ANREALAGE covers six dresses in up to 2,000 E Ink Prism scales each
The colour-changing garments shown at Paris Fashion Week use reflective, bistable e-paper that draws power only when it switches. How they are powered and driven was not disclosed.
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Wearables
Skin-worn electronics, stretchable circuits, medical patches and e-textiles — the body as the most demanding substrate electronics has ever printed on.
Meta puts micro-OLED in a 100-gram headset and moves the computer to a cable
VR Glasses pair dual 2412 by 2288 OLED-on-silicon panels with a 300-gram tethered puck, at $1,300 from spring 2027. Field of view drops sharply against Quest 3.
FDA clears Beta Bionics’ Mint, a tubeless insulin patch pump with a reusable part
The two-piece pump is worn for three days and works with Dexcom and Abbott sensors, but its full US launch is not planned until the first quarter of 2027.
Senphonix wins NSF grant to engineer the wireless core of its SleeveSense vitals sleeve
The start-up, working with the University of Arizona, is aiming for clinical testing from late 2026 and an FDA filing in 2027 for its wearable monitor.
Oura files to go public with $1.2bn of nine-month revenue as smart-ring rivals regroup
The filing shows 3.6 million rings sold in a year and about 5 million paying members, while Ultrahuman prepares to ship a redesigned Ring Pro in the US.
Defence start-up Smack raises $61m to put a flexible screen on soldiers’ forearms
The Series B funds Alpha, a wrist-worn display fed by Smack’s Omega AI software, which the company says is about a year from a working prototype.
FDA grants breakthrough status to Nutromics’ microneedle patch for real-time vancomycin monitoring
The DNA-sensor wearable is aimed at a US launch in 2027, but a pivotal study and FDA authorisation still stand between it and the ward.
Printed glucose biosensor patches close in on a sub-$3 disposable cost floor
Screen-printed enzymatic electrodes are pushing continuous glucose monitoring toward a per-patch cost that no longer requires an insurance code to justify.
Stretchable circuits move from lab demos to skin-worn products
Stretchable interconnects and island-bridge architectures are quietly appearing in shipping skin-worn devices — the bridge between printed electronics and medical-grade wearables.
E-textiles forecasts can't agree if the market is $29 billion — or $3 billion. We checked the sums
Six analyst houses, a ten-fold spread, and a lesson in how to read any electronics forecast. We compare the numbers and find the definitional fault lines.
The printed battery finally ships — in the one place thinness beats everything
Skin patches made printed batteries a commercial reality. Inside the ~28% CAGR flexible-battery market and the disposable medical devices pulling it forward.
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