Electronics are becoming smaller but also more powerful. Their manufacturers are looking for ways to accelerate and scale up their production. Rob Hendriks is a program lead at TNO and a founder of FononTech, a spin-off company from Holst Centre…
IPEE NV, a start-up from the Belgian city of Antwerp, has launched a smart toilet and urinal on the market that decides for itself how much water is needed for flushing. You don’t even have to touch a button for…
Batteries are the single most costly part of electric vehicles (EVs). Their range is the main pressing concern for those who are considering buying an EV. Consequently, being able to monitor their status as well as protect them can improve…
Art, new concepts, innovative start-ups: These are of great value to society and are ‘born’ in creative incubators. Partly due to an overly stressed real estate market, however, housing in such places has become precarious. Yet there are also opportunities.…
Honey bees pollinate 80 percent of all flowering plants in the world. This means that they highly affect the production of the food we eat. In fact, much of the food is pollinator-dependent. To help preserve bee colonies, Andrew Wood,…
If a baby is in distress after birth, for instance, because it was born much too early or is severely oxygen deprived, the medical team must act quickly to save its life. A new tablet with smart software can help…
When lightning strikes water, then water has a temporary disinfecting effect. Even rain during a thunderstorm has this short-lived effect. Start-up VitalFluid mimics this natural phenomenon. By further refining the technology that was developed at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e),…
Separating food waste is a relatively new practice in Lithuania. Dealing with it is one of the hardest tasks for municipalities – particularly in the early stages. Since 2019, as per the national waste management plan, cities with over 50,000 inhabitants…
The European Commission is handing out 1.8 billion euros across the continent for large-scale investments aimed at making industry more sustainable. It was announced this week that the money from the second round of grants from the European Investment Fund…
Breathing is something we all do. We even do it without thinking about it. And it is precisely the act of reflecting on how you breathe that seems to be so important. Together with respiratory therapists, the Delft company Glimp…