Approximately 35 billion plastic bottles are thrown away every year, and scientists estimate a total plastic waste of approximately 6300 million tons. 91 Percent of this waste is not being recycled, according to the same study written in 2017. Most…
Under the name of LAMPAS (High throughput Laser structuring with Multiscale Periodic feature sizes for Advanced Surface Functionalities), an international team of experts from TU Dresden starts working on laser-based surface treatment. The aim is to bring the promising new process…
Houses that come directly from the 3D concrete printers are still in experimental status, but ultimately this phenomenon could greatly simplify the construction sector. A project has just been completed at the Technical University of Graz in which future application…
With regard to autonomous driving, apart from independent parking of cars, little has been heard so far from Porsche, in contrast to compatriots BMW, Volkswagen and Mercedes. However, the Stuttgart based company has now announced that it will also carry…
It was an exciting Oscar night for Julia Körner. The film Black Panther, for which she had designed a 3D printed costume, was nominated in eight categories. Black Panther finally took the Oscars for three of them – including “her”…
Philips and Microsoft have chosen the Mobile World Congress Barcelona, one of the largest mobile events in the world, to unveil their mixed reality concept for the operating room of the future. Based on the state-of-the-art technologies of Philips’ Azurion…
Last week the European Space Agency ESA reached an important milestone in terms of the rocket engine. On the test bench P8 in Lampoldshausen, the BERTA engine successfully completed its first test run on 18 February 2019. BERTA (Biergoler Raumttransportaengine)…
Light is the city of light; But not light like a feather. The light of this city; is because of a bulb! A world-famous poem in Eindhoven and surroundings. By Freek de Jonge. A poem with a reference to the…
“The iPhone was introduced in 2007. Since then a touchscreen has become so usual that now it is being taken for granted,” says Bernard Gosselink, CTOUCH CFO. The Eindhoven company CTOUCH is a manufacturer of the interactive displays – the…
In Germany, breast cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancer types among women. Approximately 70,000 women have been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018. This is about 30 per cent of all cancer diagnoses. However, when detected early, there is…