This week, the car rental company Hertz became the largest fleet operator in the world in one fell swoop. The title is due to the announced purchase of no less than 100,000 electric vehicles (EVs) from the brand Tesla. The…
The next Dutch cabinet must do more to meet the 2030 climate targets. The annual Climate and Energy Outlook (KEV) of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) reveals that with the current policy – in the best case scenario –…
Danish start-up Really a Robot is ambitious and primed to take over the robotics world. Its first product #NoFever helps companies monitor sick staff. Jevgenijs Galaktionovs talks to us about it. What is Really a Robot? “An innovative start-up that aims…
Nowadays, we are lost without navigation. The groundwork for this revolutionary innovation was laid in Eindhoven, when Martin Thoone proposed to Philips’ NatLab in the early 1980s that they conduct research into navigation systems for cars. At first, Philips saw…
How can we as a society benefit even more from the knowledge that is being developed at our Dutch universities? How do you transfer this knowledge into innovations that boost our economy and offer solutions to our major societal challenges?…
A new video editing system that also works as a personal assistant to edit raw film material? The Danish company Kaspar will soon come out with a tool to help film and television makers. Filmmaker and founder Piotr Wieniwicz talks…
In Singapore, you can buy cultured chicken nuggets as of last year. Because growing meat is still very expensive and the snack should still be somewhat affordable, the cultured meat is mixed with vegetable meat substitutes. Meat can be cultured…
People who determine urban planning and climate policy often live in a distorted reality: they live in quiet and leafy neighborhoods, experience road traffic primarily as car drivers and are often second-home owners and frequent flyers. Overall, they contribute more…
We don’t have any idea of how many couples argue every day while choosing curtains. But these times could soon be over, as in the future we will not need curtains anymore. Besides being a controversial choice to make in…
Our deeply-rooted hunter-gatherer instincts have been better served than ever in the last decade, by being able to have anything we want delivered directly to our door with the click of a mouse. Between 2010 and 2019, online spending in…