Keeping your distance with the help of light
How can light influence your behavior? This is what the IGNITE student team is conducting research into. The team shares the knowledge it has gained with the lighting industry.
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Light replaces electricity as an energy source for robots
A mini robot that swims through your bloodstream in order to administer medication. It may sound like science fiction for now, but it can easily become reality.
Light algorithm limits staring at a smartphone for a better night’s sleep
Students at the Dutch TU/e have developed a new app that uses algorithms to check if exposure to light is disrupting natural biorhythms, energy levels and and sleep patterns.
It looks like a lamppost, but Signify turned it into an intelligent communicator – New York is installing half a million of them
The systems supports noise and motion monitoring, gunshot detection, air quality, ice and snow detection, weather detection, traffic optimization, parking management, digital kiosks, and more
Researchers make invisible light visible for the first time
Near-field light has great potential for applications in particle manipulation, molecular detection and optical communication.
University of Twente is working on better lidar laser systems
Lidar systems are essential in the development of autonomously moving cars and, for example, robots that move independently. It is a technology in which laser […]
Plans for a Formula E night race in the Dutch City of Lights: Eindhoven
This May, the Formula 1 cars will race the Zandvoort circuit for the first time since 1985. Many Dutch people wonder if Max Verstappen could […]
Is Wifi a thing of the past thanks to internet via LED light?
If you say internet, we say wifi. But that is about to change. At least if it is up to Signify. Because in the future, […]
What’s in vacuum? – Research group is on the track of “nothingness”
Vacuum’s empty, isn’t it? Or is it not? At least not for quantum physicists. Because they assume that even here, particles and anti-particles fluctuate. So […]
Tomorrow is Good: Can we switch off the lights?
Light is the city of light; But not light like a feather. The light of this city; is because of a bulb! A world-famous poem […]
A light pilot that was put together with the citizens
Eindhoven wants to become a smart society. But how does that work? What’s going on in a society like that? Are there any good examples […]
GLOW: Blob the Bulb
BLOB the Bulb is one of the highlights of GLOW Eindhoven 2017. The building of the BLOB – or Binary Large OBject – is located in […]