Video Top 10 emerging technologies (part 1)
World Economic Forum (WEF) asked a group of international technology experts to identify this year’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies. After soliciting nominations from additional experts around the...
Category: Health
Wireless digital stethoscopes for parents of flu-stricken babies on the market this year
This year, the Polish start-up StethoMe is launching a wireless, digital stethoscope that consumers can use at home in order to listen to their lungs and heart. The company has been sponsored with...
Personalize team sports via 24-hour monitoring
This week, the European Hockey Championships will be held in Antwerp. Hockey is a sport in which the Netherlands traditionally does well. However, competition has grown over the years and that means...
Start-Up of the Week: Play the piano and say bye bye to Parkinson’s?
”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...
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Start-up of the day: helping the brain via music
Music is one of the oldest art forms known by humankind. While it might be difficult, maybe impossible, to know how prehistoric music sounded, we do know it was around. Throughout history, it has...
Lowlands Science: Suffering pain in the name of science
Pain and stress, not the first association you have when it comes to festivals. Okay, admittedly finding a good place for your tent when you arrive can be quite stressful. Or that one beer too many...
Top 10 Emerging Technologies (5): Smarter Fertilizers and Precision Farming
World Economic Forum (WEF) asked a group of international technology experts to identify this year’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies. After soliciting nominations from additional experts around the...
Delft students create exoskeletons that allow spinal cord injury patients to step aside
Exoskeletons are there to help people with partial paralysis walk. They are technological tours de force, but to date, they have only provided limited movement possibilities: forwards or backwards....
Smart toilet offers dietary advice to Lowlands festival-goers
We all visit the bathroom. But what does such a trip say about our health? Imec Nederland is trying to find out during the Lowlands music festival by using toilets full of sensors. During a visit to...
Top 10 Emerging Technologies (4): Disordered Proteins as Drug Targets
World Economic Forum (WEF) asked a group of international technology experts to identify this year’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies. After soliciting nominations from additional experts around the...
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Protective cycling gear: useful, but not the answer to every hazard
Was the death of cyclist Bjorg Lambrecht, last week after a crash during the Tour of Poland, a stupid accident? Should the course have been made safer? Or is there something structurally wrong with...
Start-Up of the Month: Hands-free wheelchair mobility
Nobody sits in a wheelchair for fun, so if you’re not able to cover distances using your own limbs, that’s quite a challenge. It is even more annoying when you also need both arms in...
Smart surfaces which make robots sweat and let the body absorb medical fluids
Danqing Liu, assistant professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry of TU Eindhoven, is receiving more than 400,000 euros in order to develop smart surfaces that can secrete...
Best read: how a radioactive cloud from 2017 is a still a source of concern
Most of the clicks on Innovation Origins this week went to the Start-up of the Month competition, where five European start-ups competed for this coveted title. This is logical, because next year...
Start-up of the day: looking out for (hu)man’s best friend
A dog is our best friend, always by our side taking care of us. Now we can take care of them in a way that could extend their lives by up to two years. Czech start-up Actijoy offers the technology...
Raising awareness of age discrimination
Perceptions regarding opportunities in old age are culturally embedded, says Americanist and cultural scientist Ulla Kriebernegg. She criticizes the predominantly negative images of old age and...
Raising awareness of age discrimination
Perceptions regarding opportunities in old age are culturally embedded, says Americanist and cultural scientist Ulla Kriebernegg. She criticizes the predominantly negative images of old age and...
Five magical medical channels on YouTube
Innovation is taking place in all kinds of sectors, some of which affect more people than others. Yet no one can avoid this sector as we all have a body that should ideally be kept in tip-top...
An app that makes medical reports easier to understand
The aim of healthcare is to keep people healthy. The Viennese health tech start-up Medicus AI wants to support this goal – with an AI-based platform that presents medical findings in an easily...
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...
Start-up of the week: Hands free wheelchair mobility
”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...
Tomorrow is Good (podcast): Quantum-like computing and Arctic data centers
It’s 40 degrees Celsius, and I’m sitting outside an awesome coffee-bar in Scheveningen (The Hague) with my long-time friend Deepak Kaura, talking about innovation and recording my next episode...
Tooth regeneration could soon become reality
Who knows: Maybe we can do without implants in the future? Researchers at the TU Berlin are currently working on the development of third generation teeth. The team led by Dr. Roland Lauster,...
Start-up of the day Qwiek: making healthcare more enjoyable
A projection on the wall, whether or not supported by music – this is what helps the elderly in a care facility become more relaxed or more active. And this is just one of the healthcare...
Previously unexplained circumstances re radioactive cloud uncovered
UPDATE: Lars Roobol of RIVM in Bilthoven pointed out to us that the incident was already known immediately after it occurred . At the beginning of 2018 the Volkskrant published this article about...
