A while ago, I attended a research presentation on autonomous cars by researchers at the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (DHBW). I learned that there are different levels of autonomous driving. The most basic level is ‘hands-on‘, in which the…
Next week, mobility experts from all over the world will come to Eindhoven and Helmond for the annual ITS Congress. That location was chosen for a reason because the number of mobility experiments and innovations is increasing almost every day…
It’s one of the ten nominees for Dutch “National Icon” and maybe one of the lesser known ones. High time to show what Smart*Light, a scientific consortium of 12 organizations in the Netherlands and Flanders that works on a ‘tabletop…
Cities all over the world are cautiously trying to keep the oldest diesel vehicles out. Germany is one of them. In cities like Stuttgart and Hamburg, there are already complete driving bans for older diesel cars in certain zones. Other…
Asthma is a disease that affects the lungs and especially the airways. It causes the inside airways to become inflamed and swollen. As a result, the bronchial mucous membranes secrete viscous mucus, which leads to an acute narrowing of the…
TU Delft scientists have created the world’s smallest autonomous racing drone. The main challenge in creating the drone lies in the use of only a single, small camera and in the highly restricted amount of processing. The main innovation, according…
NXP has acquired Marvell’s Wireless Connectivity portfolio in an all-cash, asset transaction valued at $1.76 billion. The acquisition encompasses Marvell’s WiFi Connectivity Business Unit, Bluetooth technology portfolio and related assets. The acquisition will enable NXP to deliver complete, scalable processing…
With an area of 13.5 million square kilometers, the Antarctic continent occupies around ten percent of the world’s land area and is thus far larger than Europe. With temperatures between minus 15 and minus 40 degrees Celsius in summer and…
This year’s Take Festival in Vienna was for the first time the venue of a symposium dedicated to new technologies in fashion. A Take on Tech, the name of the event, was dedicated to innovative technologies in fashion production. Take Festival…
Earth is also known as the “blue planet”, since around 70% of its surface is covered by water. No other planet in our solar system can be compared to Earth, although the oceans and lakes around the globe are not…