T-shirts can testify to having undergone long journeys. Prior to being offered for sale in Germany, they first migrate from the cotton plantations in the USA to the weaving and dyeing mills in India and are then sewn in Bangladesh.…
Was the death of cyclist Bjorg Lambrecht, last week after a crash during the Tour of Poland, a stupid accident? Should the course have been made safer? Or is there something structurally wrong with the safety of the cyclists? Riders…
Nobody sits in a wheelchair for fun, so if you’re not able to cover distances using your own limbs, that’s quite a challenge. It is even more annoying when you also need both arms in order to move a wheelchair…
World Economic Forum (WEF) asked a group of international technology experts to identify this year’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies. After soliciting nominations from additional experts around the globe, the group evaluated dozens of proposals according to a number of criteria.…
Up Stream Surfing brings surfing into the city. All it takes is a river whose current has a velocity of one meter per second and a bridge. It is based on a pulley block system and uses the resources that…
Danqing Liu, assistant professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry of TU Eindhoven, is receiving more than 400,000 euros in order to develop smart surfaces that can secrete fluids and absorb them n response to light or to…
Paris, Berlin, Drimmelen. The self-driving minibus is on the rise and is gradually conquering the world as a way of bridging short distances. At least as long as the passengers take the minibus to heart and are willing to continue…
The forests around the globe are dwindling. One of the main reasons for this is forest clearance – and things are not getting any better. Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, has just fired Ricardo Galvão, head of the Institute for Space…
Most of the clicks on Innovation Origins this week went to the Start-up of the Month competition, where five European start-ups competed for this coveted title. This is logical, because next year the first Start-up of the Year will be…
Tension is rising in Rotterdam now that it has been announced that the city has a chance of being elected European capital of innovation next month. “We want to show the whole world what innovative power Rotterdam has to offer,”…