Why are toys so favorite?

People have a higher tolerance for toys, while other Artificial Intelligence (AI) does not. For example, the Autopilot system can’t be controlled in some cases. Google Translate can not become a good writer. The diagnostic efficiency of artificial intelligence is far lower than in hospitals. Smart toys are precisely an excellent opportunity for artificial intelligence to gain early market recognition. There is no competition between smart toys and high technology. We have strict requirements for high tech, but we are very tolerant of toys.

The current development of smart toys

1. Sphero’s new product of “Star Wars”: BB-8 (formerly R2D2), which create favorite smart toys in the world. You must learn to do your own promotion from other people’s characters and do marketing on other people’s platforms. Piggyback: hitchhiking on the back of the pig;

2. Evollve launched a robot that can continuously execute external program instructions, training programming thinking;

3. Anki, founded by Dr. Robotics, launched Cozmo on October 16 with face recognition and sharp intelligence to play games with people.

4. Hanson Robotics just announced a strategic partnership with Disney on October 14th;

5. Pepper officially launched in Taobao, has a strong ability to interact with people, priced at US$198,000.

Opportunity in China

Home robots don’t sound like they can’t be implemented because they don’t meet the needs of both parents and children. China has a strong manufacturing industry, and the United States needs it. For example, Evollve is a California design, made in China. China’s toy industry is developed, and there are almost all electronic products on the market in China. China’s electronics industry is very remarkable. The toy market is a precise application. For toys, the needs of children are bright and highly differentiated.

Who is the winner?

Although China’s toy manufacturing industry is robust, in the global market, Chinese toys have almost no brands. This is a huge business opportunity. If Chinese toy companies can use their strong manufacturing and promotion capabilities in the Chinese market, they can cooperate with high-tech companies to launch their brand products with high-tech advantages.
China’s old generation of artificial intelligence (AI) companies will support and expand smart toys, such as iFLYTEK and MI. The toy market can into film and entertainment industry actively explore the exchange and IP cooperation.

Opportunity: Toy companies, film and television entertainment companies, or China’s emerging artificial intelligence (AI) startups, need to get a pass to the Concept stock. Undoubtedly, Concept stock is stable. So the best way is to launch a great product of its artificial intelligence ( AI ) or a company that integrates with global artificial intelligence (AI) products.

Trap: Toy requirements a high expectation at a low cost. Need to master the basic rules of the toy industry: more moderate than expected costs, higher than expected expectation.

LiPol Battery Co. has made more and more lithium polymer batteries for smart toys because of lighter, higher energy density and high working voltage.

LiPo Battery for Marketable Wearable Products

Big brands still have a relatively large dominance in the world, especially the earliest launcher of the bracelet, Fitbit, and Jawbone is also a great brand in the field of bracelets. (Curved lithium ion polymer batteries are fully utilized in the bracelet market). The function of the bracelet is relatively monotonous, the entry threshold is not high, the market competition is fierce, and the user demand is not so strong.

Besides, as an electronic device on the wrist, the failure rate has remained high and requires a robust after-sales service guarantee. It is precise because Fitbit is unable to provide sufficient after-sales service guarantee in China, so the first-mover advantage was handed over to Mi.

Fitbit bracelet

Watch consumer market

The watch industry is also dominated by big brands, Apple’s Apple Watch, and Samsung’s smartwatches. The global sales of these two watches are still acceptable. But this is because the brand’s overall driving effect, rather than the strength of the watch itself, the function of the watch is still relatively monotonous, the market feedback is more general. (Small lithium ion polymer battery provides longer watch time).

Apple Watch

Outlook for the consumer market

Last year, Fitbit acquired the wearable payment technology platform of Coin, a well-known financial technology company in Silicon Valley, in the United States, intending to enter the mobile payment field. Apple Pay may also appear on Apple Watch.

Competition in the next consumer-grade wearable sector may occur on payments. The pressure from big brands and cottage brands will make entrepreneurs suffer a second attack, and consumer wearable products will be complicated.

The characteristics and current status of the professional market

Professional medical grade wearable products have great market potential and have numerous segments.

There is no competition between market segments, each market segment is large, and the health needs of consumers are just needed.

There are big companies in the field, but there are still a lot of startups involved.

Ordinary consumer wearable products cannot compete in the professional medical field.

