Explorer is a dynamic service. We add and remove technologies to reflect their changing importance and impact on the research and business environments. In our monthly Viewpoints, we tell our clients about developments that we think are commercially significant. We update the Technology Maps to reflect change.

Currently Monitored Technologies

• 3D Printing
• Artificial Intelligence
• Autonomous Vehicles
• Big Data
• Biocatalysis
• Biomaterials
• Biopolymers
• Biosensors
• Connected Homes
• Electronic Displays
• Energy Storage
• Engineering Polymers
• Fuel Cells
• Human Augmentation
• Internet of Things
• Membrane Separation
• Mobile Communications
• Nanobiotechnology
• Nanoelectronics
• Nanomaterials
• Novel Ceramic/Metallic Materials
• Organic Electronics
• Photovoltaics
• Polymer-Matrix Composites
• Renewable Energy Technologies
• Robotics
• Smart and Networked Sensors
• Smart Materials
• User Interfaces

Discontinued Technologies

Explorer adds and removes technology areas according to both clients' interest and the commercial status of technologies. Discontinued technologies are areas that the Explorer service once covered but whose importance and impact on the business environment have changed such that they no longer lend themselves to Explorer coverage as stand-alone topics. Explorer analysts continue to watch these subjects to identify any new opportunities or technology developments that might arise, and they report any such developments in other related Explorer technology areas.

Explorer offers 30-day Web access to the publications archives of these technologies. If you would like access to these documents, please contact us to discuss pricing and details.

Discontinued Technology Area	Date of Last Publication
Advanced Silicon Microelectronics/ULSI	June 2009
Collaboration Tools	September 2020
Diamond Thin Films	December 2003
Fiber-Optic Communications	December 2003
Fiber-Optic Sensors	May 2007
Genomics	June 2009
High-Definition Imaging Systems	November 2001
High-Performance Computing	July 2002
Internet Commerce	November 2006
Machine-Vision Systems	November 2001
MEMS/Micromachining	September 2019
Nanotechnology *	August 2004
Neural Networks	October 2004
Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation	December 2000
Optoelectronics/Photonics	November 2015
Portable Electronic Devices	September 2020
Rapid Prototyping	July 2002
Speech Interfaces	October 2004
Storage Technologies	October 2004
Structural Adhesives	November 2004
Virtual Worlds	July 2014
Web Services	November 2006
* Explorer no longer covers Nanotechnology as a single area, but split it into three more focused areas: Nanobiotechnology, Nanoelectronics, and Nanomaterials.