BRAINXCHANGE - Since the introduction of wearables, these devices have acted as a supplement to or extension of smartphones. However, with the likes of the Apple Watch and Fitbit – today’s most iconic wearables – being crappy versions of the smartphone, it is no surprise that wearables are viewed today as little more than nice-to-have gadgets.
BLOOMBERG - Honda Motor Co. said Wednesday it is talking to Waymo, the autonomous driving unit of Google parent Alphabet Inc., to try to strike a deal that would put its self-driving technology into some of the Japanese automaker’s cars.
UTILITY DIVE - Following on the heels of a record breaking year, energy storage in 2016 is on track to break through last year's record. The year-over-year increase will likely not be as dramatic as 2015's 243% increase over 2014, but several developments in 2016 show that the storage market is developing in ways that could clear a path for accelerated growth in future years.
ENVIRONMENTAL LEADER - It’s a good time to be in the water industry. Congress last week passed the Water Infrastructure Improvement Act, which authorizes nearly $10 billion in federal investments and represents an economic opportunity for water technology and infrastructure companies.
SENSORS MAGAZINE - Recently announced, AmazonGo is aiming to transform the ages-old brick-and-mortar retail experience. The official news broke via multiple channels, including a well-produced YouTube video showing shoppers entering a stylish grocery store. Central to the concept is the absence of any physical checkout system; shoppers check in upon arrival, and browse as they normally would.
REUTERS - Companies that make bug-killing chemicals and natural remedies are racing to take advantage of restrictions on neonics, a type of insecticide popular with farmers but blamed for harming bees and mayflies.
SMART TECHNOLOGY & LIVING - The phone in your pocket, powered by just a sliver of battery – it’s hard to imagine this discrete package of plastic, metal and glass is one small part of an energy revolution. It’s a revolution that’s transforming
how we generate, transmit and ultimately use power.
MICROGRID MEDIA - A Blockchain economic ecosystem is emerging, one comprised of ¨vertical solution providers, horizontal platform developers, a handful of core infrastructure enablers and enterprises who are developing products or contributing code to other projects."
ENVIRONMENTAL LEADER - Lux Research analyst Jerrold Wang told Environmental Leader that Ecor is a good example of a circular economy approach. “The use of waste material not only achieves sustainability but also enables low raw material cost or even negative cost,” he said.
RACONTEUR - Katrina Westerhof, research analyst at Lux Research Inc, picks up on another benefit of the aggregate capabilities of a smart grid. “We’re seeing more and more of the idea of a virtual power plant made up of residential batteries. Virtual power plants are something that we do see as near term.
LOS ANGELES TIMES - “I don’t see this impacting California one bit,” said Yuan-Sheng Yu, an analyst at Lux Research who wrote a report on the future of climate policy under Trump. “California has made clear it is going to move forward regardless of who is president, just as it did before Obama.”
THE ATLANTIC - According to a study by Lux Research, America’s annual carbon emissions, which would have dropped under a Clinton presidency, will rise sharply under Trump.
THE DENVER POST - “Despite Trump’s rallying cry for the coal industry, his plan to lift regulations on gas extraction will only make coal’s comeback even more difficult as fracking expands, keeping down gas prices and disadvantaging coal,” an analyst at Lux Research, noted.
THE WASHINGTON POST - The MIT Technology Review recently pointed to a new analysis from advisory firm Lux Research, which projected that the growth of renewables would flatline under a Trump administration that succeeded in doing away with the federal tax credits.
COMPUTER WORLD - Tyler Ogden, a solar analyst with Lux Research, projects 12 gigawatts (12 billion watts) of solar generating capacity in the U.S. by 2020.
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW - At the end of the day what Trump says and what is actually implemented are two completely different things,” says Yuan-Sheng Yu, an energy analyst with Lux Research.
IOT AGENDA - A key enabler for big data is big pipes — getting massive amounts of data to and from connected objects and machines.
CHEMICAL & ENGINEERING NEWS - Investors in the news synthetic biology firms are likely making a good bet, suggests Victor Oh, a research associate at Lux Research, which tracks the advanced materials sector.
