. Weinberg:
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Prof. Green is being honored for his work in developing high-efficiency silicon photovoltaic devices, while Prof. Vogelstein and Dr. Weinberg are being honored for their pioneering contributions to the development of a multi-step carcinogenesis model, and to the model’s application and its impact on improving cancer treatment.

Approximately 14,000 prominent scientists and engineers from Japan and other countries were approached for nominations for this year’s Japan Prize, and they nominated 142 individuals in the field of Resources, Energy, the Environment, and Social Infrastructure, and 243 individuals in the field of Medical Science and Medicinal Science. This year’s Japan Prize laureates were selected from among those 385 nominations.

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Flipclutch Research: The wave of 5G+AR technology is coming, WIMI increases investment in AR product applications

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HONG KONG, Jan. 22, 2021 — The "first year of 5G" in 2020 has brought about a boom in VR and AR in the capital and the entire application market. According to the "VR/AR Industry Report for the First Half of 2020", AR (augmented reality) related financing in the first half of 2020 is more than three times higher than VR, reaching 5.51 billion yuan, and they mainly concentrated in AR hardware, underlying related technologies, and application layer.

AR stands for augmented reality, is a technology that calculates the position and angle of the camera image in real-time, and adds corresponding images, videos, and 3D models.In the future, the TV in the living room, the central control screen in the car, and even a thermometer and hygrometer will not need to be physically present. Instead, users can see it through AR glasses. When users can virtualize a giant screen in front of their eyes at any time, users will not need to worry about whether should buy a 5.4-inch or 6.7-inch phone.

In the process of AR popularization, 5G plays an important role. 5G+AR has become the new frontier of science and technology, and AR content applications developed around 5G have gradually increased. Meanwhile, they have been promoted to consumers, and have received positive feedback from the market.

Holographic AR is full of science fiction elements. In the future, with the application development of AR equipment and the assistance of 5G, the product introduction period of AR technology is bound to usher in rapid growth.

WIMI Hologram Cloudutilizes its strong technical capabilities and infrastructure to provide excellent products and services. WIMI’s core business is holographic AR technology for software engineering, media manufacturing services, as well as cloud and big data.

WIMI is a holographic cloud comprehensive technical solution provider. Its business covers multiple links of the Hologram AR technology, including Hologram computer visual AI synthesis, Hologram visual presentation, Hologram interactive software development, Hologram AR online and offline advertising, Hologram ARSDK payment, as well as 5G Hologram communication software development. WIMI’s commercial application scenarios are mainly concentrated on five professional fields, including home entertainment, light field theater, performing arts system, commercial publishing system, and advertising display system.

AR has a very large market. Digi-Capital predicts that by 2021, the global VR/AR market will reach 108 billion U.S. dollars. In the meantime, mobile AR will become the main driving force for the growth, and the AR market will reach 83 billion U.S. dollars.

As a holographic AR company listed on NASDAQ, WIMI Hologram Cloud is also committed to exploring the application fields of holographic AR. Moreover, it has a leading AR holographic application platform in China, which is currently mainly used in entertainment, advertising, education, and other industries. Besides, its hardware environment is relatively mature, which is very beneficial to the development of software and content in these fields.

With the continuous emergence of holographic products from various technology companies, WIMI is also constantly conducting research on cutting-edge holographic AR technology and disruptive technological innovation. It is reported that WIMI has officially announced the establishment of the "Holographic Academy of Science" and the launch of the "Scientist Funding Program" to focus on scientific research and support technological entrepreneurship.

The holographic technology of WIMI, in simple terms, is through AR holographic technology, allowing viewers to watch the true restoration of holographic characters or scenes with the naked eye. The simulation degree is as high as 98%, and the user experience can be described as breathtaking.

WIMI has established a comprehensive holographic AR content library. The format of holographic AR content covers from 3D models to holographic short videos. As of December 31, 2018, there are a total of 4654 ready-to-use AR holographic content, which can be used for WIMI’s holographic AR products and solutions, covering a wide range.In addition, WIMI’s content library is enriched with copyrighted content licensed from third parties. WIMI also cooperates with various content owners, including brand owners, film producers, and talent agents, to transform high-quality IP into AR.

WIMI is committed to providing content value-added services for the large entertainment industry based on visual technology, creating a large entertainment image ecosystem from the four aspects of "technology", "data", "marketing" and "layout", and empowering the content industry with artificial intelligence technology.

VR/AR is one of the most anticipated application scenarios in the 5G era. In response to the integration of the development of 5G and augmented reality, China issued the "Notice on Promoting the Accelerated Development of 5G", requiring the further promotion of 5G+VR/AR and other applications to promote new consumption. Driven by policies, it is expected that 5G+AR in China will develop faster, laying an important foundation for the accelerated growth of the augmented reality market.WIMI will also follow the trend of AR development and grasp these business opportunities brought by AR.

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TÜV Rheinland Technical Expert Dr. Christos Monokroussos Wins the “IEC 1906 Award”

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SHANGHAI, Jan. 22, 2021 — Recently, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) granted Dr. Christos Monokroussos, technical expert of Greater China Solar & Commercial Products and the head of the technical competence centres for Solar and R&D at TÜV Rheinland, the "IEC 1906 Award," recognizing the major contribution that he has made to furthering standardization in the field of electrotechnology.

Founded in 1906, the IEC is the world’s leading international electrotechnical standards organization, responsible for formulating international standards in the electrical and electronic engineering fields. Engaging in committee work helps members proactively master the entire process of related products from design, planning, and production to acceptance. As expert committee members, they not only need to understand the current technical standards, but also foresee their development trends.

The "IEC 1906 Award," as one of the three important IEC awards, was established by the IEC Executive Committee to commemorate the establishment of the IEC, and is used to commend technical experts from various countries who have made outstanding contributions to IEC international electrotechnical standards. It’s awarded once per year. The Chairs and Secretaries of the IEC technical committees deliver the nominee shortlist first, and then the technical officials of the IEC Central Office conduct a review and grant awards to winners.

Christos Monokroussos earned his doctorate degree in photovoltaics at the Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST), Loughborough University. He is currently engaged in R&D work in the characterization of solar cells and photovoltaic modules, and in quality management of measurement systems, standardization processes, and reliability of photovoltaic modules at TÜV Rheinland. Dr. Monokroussos is also the project leader for three standardization projects in WG 2 and WG 8 working groups for the Technical Committee 82 Solar Photovoltaic Energy Systems of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC/TC82). He won the IEC’s "Outstanding Contribution Award" in 2018.

Having been engaged in the field for almost 40 years, TÜV Rheinland has a team of experts with rich laboratory and project experience in photovoltaics. With its global laboratory network covering major solar centres in Germany, China, the US, India, Japan, the Middle East, and South America, it’s committed to providing customers with all-round, diversified, one-stop services to promote the sound and sustainable development of the photovoltaic industry.

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