UPDATE april 2: Today, we repeat yesterday´s program, with an introduction of IOtv and the first digital edition of Drinks, Pitches & Demos! UPDATE: Our first show is over, and we already have a lot of areas for improvement we can work on. For example, halfway through the live stream to...
Oopsie Heroes, a children’s product developed by Eindhoven based wearable technology company LifeSense Group, is now 100% reimbursed by Dutch health insurers VGZ and CZ, possibly followed by other insurers. With its product, LifeSense Group hopes to “remove the stigma associated with...
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A world premiere for Erasmus MC and Utrecht University. Researchers from the two universities have discovered an antibody against COVID-19. The scientific paper from the group of ten scientists is now ready for peer reviews from the leading professional journal Nature. The Rotterdam university...
They call it “life’s most essential skill – the ability to switch off and relax, where and when you want”. We featured them as ‘start-up of the Day’ earlier this year. Now, the makers of AlphaBeats, an app that guides your brain into ‘alpha mode’ while listening to...
Data scientists from Eindhoven, The Netherlands, have succeeded in predicting the number of new coronavirus infections and deaths that will occur within the next few days. They do this by applying population growth models to worldwide data on COVID-19. For the four countries with the highest...
The high tech and MedTech industry is responsible for a large part of our economic growth, and therefore of our prosperity. It is now well known that this hardware-dominated world cannot do without software expertise, but good process control, reliability and project management are at least as...
The high tech and medical industry is responsible for a large part of our economic growth, and therefore of our prosperity. It is now well known that this hardware-dominated world cannot do without software expertise, but good process control, reliability and project management are at least as...
Clean air, good facilities and low crime rates are among the benefits that make Copenhagen and Bern the most liveable cities in the world for European expats. Dutch and Swiss cities dominate the list with 4 entries each. Canada once again shines as the most liveable non-European country, according...
Through a partnership with Scroll, Innovation Origins (IO) wants to increase its impact in the United States. The English-language website of IO (which operates in addition to Dutch and German versions) has already been able to gain a strongly growing interest from the U.S. in recent months;...
The sea-level is rising, year after year; up to an expected rise of up to 10 metres in the coming centuries. So how to protect the people living in the low countries against the consequences? Of course, every single government could decide to build its own dams, dykes and walls, but what if you...
The high tech and medical industry is responsible for a large part of our economic growth, and therefore of our prosperity. It is now well known that this hardware-dominated world cannot do without software expertise, but good process control, reliability and project management are at least as...
The high tech and medical industry is responsible for a large part of our economic growth, and therefore of our prosperity. It is now well known that this hardware-dominated world cannot do without software expertise, but good process control, reliability and project management are at least as...
The high tech and medical industry is responsible for a large part of our economic growth, and therefore of our prosperity. It is now well known that this hardware-dominated world cannot do without software expertise, but good process control, reliability and project management are at least as...
Research organisation TNO and car-sharing platform Amber will start up a feasibility study together into the optimal use of electric cars. By collecting battery data from the Amber fleet, both parties want to find out if a fleet manager can organise the sharing schedule in such a way that battery...
There will be a new version of the Tech Xperience Week, which was conceived in 2018. This time with more candidates (not ten but twenty), a stricter selection and several ‘challenges’. The goal, however, remains the same: to grow ambassadors who tell the story of Brainport Eindhoven...
The high tech and medical industry is responsible for a large part of our economic growth, and therefore of our prosperity. It is now well known that this hardware-dominated world cannot do without software expertise, but good process control, reliability and project management are at least as...
As a private company led by former minister Wouter Bos, Invest-NL will provide financing to companies that will make the Netherlands more sustainable and more innovative. With a share capital of 1.7 billion euros, Invest-NL’s focus at launch is on the energy transition and on innovative,...
The high tech and medical industry is responsible for a large part of our economic growth, and therefore of our prosperity. It is now well known that this hardware-dominated world cannot do without software expertise, but good process control, reliability and project management are at least as...
The UK’s first full-size autonomous bus maneuvered around real-life road features including a cyclist on its first public demonstration, last week in Birmingham. The vehicle, which uses sensors including radar, lasers, cameras and ultrasound to detect its surroundings, independently negotiated...
The realization of an artificial womb has come one step closer, thanks to a new €2.9 million grant from the EU program Horizon 2020 for researchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology. The goal of the artificial womb is to increase the chances of survival for extremely premature babies...
A study by TRL (The Future of Transport) considered the scenario of traditional and autonomous vehicles coexisting, and revealed that 22% of collisions could be avoided if we supposed that one of the vehicles was replaced by a level 4 automated vehicle. This type of vehicle is controlled for the...
Houses, bridges and even organs. Using a 3D printer, you can make all of it. The market for 3D printing products and technologies will expand to over 22 billion euros by 2030. According to figures from the PWC consultancy firm, the next few years will see growth in aerospace, medical technology...
For the first time, researchers at KU Leuven were able to perform tests on human brains in a specific brain area that makes it possible to recognise objects. Patients who had to undergo surgery on the brain as part of another treatment were given microelectrodes. This research method is unique,...
Just 9 months after the presentation of the first record-breaking flexible solar cell, USA based MiaSolé Hi-Tech Corp and Eindhoven based Solliance Solar Research established a new world record power conversion efficiency of 23% on a flexible solar cell. The solar cell combines two thin-film solar...
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