Products in the medical field need to be certified by medical institutions, especially FDA certification, and there are specific barriers. (The medical field also requires lithium ion polymer battery related certifications UL, CE, IEC62133, UN38.3, MSDS).

AliveCor’s Mobile ECG product

Opportunities and recommendations

Professional medical grade wearables are rare in China, or a vast blue ocean.
The segmentation of the US medical wearables sector is already apparent. If Chinese companies can learn from their experience, find breakthroughs, or work with companies with advantages in the United States to expand their markets in China, there will be tremendous opportunities.

China’s wearable devices claim to have medical monitoring but still belong to the consumer level, not the therapeutic level.
There is a significant demand for mobile and remote health monitoring in the medical field, especially now that hospitals place particular emphasis on continuous patient care.
(This requires medical wearables to be equipped with lightweight, high-density lithium polymer batteries)

Innovators should take this opportunity and actively seek to work with medical experts in specific fields. On the contrary, medical experts can also actively cooperate with wearable manufacturers. The market prospect of this vast blue ocean is worth looking forward to.

Smaller medical devices will have a subversive impact on health management practices.

Medical devices are ubiquitous in our lives, but as a sub-area of ​​the pharmaceutical industry, its market is still relatively small, and it is not as important as drugs. It has neither a comprehensive technological breakthrough nor even a unified technology. The direction, every progress is only the doctor will pay attention. But all the growth is put together, but it will have a subversive impact on the health industry, that is, each of us manages our health.

At the level of the world, medical resources are scarce. To solve this problem, we have to do the following three things: let each person get sick less; get sick as soon as possible, and treat as quickly as possible; chronic diseases can be well managed. And medical devices can help people in these three areas. At the same time, various trends also have a large market for the future of medical devices.

In terms of communitization, relevant data shows that consumers who have been to retail clinics in the United States have grown from 10% in 2007 to 35% in 2015. In 2016, the number of retail clinics in the United States reached 3,000. The community and remonetization of this kind of health service have brought about a new trend, called “instant detection”. The full name of the word, Point-Of-Care Testing, referred to as POCT, is the monitoring, diagnosis, and treatment of the site where the disease or event occurs. The requires medical devices to be miniaturized, portable, simple to operate, and low in cost.

Currently, China is moving towards a similar model of grading, but it is just getting started. China has a large population base and certainly needs more community clinics like the American Snack Clinic. Therefore, in the future, smaller medical devices will have a lot of room to play.

In addition to the transformation of the medical system model, the development of other specialized medical institutions has also increased the demand for medical devices. At present, the areas where capital is more focused include specialized hospitals and small medical institutions, including medical beauty, rehabilitation, community medical care, and also require a large number of instant monitoring devices and plastic surgery and rehabilitation equipment.

From the perspective of a more extended demographic structure, China’s population aging has seen the first peak of the elderly population during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, and the proportion of the elderly population has increased from 13.3% to 16%. The means that the demand for health care for the elderly has increased dramatically. The existing hospital beds and nursing capacity have been challenging to meet the needs of the elderly, and the consequent rehabilitative care for the elderly has gradually shifted to hospitals and clinics in families and communities.

The trend of the above three demand sides will promote the development of intelligent, portable and miniaturized medical device products for the detection, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation care, resulting in the long-term rapid growth of medical devices.

There are many types of medical device subdivisions. In general, it can be divided into small in vitro diagnostics, smaller medical imaging instruments, genetic testing, rehabilitation, and high-end consumables, especially 3D printing. Here we introduce the field of application that is currently widely used and is in the rapid development phase: in vitro diagnostics.

80% of our clinical diagnostic information comes from in vitro diagnostics, which play an essential role in health assessment and disease diagnosis. Before the 1980s, laboratory testing was centralized, and all tests were performed in the laboratory before the results were returned to the patient. But now, the most common blood sugar test has been transferred from the laboratory to the immediate monitoring of patient care. We see that small medical devices have ample market space in this field. One of the markets is what we call “instant detection.” The precise definition of in vitro and immediate detection (IVD) refers to the acquisition of clinical diagnostic information by detecting blood and urine tissues and secretions in vitro. There are many ways to check IVD, which can be divided into the biochemical diagnosis, immunodiagnosis, molecular diagnosis, hematology, microbiology diagnosis, urine diagnosis, etc. Among them, biochemistry, immunity, and molecular are the most important in daily medical diagnosis.

