Helicopter gearboxes have a constant speed. This is reflected in high fuel consumption and fixed flight characteristics. Vari-Speed, a new type of gearbox with variable speed, is intended to change this. Helicopter gearboxes are subject to different concepts than those…
In Austria, two thirds of excavated soil material are disposed of unchecked. If the building owners wanted to recycle it as compost, they would have to have it tested for heavy metal contamination according to the law. This hurdle is…
Solar energy is considered an excellent solution for a sustainable future. But what to do when the available rooftop areas on which panels are installed run out? It’s very simple: Go out on to the street. Or at least that…
No, the public lecture which Collette Cuijpers and Maike Kooijmans will give next week will not be full of empty praise for the digital world. Yet nor should we expect a string of warnings, never mind a lesson on right…
It would be a sensation if it were actually possible to artificially produce blood vessels using 4D printing. Because whether bypass or organ donation: The blood vessels from the printer could take over some vital functions. The goal of printing…
Entrepreneurship; it remains a profession which you do not learn at school. Fortunately, there is such a thing as the internet, with thousands of stories about adventurers who were successful or who have actually failed. Like how a family business…
We are the generation that switches from fossil energy to sustainable energy coming from sun, wind and various smaller energy sources. Technically a wonderful story, because for more than a billion years we can harvest hundreds of times more energy…
This week, the best read article on Innovations Origins was the article about the TU Eindhoven’s measure to hire only female scientists for the next eighteen months. That’s why we took a closer look at the subject by asking an…
Five months ago, we decided to advance the construction of Lightyear’s prototype. Not an easy decision, but it was necessary to test some of the concepts we had on paper with reality at an early stage. It meant a financial…
The Netherlands is generally regarded as a technically advanced country, but when it comes to the use of digital health technology it lags behind other countries. This is shown by Philips’ annual ‘Future Health Index‘ survey. This is particularly painful,…