In the start-up Wastics, a team with proven expertise in waste and resource management has come together. Markus Himmelfreundpointner and Stefan Schott laid the foundation. One works in his own waste management company and the other was responsible for materials…
“Hydrogen is going to play a crucial role in the energy transition, for example, in industry and mobility,” says Gianluca Pauletto, CEO and co-founder of Sypox. The start-up – with its headquarters in Munich – has also recently set up…
Women over 50 face it every two years: Breast cancer screening by way of a mammogram. It is absolutely necessary, but at the same time a painful nightmarish chore for many. It ought to be possible to do this differently,…
Whenever we are in conversation with someone, we usually like it when that person looks at us. This creates an emotional connection and fosters empathy. Researchers at Cornell University in New York have even shown that a feeling of connection…
It’s all about capturing CO2 from the air, and the ambition is to deliver gigaton capacity in 2050. The second step toward that goal has just been taken: after opening Orca last year, Climeworks has started building Mammoth. This direct…
ImmunoWars is a card game that deals with the battle between immune systems and diseases. In other words, you can eliminate your friends by attacking them with ebola, salmonella or cholera, to name but a few. The start-up wants to…
Many business owners in the construction sector are still apprehensive about purchasing ‘smart’ machines. A survey made public last month shows that only about half of construction companies use smart applications. They offer advantages and disadvantages, contractors tell us when…
In the past century, Dutch newspapers often wrote about artificial intelligence in utopian (“incredible mechanics”) or, on the contrary, dystopian metaphors (“metal losers”). Anno 2022, the media is reporting more and more realistically about AI. This was the conclusion of…
Hiking is fun. But especially if you’re hiking with kids, it’s even more fun when you try to track something down. Especially if you manage to find a piece of treasure as well. The Belgian start-up Totemus has developed a…
In Germany this summer, you can travel on regional public transport for 9 euros per month. Innovation Origins is seizing this opportunity to visit a number of future-proof projects. In this edition, we travel to Dresden. After a train ride…