The popularity of smaller medical devices reflects the new demands of the health and wellness industry, and the development of smaller medical devices will also change the face of the health industry. With the changes in population structure, the development of big data and Internet of Things technologies, more and smaller medical devices will enter community clinics and enter our lives. The above suggested are just some of the more clear applications. Smaller medical devices are an up-and-coming market. As investors, we look forward to finding many high-tech companies with growth potential in this field.

LiPol Battery provides smaller lithium polymer battery solutions for samller medical devices with custom dimensions, custom shape, custom capacity and more. If you need a smaller power supply, please feel free to contact us.

What’s graphene battery?

Graphene Battery is a new development prospect of lithium battery which we keep paying more attention the technology of graphene battery.

The advantages of graphene in lithium batteries

Graphene plays a role in enhancing the heat dissipation in the lithium cell, rather than adding graphene to the positive and negative electrodes of the lithium cell, so the graphene in this battery does not increase the charge and discharge rate, nor can it increase the energy density, nor enhance the conductivity. It is a lithium battery. For example, Huawei has produced a heat dissipation improved lithium battery. The graphene layer achieves the heat dissipation.

Why the lithium battery should enhance heat dissipation?

Is it to enhance heat dissipation when the mobile phone chip is fully loaded? No, what is the temperature of the mobile phone, and the full-load running time of the mobile phone chip accounts for less than 1% of the mobile phone’s use time. Mobile phones and other civilian electronic devices are typical applications at low temperatures, and ordinary lithium batteries do not require additional It can be improved. However, the temperature in some places is high. For example, the base station near the equator has a backup battery operating environment of 50°C. This temperature is on the verge of collapse for ordinary lithium batteries. In the past, only a more substantial capacity battery on the scalp could meet the requirements of the number of charge and discharge cycles. The effect of temperature on the battery is mainly to accelerate the evaporation of water in the electrolyte. In this Huawei battery, the water wholly removed from the electrolyte formula and the graphene heat dissipation layer used. The heat generated when the battery charged and discharged is more comfortable to export. Huawei gave a set of performance data, that is, the capacity after 2,000 cycles of charging and discharging at 60°C is still maintained at 70%, and the storage at an ambient temperature of 60°C for 200 days, the capacity loss is less than 13%.

Development Prospect of Graphene Battery

This data may not be what people in the lithium battery industry do not know how strong. If we put the general mobile phone battery at this ambient temperature, that is, 60℃, most of them will not work correctly. Because the lithium batteries of mobile phones are mostly ternary materials, the energy density is large, but they are not suitable for working at high temperatures. There is a lithium iron phosphate battery that can operate at high temperatures, but this rarely appears in mobile phone batteries. And the lithium iron phosphate battery is also a battery with a lot of cycles. For example, a lithium battery that can be recharged and discharged 2500 times, at average, will drop to 300 times at 60°C. Huawei can also maintain for 2000 times. Also, storage batteries at high temperatures will cause electrolyte loss. Generally, lithium iron phosphate placed at 60°C for seven months, and the capacity loss is 40%-50%. Not surprising, but Huawei only loses 13%.

Application：Due to the high conductivity, high strength, ultra-thin and thin characteristics, and the features of very high-performance improvement at high temperatures, The graphene batteries can be used not only in base stations, but also in uncrewed aerial vehicles, aerospace military industry, or new energy vehicles and other potential applications will also play an important role.

Wireless Headphone Market Analytics

The wireless headphone market is overgrowing when Apple company publish the new wireless headphone – AirPods. Tim Cook also said, AirPods is the best seller, and it’s subverted the market. More and more IT companies such as HUAWEI, MI, Microsoft, Amazon, OPPO, Vivo are planning to publish new products in 2019. In 2018, the sales quantity of all world was 46M, and the amount will be 129M in 2020.

The attention rate of wireless headphone is 51.7%, and the market of China is increasing. In 2015, the Bluetooth headphones took over 39%, but in 2017 the rate is increased to 56%.

The sales of wireless headphone closed to 20M in China. The best choice is the head-mounted headphone and in-ears ones. The GiK think that wireless headphones are more power on voice communication than the general headphones. The additional sensors (Gravity Acceleration Sensor) and the other components into the headphones and extend the experience and functions. The smart headphones break the limit of the speaker when more and more devices support voice communications. Smart headphones have more advantage in the moving situation of On-The-Go. It will be the next tide of smart hardware when long working time with powerful lithium-ion polymer battery. The critical point is the headphones should have more functions without phones.

