According to a study by the environmental organization WWF Germany, ten million metric tons of food is thrown in the garbage every year in this country alone, despite still being edible. A mobile food scanner will allow consumers and supermarket…
Integrating, blending in, embedding yourself in your new region and community – it’s not always obvious for the dozens of new companies that come to Brainport Eindhoven from far away places like Brazil, India or even Australia. That’s exactly why…
When a ship loaded with coal enters a harbour, soon the entire area might be covered with coal dust. A start-up from Gdynia, Poland, has an idea how to prevent that. Last year’s summer was rather hard for citizens of…
High-tech company TRUMPF – one of the main companies in ASML’s supply chain – is acquiring Philips Photonics, headquartered in Ulm, Germany and with branches in Eindhoven, Aachen and with sales offices in Shanghai and Qingdao, China. “This opens up a…
Whether you expect it or not, some of the nicest bicycle innovations come from Germany. Previously we paid attention to the Grilling Bike, now we came across another striking concept: a model that can be used not only as a…
Recently I watched the fascinating Netflix documentary Wild Wild Country about the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, who had a huge group of followers in the 1980s. Often it was because of a message of love, encouragement of creativity and craftsmanship…
Are we more or less at the mercy of our desires for food because the brain releases the happiness hormone dopamine? Partly yes, scientists say, because food intake primarily serves to supply the body with energy and nutrients, which means…
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope discovered the brightest quasar ever seen in the early universe 12.8 billion light years from Earth. The quasar’s light began its journey when the universe was only about a billion years old, so the discovery…
NXP has entered a strategic partnership with Kalray, a pioneer in processors for new intelligent systems, in which the two want to enhance the safety of self-driving vehicles. The new platform will combine NXP’s portfolio of functional safety products with…
Rural Spark, a social start-up from Den Bosch, and SmartPower Nigeria set out to electrify around one million unelectrified households in the west-African country within the next five years. With the rapidly growing population in Nigeria, the country is expected to…