Artificial i Intelligence (AI) is a vague concept for a lot of people. Some find it fantastic what is possible with virtual reality goggles, self-driving cars, and robots. Others are terrified of it and fear a new kind of dictatorship…
To develop an app that enables students of Applied Psychology to practice coaching skills. This is the goal of the Tamacoachee project. Sebas Nouwens, the project leader of TamaCoachee, wants to design an app that uses artificial intelligence to provide…
The Eindhoven-based company SALD is making great progress with its revolutionary “Spatial Atom Layer Deposition” battery for electric cars. This is what their CEO Frank Verhage states in a press release. According to Verhage, within a few years, the SALD…
This article is written by Bart Wernaart & Mignon van Halderen, Fontys University of Applied Sciences. Martin Heidegger already told us. In his masterpiece ‘Die Frage Nach der Techniek‘ (1954), he shows that technology is never neutral. It distorts the…
Smart traffic lights that monitor the air quality and noise levels on roads. Vienna will install 200 of these devices at the end of this year. The poles are connected to the internet so they take into account the actual…
Mark gazes outside; he is not looking forward to the coming period. He has to evaluate his team again and hold 20 interviews in 3 weeks. In addition, he has to give feedback on his colleagues who are on the…
Even before entrepreneur Patrick Coulier could figure out how he would deal with the lockdown that started in the second week of March in Belgium, the start-up rescue team of EIT InnoEnergy had already called him. Coulier says that they…
Dutch football club PSV wants to install UV-C disinfection lighting in the dressing rooms in the Philips Stadium and in some spaces at its training facility De Herdgang. The designated supplier is the global lighting company Signify, which has its…
I wish I had come up with this title myself, but unfortunately, this is not the case. ‘Would you want your daughter to marry a marketing man?‘ is the title of an academic article that Professor Richard Farmer wrote for…
Only a few people (fortunately) are familiar with the problem: They went through a painful MRI scan because they had been fitted with a cochlear implant, i.e. a hearing aid. The reason for this is that these types of implants…