When it comes to the sport of cycling, every single ounce counts. That can, however, be at the expense of quality. The Viennese start-up Tubolito has designed an inner tube for bicycles that is both light and very strong. In…
A Dutch start-up by the name of Coolfinity has already won several prizes. And the most recent one was their nomination as an Innovation Award Honoree in the CES “Tech for a better world” category. Coolfinity will receive the award…
October 1995, Massachusetts, the Jackson twins were born, weighing two pounds each. Although alive, the staff was well aware of the fragility of the little patients. Technology and staff would be doing their utmost to increase chances both girls would…
Michael Tagscherer has been Chief Technology Office (CTO) at the Munich-based security technology group Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) since July 2019. A newly created position. As a computer scientist and doctor of electrical engineering, Tagscherer has worked intensively on neural networks and…
You could just throw your biowaste in the green container. Then it will eventually become compost or bioheat. Having your own compost heap is also a good idea if you have a garden. Then you could make your own humus.…
Portable biosensors that monitor health and fitness without the need to apply anything on your actual body are becoming increasingly popular among adults. This technology isn’t particularly suitable for use with newborns. The devices are often bulky. Or there is…
Wind tunnels are widely used in science and in the sports world. Yet computer simulations that simulate wind electronically are also becoming more and more common. Are wind tunnels still advancing, or will they be wholly replaced by computer-generated wind…
Zeeland, on the Dutch North Sea coast, is not the first province you think of when it comes to innovation. All the more reason for Innovation Origins to adjust that image. In six episodes we show a cross-section of the organisations in…
The Eloop e-car-sharing system not only enables emission-free mobility, but its cars also measure the local environmental impact. This is how the founders of this start-up from Vienna want to make their contribution to future-oriented mobility. One of the founders,…
A Danish passenger car was the first in the world to drive 80 kilometres on a mixture of biofuel from seaweed. Wageningen Food & Biobased Research produced the biobutanol from seaweed sugars. The successful experiment stems from the Horizon 2020…