Flexible and printed electronics manufacturers made some interesting headway toward commercialization during 2017, with promising products either reaching the market or getting close.    Cartamundi – NFC-Enabled Game Cards The goal of the PING (Printed Intelligent NFC Game Cards and Packaging) Consortium is to enable commercially viable production of smart printed objects through RFID. Cartamundi, the world leader in playing cards, is working with imec, PragmatIC, Smartrac, TNO and Van Genechten Packaging to develop these thin, flexible integrated circuits. PING received the Innovation Product Award from the European Forum for Electronics Components and Systems (EFECS 2017). “With Cartamundi, we are working toward solutions with RFID and NFC, and together with we are making chips that will be embedded in game cards,” said Kris Myny, senior researcher for imec and the principal investigator of the project. “A customized reade