Mixed team relay makes for a spectacular triathlon
Hours of sweat and struggle (mainly against yourself) – that is the image of the triathlon. In this increasingly popular sport, there are several alternatives nowadays to the original...
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Author: Corine Spaans
Gerard & Anton Award-winner Hable: types superfast braille on your smartphone
The Gerard & Anton Awards have been presented again! So it’s high time we took a closer look at the winners and what we can expect from these start-ups in the coming years. Today: Hable....
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Gerard & Anton Award winner Mentech Innovation: Gives a voice to emotions
The Gerard & Anton Awards have been presented again! So it’s high time to take a closer look at the winners and what we can expect from these start-ups in the coming years. Today: Mentech...
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Start-up of the day: Virtual Breeding Ground for Sports Innovation
Arno Hermans, together with Victor Beerkens and others, devised an accelerator programme especially for sports start-ups, under the name Sport eXperience. That was at the end of 2015. Hermans said...
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Discover the manufacturing industry of the Brabantse Kempen
A High Tech Ontdekkingsroute as the headliner of the Dutch Technology Week takes you to all the High Tech Hotspots in the region. Companies from the Brabantse Kempen will represent themselves at the...
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Vitality Accelerator Program: accelerating ‘more activity’ to the market
“A lot of today’s technology makes us incredibly lazy.” According to John van de Laar, project manager from the Sport & Technology cluster, one of the sixteen parties in the Vitality...
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Dutch startup ATO-GEAR works together with adidas towards running smarter
The startup ATO-Gear has been working together with the sports brand adidas since last month. In shops selected by adidas, runners can test the brand’s new running shoe with the smart insole,...
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A kick off for entrepreneurial students
How do you protect your ideas? At first sight, a boring subject, but an important one for entrepreneurial students, says Julie Moens, a student at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and...
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Vitality from the Pitch Stop to the Living Lab
Sustainable changes in a district, to get people moving. The Vitality Living Lab, a project in which sixteen regional parties participate, aims to achieve this in four years’ time. But it is...
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Making an impact and leaving a better world with bio-based oil
Young chemistry companies take part in the Gouden KIEM competition organised by the research organisation NWO and Holland Chemistry. The winner will receive 25.000 euro prize money. This year all...
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“Our mission is: affordable water for everyone”
Young chemistry companies take part in the Gouden KIEM competition organised by the research organisation NWO and Holland Chemistry. The winner will receive 25.000 euro prize money. This year all...
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EFFECT Photonics is preparing the future’s internet
EFFECT Photonics, located in the Videolab at Strijp-S in Eindhoven, announced earlier this week that it had completed a new financing round. Reason for an interview about the current status and...
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FUTURE MORE: DDW Hidden Gem #6
The Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven is the largest design festival in Northern Europe. Every year we pick nine designers that we think are this year’s hidden gems. You can read their stories...
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Marathon Eindhoven towards self-management for runners
He never thought of it himself, but Ed Albers is project manager innovation for Marathon Eindhoven and he does so as a volunteer. The first thing he did was to structure the activities surrounding...
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Foundation We Are: DDW hidden gem #1
The Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven is the largest design festival in Northern Europe. Every year we pick nine designers that we think are this year’s hidden gems. You can read their stories...
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Vitality is more than physical
Sport and innovation often refer to technologies, such as sensors that measure your heart rate or rhythm. Intended not only to improve sports performance but also to get more people moving. During...
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Technology enables remote coaching
Sport and innovation often refer to technologies, such as sensors that measure your heart rate or rhythm. Intended not only to improve sports performance but also to get more people moving. During...
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With sport and innovation towards more vitality and performance
Sport and innovation often refer to technologies, such as sensors that measure your heart rate or rhythm. Intended not only to improve sports performance but also to get more people moving. During...
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“Photonics is on the eve of something big” – and SMART Photonics wants to give direction to that development
This is Photonics Application Week. Reason enough to take a good look at what that photonics promise really means. Today part 3: an interview with founder Richard Visser of Smart Photonics. Here are...
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Design Marathon: generating ideas for the most innovative marathon in the world
A marathon is a marathon, it is 42,195 km long, there are a start and a finish, a course and runners. Seems very simple but there is a lot to innovate. At least that’s what Edgar de Veer, organizer...
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Fifteenth National Sport and Innovation Congress at the High Tech Campus
Sport and innovation get a lot of attention nowadays. From the national government, there is a knowledge and innovation agenda sports 2015 – 2020, and a programme Sportinnovator with field...
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Arion collects desired crowdfunding amount within 24 hours
ATO-Gear is ready to produce more Arions, the smart running insole. At least if the startup finds enough investors, co-founder Andrew Statham says. In order to attract new investors quickly, Statham...
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Descending aerodynamically in the Tour de France
Fervent cycling enthusiast and professor at the TU/e and the KU Leuven, Bert Blocken, is fascinated by the wind and what that and air pressure do to the riders. After the spectacular way in which...
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Get to know your city better, walk a treasure hunt
Playing more outdoors, in the woods but also in the city. Telling stories about nature but also about industrial heritage. In a way that makes you want to go hiking, or better: play outside....
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Cycling for the most vital square kilometer in the Netherlands
“We actually wanted to organize just a tour from the High Tech Campus, but it got bigger and bigger.” Roel Voorwald, founder of the Corporate Vitality and Campus Sports & Health Club,...
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