The attention rate of head-mounted headphone met 44.3%, and the rate of in-ear headphone met 33.2% in 2018. What should we have to focus on is sports earphones.

The market for headphones is snowballing because the production technology is improving. The working time longer and longer supported by the high energy density of lithium-ion polymer battery. LiPol Battery Co., Ltd have provided lots of smaller lithium-ion polymer batteries for the branded headphones. You can check the following batteries.

Best Seller of LiPo Battery for Wireless Headphone

Flexible Lipo Battery Technology

More and more products have become flexible, and as an essential accessory, the lipo battery also needs to be flexible. We never stop improving the technology and production process on our flexible lipo battery from design to mass production.

In 2015, the flexible lipo battery market was still tiny with 50 million US dollars, but it is expected to reach the market of 617 million US dollars by 2020. The growth rate of flexible is always speedy. Because no matter what kind of electronic products, it can not bypass the lithium battery. Among the providers of flexible batteries, Samsung and LG have their plastic lipo battery parts.

Samsung SDI

Samsung’s flexible lipo battery is called Samsung SDI. It is now a foldable 210mAh lipo battery, which is mostly used in wearable devices. The thickness of the lipo battery itself can be 0.3mm thick and can be carried on the wrist of a person. Ten thousand times of bending and folding, and without any failure, so the reliability of this lipo battery is still very high.

A particularly significant advantage for companies like Samsung is that it has already achieved mass production of advanced technology. It is something that our industrial developers cannot ignore and must pay attention to Only advanced technology is useless. If you cannot achieve high-quality, stable mass production, advanced technology cannot be pushed to society.

LG Chem

LG has a product called LG Chem, which means LG Chemical. Its lipo battery is particularly impressive. It is a hexagonal lipo battery that can reach 2500 mAh. In other words, it can even power a mobile phone. It also has another lipo battery called a ribbon, which wraps the lipo battery in something like a shoelace and knots it. It can still be used. So you see, LG also has its characteristics.

Panasonic

It also has its lipo battery, and its battery power supply is not abundant, from 17.5mAh to 60mAh, which is still some distance away from Samsung, but there is no problem with wearable.

BrightVolt

BrightVolt was founded in Florida in 1998, it has received more than $80 million in financing. What done is a small lipo battery of 14-35mAh.

Imprint Energy

The critical point is to talk about Imprint Energy. It was founded in California in 2010 and has so far received $15 million in investment, marking it is not now from maturity. It is worth noting that this company was founded by a great Chinese scientist Christine Ho and is a graduate of Berkeley.

Each product has an R&D cycle of 5-8 years, and it has now passed six years. In 2015, it was rated as one of the 50 smartest companies in the world by MIT Technology Review. In 2016, the CEO was rated by the

MIT Technology Review as 35 outstanding talents under the age of 35 in the world. So although this company has not been able to mass-produce, it is not far from mass-production.

Blue Spark Technologies

Blue Spark was founded in Ohio in 2003, it has already invested more than 20 million USD. It is characterized by the technology obtained from daily use dry lipo battery manufacturers and then made into commercialization.

TempTraq products

One of the most accessible areas for flexible electronics is to stick it on children for continuous temperature monitoring. If the child attaches this device, it will continue to monitor the temperature of the child and send the report to your mobile app If you set an alarm function and your child has a fever in the middle of the night, the phone will wake you up. If the traditional enterprise is too traditional, if you want to incubate an innovative enterprise, the whole mechanism cannot be supported, so it is best to turn it into an external startup company. Blue Spark Technologies has chosen to do so. TempTraq can detect children’s body temperature.

Enfucell

It was founded in Finland in 2012 and now has more than 300,000 US dollars in crowdfunding. It has many technical indicators that are still very popular with everyone. You can also pay attention to it. From a global perspective, there are four major parts of the flexible electronic region, of which the display and the sensor are the leading ones, and the other two parts of the battery and the printed circuit board cooperate to form a market. There is a lot of room for development in the future, especially in the next year, there will be a lot of products that everyone can perceive, so it is very worthy of attention.