Tomorrow is good: Why deep fake media doesn’t worry me
Yesterday a colleague showed me a deep fake clip ripped from Home Alone. Both the face and voice of the lead actor Kevin were replaced by that of Sylvester Stallone – ‘Home...
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Incooling and GIGABYTE to Develop a New Class of Two-Phase Liquid-Cooled Servers
A coalition from Eindhoven and Taipei – start-up Incooling and multinational GIGABYTE – is focusing on developing a new class of two-phased liquid-cooled servers. Both companies believe...
First ultrasound therapy worldwide with clinical approval for brain stimulation
Research is investing enormous efforts to find effective therapies for neurological diseases. Now a team of researchers at the Medical University of Vienna has developed an ultrasound therapy for...
Dutch universities are working on a brain-inspired system
Researchers from TU Eindhoven and TU Twente published a study in the Nature journal about the first building block for a new kind of self-learning system or computer which is inspired by the brain....
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Reconstructing Notre Dame with the help of 3D data from Germany
On April 15, 2019, the famous Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris went up in flames and was partially destroyed. Since then, various protective measures have been taken. As part of the reconstruction, the...
Not the computer, but craftsmanship brought innovation to the animated film
With the help of the American video streaming service Netflix, the Spaniard Sergio Pablos has managed to make the hand-drawn animation film a success again with an innovative technique. According to...
How Holland Innovative helps the high tech industry to monitor and improve their processes
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...
Start-up of the Day: emergency help at the push of a button
Attacks, assaults, rapes, and murders. Crimes that could potentially be prevented if only there were people that can come to the rescue. Unfortunately, victims are often unable to ask for help or...
Half a million euros for research into digital 3D scans of people
The recently opened Volumetric 3D Videostudio in the Eindhoven Effenaar will also get a research branch. In the project ‘Chronosphere’, creative content makers, research institutes and...
Scientists map out consequences of cyber attacks
According to experts, the current crisis in the Middle East is not going to lead to a large-scale international war on land any time soon. But there is a chance that a new form of strategic attack...
Start-up of the day: With OceanOps fewer shipping delays
OceanOps reduces delays in container transport. With a dynamic platform for route change, the brand-new company from Rotterdam enables forwarders and importers to keep their cargo under control and...
Start-up of the Day: Is Pandora Intelligence the new Dutch unicorn?
An American soldier who was released after a period of captivity by a terrorist organization is planning an attack on his own turf. This is the beginning of the first season of the TV series...
Tomorrow is Good: The professor and the hacker
It was the day before Christmas when the professor’s phone rang. The screen said “anonymous”, with a small a. That could only mean one thing. “Hacker!” said the...
Tomorrow is good: An ode to futility
In the calm period after Christmas I wanted to quietly catch up on my backlog of unanswered emails that had accumulated during a busy first semester. However, the servers at my university had been...
Start-up of the Day: Create the best possible digital experience
Thanks to a cloud you are able to access websites, apps and other online activities. You need data centers and a whole lot of power to keep all those services up and running. Of course, you can use...
How innovation works: “Humans must become a kind of God for robots”
Innovation Origins regularly speaks to innovation leaders, trendsetters who are high on the innovation ladder. In this series they offer look behind the scenes in their world. Today Carlo van...
Tomorrow is Good: why rationality doesn’t help prevent mistakes and failures
More and more often colleges and universities invite me to give a guest lecture or a seminar on the themes of mistakes, the culture of failure and constructive management of failure in companies....
Tomorrow is Good: Design Thinking and Ethics
If we want tomorrow to be any good, we’ve got to do improve it right now. The well-known American management professor Peter Drucker once said: “The best way to predict the future is to...
Start-up of the Day: Tubolito three times stronger than an ordinary bicycle inner tube
When it comes to the sport of cycling, every single ounce counts. That can, however, be at the expense of quality. The Viennese start-up Tubolito has designed an inner tube for bicycles that is both...
How innovation works: Welcome to the eSIM revolution
Michael Tagscherer has been Chief Technology Office (CTO) at the Munich-based security technology group Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) since July 2019. A newly created position. As a computer scientist and...
Wind tunnels passé? – “They’re still going to be built one hundred years from now”
Wind tunnels are widely used in science and in the sports world. Yet computer simulations that simulate wind electronically are also becoming more and more common. Are wind tunnels still advancing,...
Start-up of the Week: The definitive answer to food waste?
”Your sneak preview of the future” is the slogan of Innovation Origins, and that’s just what we will highlight with our Start-up of the Week column. Over the past few days, five start-ups of the day...
“No excuse for a sensor designer who ignores dark skin tones”
Philosopher Katleen Gabriëls recently published her book ‘Regels voor Robots’ (Rules for Robots) as part of her chair at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Last week Innovation Origins...
Start-up of the day: quick and easy 3D printing of food
The Spanish start-up Natural Machines offers state-of-the-art technology that allows you to make your favorite meals and food in a quick and easy way using a 3D printer. Their machine, Foodini, is a...
Surgeons soon able to print 3D implants during surgery
A surgeon will soon be able to print an implant, such as a new rib, in the operating room by themselves. This is possible thanks to a specialized 3D printer for medical implants. The Institute of...