IOT AGENDA - We at Lux Research recently attended the Blockchain World Congress conference in New York City. Bitcoin and implications for financial services were a major focus, but a lot of attention was dedicated to blockchain’s implications outside of the financial services realm, with multiple presentations and discussions around blockchain’s application in utilities, supply chain, health care and a wide range of other internet of things use cases.
WIRED.IT - Ma secondo le stime del centro di ricerca indipendente Lux Research, se Trump metterà in pratica le sue proposte, le emissioni dei gas serra degli Stati Uniti aumenteranno del 16% entro il 2024, rilasciando nell’atmosfera 3,4 miliardi di tonnellate di anidride carbonica in più (la stessa quantità emessa da un paese come l’Ucraina nello stesso periodo) rispetto agli impegni presi da Hillary Clinton nel corso della sua campagna elettorale.
THE GUARDIAN - US greenhouse gas emissions have started to taper off in recent years but a Trump presidency would see a resurgence, with an analysis by Lux Research finding that carbon dioxide output would be 16% higher than the current trajectory should the real estate magnate complete a second term.
FORBES - Lux Research is forecasting, according to Environmental Leader, that U.S. carbon emissions would be 16% greater under a Trump presidency than it would have been under Hillary Clinton. That equates to 3.4 billion tons more, the news site says.
ENVIRONMENTAL LEADER - Lux Research VP research Mark Bunger says its more of a labor union issue than a waste management issue. “The volume of trash to be disposed of will stay the same, but bins will not get overfull and messy areas will be cleaned up more quickly,” he told Environmental Leader. “I do think there is a labor union issue here, clearly, because it will upset some of the unwritten — and maybe written — rules about how the union works at Disney. But to be honest this is exactly the same kind of technology already deployed by facilities management companies in thousands of offices and factories around the world.”
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - The independent research firm Lux Research estimates that by 2024, Trump’s proposed policies would increase U.S. carbon emissions by 16 percent relative to the proposed policies of Hillary Clinton, who aimed to keep the Obama’s administration’s goal of reducing emissions about 30 percent relative to 2005 levels by 2025.
ASIAN SCIENTIST - Wang is the current director of the Singapore Membrane Technology Center (SMTC). Fane was the founding director of SMTC, and took on subsequent roles as SMTC’s co-director and director-mentor. Both scientists have been named by research and advisory firm Lux Research to be among the top 25 leading water researchers globally.
THE ATLANTIC - Lux Research, an energy consulting and research firm, projects that Trump’s policies as compared to Clinton’s would lead to 3.4 billion tons of additional carbon emissions by 2024.
RIGZONE - Methane leaks can occur in a number of areas, including pipelines. Finding small methane leaks and quickly addressing them is tricky, Kyle Landry, research associate for Lux Research’s Autonomous 2.0 Research team, said.
THE HUFFINGTON POST - “As independent analysts, we don’t endorse candidates, but the data and analysis clearly show that energy policy and the resulting emissions will go in very different directions under Clinton and Trump,” Yuan-Sheng Yu, an analyst at Lux
PV TECH - Whilst the US is destined for a tectonic shift in its energy landscape under either prospective president, new analysis from Lux Research suggests that Trump’s policies would leave emissions 16% higher after two terms than Clinton’s.
ENVIRONMENTAL LEADER - “The clear losers will be energy intensive industries such as industrial and manufacturing companies that consume large amounts of energy throughout their entire value chain,” Lux Research analyst Yuan-Sheng Yu told Environmental Leader.
DESIGNNEWS - Chris Robinson, research analyst at Lux Research, told Design News that battery shorts like this are common, but there could be more to these Samsung incidents. "A battery short is a common mode of failure, which results when electrical contact is made between the positive and negative electrodes.
MODERN POWER SYSTEMS - For the past century, the power sector has been fairly stable, composted of familiar structures, players and technologies.
FOOD INGREDIENTS 1ST - According to Lux Research, 'alternative proteins' such as soy, algae, pea, rice and canola, will account for up to a third of the protein market by 2054.
E&E PUBLISHING LLC -Tyler Ogden, an analyst at Lux Research, said Tesla's solar roof is potentially significant because of the company's size and SolarCity's reach. In theory, that could boost the integrated solar market, which has struggled so far.
THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE - Globally, the production capacity for renewable diesel has been on the rise — from 1.2 billion gallons a year in 2015 to a projected 1.9 billion gallons by 2018, according to a Lux Research report that monitors more than 1,800 biofuel facilities around the world.
POPULAR SCIENCE - The biopesticide industry’s future depends on finding new materials that work—and convincing more farmers to try them, quirks and all. A few months before my Toronto visit, I asked Sara Olson, a research analyst at Boston-based Lux Research who specializes in emerging agriculture technology, about the outlook for biopesticides.
COATINGS WORLD - Lux Research spoke with Osman Levent Eryilmaz, a co-author on the paper and co-discoverer of the coating’s functionality.
ENVIRONMENTAL LEADER - But is it feasible at scale? Lux Research analyst Yuan-Sheng Yu says it’s too early to say. “However, it should be noted that the involvement of GTI in this project would have one of the leading energy technology R&D institutions driving the technology behind this project,” he said.
ENERGY STORAGE NEWS - As analyst Cosmin Laslau of Lux Research blogged for our site at the time, peak reduction using Powerwalls could cover about 60% of the battery system’s cost in a strategy Laslau said was a clever way for the utility to stay relevant.
E&E NEWS - “Really, we see the outlook for fuel-cell vehicles is pretty grim,” said Chris Robinson, a research associate at Lux Research Inc. “It’s going to be really hard for a consumer to justify this.”
RELIABILITYWEB - According to a recent Lux Research survey of more than 120 operational leaders, organizations like Kaeser Compressors may see more cultural pushback than organizations like Caterpillar.
OPTICS.ORG - Earlier this year the Lux Research analyst Tyler Ogden predicted that if stability and cost concerns can be overcome, commercial versions of perovskite cells could begin to appear by 2019.
FOOD LOGISTICS - Early intelligent containers provided asset visibility and were largely designed to prevent theft and record the opening of containers, notes Mark Bünger, vice president at Lux Research Inc. The ability to monitor temperature, humidity and vibration has existed for about a decade, Bünger says, but it has been too expensive to deploy.
FARMERS GUARDIAN - Lux Research of Boston, Massachusetts, said while cost remained a barrier, uptake was increasing. This was a view shared by Sara Olson, analyst and lead author of Planting the Seeds of a Robot Revolution: How Autonomous Systems Are Integrating into Precision Agriculture
ENVIRONMENTAL LEADER - Lux Research analyst Yuan-Sheng Yu says Global Thermostat has been on the research firm’s radar for the past few years.
SAN ANTONIO BUSINESS JOURNAL - Lux Research projected the autonomous car industry will be worth about $87 billion by 2030, which has incentivized several Silicon Valley-based tech giants and established car makers to race into development and production.
IEEE SPECTRUM - “What was remarkable here was that this was the world’s leading company for batteries and for consumer electronics,” says Cosmin Laslau, an electrochemistry expert and technology analyst for Lux Research. “It doesn’t get much more high profile than this.”
ROBOTICS BUSINESS REVIEW - Together with our distinguished guests, Frank Tobe , publisher of The Robot Report, and Sara Olson, lead at the Agro Innovation Intelligence practice at Lux Research, our webcast will move through these five trends to get a good look at agribotics and its marketplace, along with digital farming ‘s role in averting any future food crisis.
REUTERS - Tim Grejtak, an analyst at Lux Research, said there are dozens of startups working on the issue, but the scientific problems were hard to solve and would take time.
PRINTED ELECTRONICS NOW - Recently, the two leading flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display manufacturers, Samsung and LG, were reported to introduce atomic layer deposition (ALD) technology in the barrier film manufacturing process.
REUTERS - Globally, meat and seafood consumption amounted to 463 million tonnes in 2014, dwarfing 10 million tonnes of alternatives such as soy-based meat replacements, according to Lux Research.
LOS ANGELES TIMES - For Tyson Foods, the move is a fast way into a rapidly growing alternative-foods segment, which could account for as much as a third of worldwide protein consumption by mid-century with a market value of as much as $108 billion, according to Lux Research.
ENVIRONMENTAL LEADER - Victor Oh, who leads Lux Research’s biobased materials and chemicals research, says two major drivers — the government and the consumer — are driving biobased product growth.
