Sjoerd Romme wrote a White Paper about the High Tech Campus Eindhoven. In the document, he exposes the DNA of the campus. We asked him about the campus, the choices that are made behind closed doors, and the rental prices. And we received honest answers: “Yes, they are high, but the campus is also...
The HighTechXL-team Ipos has partnered up with Olympic medalist Imke Schellekens Bartels. Bartels has been named world champion several times. The new brand ambassador of Ipos will help raise awareness for the product of Ipos. Ipos announced this during XL Day, the HightechXL’s grand finale on...
HighTechXL-team Sustonable has reached an agreement with an investor. Gathering a total of 350.000 euro which will allow them to release their product early 2018. They are also very close to get a further investment which will set their total to 600.000 euro through investments. This money will be...
HighTechXL has raised the bar to wanting to manage 1.000 teams by 2020. Guus Frericks has announced that at XL Day on Thursday. In an earlier interview, Frericks said they will manage a 165 teams in 2017. “After evaluating this, we saw that we were wrong. In fact, we will manage 181 teams in 2017....
Today is XL Day, the big finale of accelerator HighTechXL. All start-ups of the program and some of the alumni will present their demo’s, visions, apps and products on the stage of the Klokgebouw in Eindhoven. An exciting day, with loads of news. In this liveblog we will keep track of...
The coming winter, Ryanair will add 9 routes to their Eindhoven-airport base. Flights to Aarhus (Denmark), Edinburgh (Scotland), Milaan-Malpensa (Italy), Oradea (Romania), Praha (Czech Republic), Rabat (Marocco), Tanger (Marocco), Thessaloniki (Greece) and Valencia (Spain) will be added. On top of...
The University Racing Team (URE) has presented its new car in a news letter. The car -the URE12- is electrically powered and has been completely developed at the TU/e, by the team and partners. The URE-team is made up out of 50 TU/e-students and has taken a year to come up with a brand new car...
Philips is once again the biggest applier of patents in Europe. That became clear as the European Patent Office (EPO) published its annual report on Tuesday. In total, Philips was responsible for 2568 filed patents in 2016. In 2015, that number was slightly higher: 2680. The top three of companies...
In a hackathon on Friday the 3th of March in Natlab in Eindhoven, VPRO Medialab will look for innovative storytelling in literature and poetry. For the first time, the final presentations of the hackathon will be open for public. The Medialab organises a hackathon three times a year. Each time,...
This is a perfect answer to all of those funny bands that demand they only get the yellow M&Ms in their dressing room. There now is a machine that can sort M&Ms and Skittles by colour on its own. The M&Ms and Skittles Sorting Machine is a project by TU/e-student Willem Pennings....
On Thursday the 23d of February, the winner of the iCity Tender will be announced. The winner will receive 20.000 euro to develop a smart city solution for Eindhoven. The award is the final stage in the iCity Tender, an award written out by the city of Eindhoven, TU/e and VolkerWessels. The...
After Virtual and Augmented Reality, now there is Sensory Reality. SENSIKS, a Rosmalen based tech company has developed the Sensory Reality Pod. A cabin in which light-, sound, wind and scent-modules can be built in to give the person in the cabin the idea of being in another world: In a forest, a...
The TU/e has developed a technique that will make it possible to control the amount of medication that is let loose in a specific patients body. A DNA-computer that can determine the effectivity a medicine has with a patient. The research team has published an article on this in Nature...
On February the 13th it was the international day of epilepsy. And so, twelve students of different Brainport-schools visited the Kempenhaeghe expertise centre for epilepsy to contemplate the ways in which technology could help diagnose and treat epilepsy in the future. The Kempenhaeghe-institute...
Eindhoven-based ZENS will soon reveal its version of wireless charger for iPhone 7. De ZENS iPhone 7 Wireless Charging Case is the first iPhone 7 Wireless Charging Case that is both Qi and MFi certified globally. MFi certification means that the product is officially recognised by Apple as a way...
The SensUs-team of the TU/e (T.E.S.T.) will devote the academic year of 2017 to the development of a sensor that can sense heart failure by analysing blood plasma. The teams sensor should do so in a quicker fashion and in smaller volume than available sensors are able to do now. With that...
HighTechXL-alumni Mint Solutions has partnered with the Westfriesgasthuis. In February, the hospital will start to implement Mint Solutions MedEye in its cardiology department. According to Mint Solutions, MedEye’s maker , there is an error committed in 1 in 5 times medication is...
Machines are the most lucrative export product for the Netherlands according to the Central Agency for Statistics (CBS). The sector made up for almost 13 billion Euro in revenue in 2015. Eindhovens ASML is the world-leader in that branch, making up for a 7 billion Euro revenue on its own. The...
Philips Electronics has been awarded a 1 Million euro prize for developing an easy to use test that can diagnose patients and tell whether or not they need antibiotics. The test is the result of a joint healthcare project between Philips Electronics and P&M Venge AB from Sweden. It has been...
Uscoutfor just might be leading the pack when it comes to business development among HighTechXL-teams. About two years ago, the groundwork was laid down for what is now Uscoutfor. Then, about half a million was raised in investments. Now, they are looking to establish further growth, and aim for...
Philip de Goey has a vision. At the industry park of Cranendock nearby Budel-Dorplein a completely circular economy should arise. That means it will be self-sustainable in its energy, complete recycling of metals is the goal. That vision should be formed in Metalot, the initiative that should...
At E52 we have known this for a while now: Eindhoven matters when it comes to innovating in high-tech. RTL’s Bright TV has made an item about the importance of photonics. And in search of leading research on this topic, they have ended up in Eindhoven. You can watch the Bright TV report...
The fourth edition of the Slimmer Leven Challenge will start on Tuesday the 17th of February in Eindhoven. The Challenges organisation, in which some 200 students will compete, is looking for experts that can help guide the students in the competition. During the Slimmer Leven Challenge students...
Solliance at High Tech Campus Eindhoven will be the stage for an election debate on Energy Transition, the long-term change of energy-storage and production. The event will be broadcasted live on BNR News radio on the 6th of February During the debate, candidate Members of Parliament will discuss...
A pair of glasses which automatically turns to a darker shade when it sees too much of the sun, or one that sounds the alarm when the person wearing is in danger of falling asleep while driving. The 3d Printing Electronics Conference at High Tech Campus Eindhoven past Tuesday shed some interesting...