META and the Australian Sports Technologies Network (ASTN) have launched the META Sports Advanced Manufacturing Hub to promote innovation in the sports technology industry. The hub will focus on fostering innovation in technologies such as wearable devices, smart apparel, equipment, medical technologies and health products. [ + ]

Engineers have been testing electronic systems based on new materials that are both flexible and switchable - that is, capable of toggling between two electrical states: on-off, one-zero, the binary commands that can program all things digital. [ + ]

The world's 14 billion online electronic devices, such as set-top boxes, modems, printers and game consoles, waste around US$80 billion each year because of inefficient technology, according to the International Energy Agency. [ + ]

Binghampton University researchers have developed a new method for manufacturing amorphous indium gallium zinc oxide (a-IGZO), a ceramic that looks like glass and can behave like metal, or even like silicon. [ + ]

Scientists at USC have developed a water-based organic battery that is long lasting and built from cheap, eco-friendly components. [ + ]

Researchers have developed a flexible, wearable polymer sensor that can directly measure the degree and occurrence of goose bumps, technically known as piloerection, on the skin. [ + ]

The more cores - or processing units - a computer chip has, the bigger the problem of communication between cores becomes. [ + ]

Mitsubishi Electric Australia's technology has been installed at iFLY Downunder, an indoor skydiving facility which opened publicly in April this year. [ + ]

Mouser has updated its sensor technology site to provide learning resources and new information on different types of sensors available from the company's suppliers, as well as the applications they are used in. [ + ]

Researchers have discovered rare materials known as multiferroics that possess both controllable magnetic and electric polarisation properties at near-room temperatures. [ + ]

ElectroneX, the annual electronics design and assembly expo, returns to Sydney on 10-11 September this year at the Australian Technology Park. [ + ]

The power transistor market is expected to climb by 8% in 2014 and reach a new record high in 2015, according to research firm IC Insights. [ + ]

The ongoing penetration of OLED displays in mobile phones and wearables, and renewed prospects for the OLED lighting market will catapult the OLED materials market from around $900 million in 2014 to $3.7 billion in 2019. [ + ]

A new energy-efficient hybrid circuit could soon replace silicon as the traditional transistor material used in electronic chips. [ + ]

Nichia Corporation has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in Australia seeking an injunction to restrain Arrow Electronics from infringing Nichia's patent for LED products. [ + ]