Twenty years ago, entrepreneur Simen Schimmel started with greeting cards, flowers and chocolate. Together with partner Johan van Vulpen, he founded Greetz: a huge success within the country. With his brand-new start-up Transferz, he is now stepping outside the borders,…
Ten international startups will present their seaweed-based food and packaging innovations during the Seaweed Innovation Event on June 8th (World Oceans Day) at Scheveningen Beach, The Netherlands. The pitch event is part of the first edition of North Sea Seaweed,…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has expressed concerns about the potential impact of upcoming European Union (EU) AI regulations on the company. The EU’s proposed AI Act is the first global attempt to govern AI, requiring companies to disclose copyrighted material…
The massive size of datasets and the number of calculations required to train Machine Learning algorithms result in a massive cloud-server workload with a significant carbon footprint. The European SustainML project meant to devise an innovative development framework that will…
A flying boat powered by hydrogen sounds exciting, and it is. Hydro Motion, a TU Delft student team, unveiled its brand-new craft this month. The students chose a flying one. Not only is this very impressive, but it is also…
A groundbreaking digital bridge has successfully restored communication between the brain and spinal cord, allowing a 38-year-old man with spinal cord injury to walk naturally. Swiss neuroscientists developed the wireless brain-spine interface. The technology, called WIMAGINE, records signals from the…
Scientists at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, have made a groundbreaking discovery with their “Air-gen” device, which generates electricity from ambient air humidity. The device works with materials containing holes less than 100 nanometers in diameter, allowing water droplets to…
If you regularly check our European Energy Index, you probably notice that some of the greenest countries are the five Scandinavian ones. How do they produce energy in a (mostly) green way? We looked at 2021 data from Eurostat, the…
Factorial Energy has achieved a significant milestone by earning the UN 38.3 safety certification for its 100Ah lithium-metal solid-state battery, making it the first company to receive this certification for a Li-metal solid-state battery of this size. The UN 38.3…
As of June 1, Aafke Eppinga is editor-in-chief of Innovation Origins. She succeeds Arjan Paans, who passed away earlier this year. Eppinga (29) has been active for several years in various roles for our newsroom but will now have final…