Almost half of all elderly people in a care home are suffering from sleeping problems. They have difficulty falling asleep due to the use of medication or suffer from “call and error” behaviour due to diseases such as dementia. Qwiek…
LONDON / VIENNA, 19 November 2018 – Sophie Skach experiments with electronic textiles. She tries to find out what data on human social behaviour can be obtained from clothing – and how this knowledge can be used in a meaningful…
Altaeros developed the first commercial demonstration of its BAT (Buoyant Airborne Turbine) product. The BAT uses a helium-filled, inflatable shell to lift to high altitudes where winds are stronger and more consistent than those reached by traditional tower-mounted turbines. High…
EFFECT Photonics, a leading developer of high-performance DWDM optical components based on its optical System-on-Chip, has completed a series-B funding round led by Innovation Industries. Financial details were not revealed. EFFECT Photonics’ headquarters is in the Videolab in the Eindhoven neighbourhood…
Productivity has been the focus in Dutch agriculture for many decades. However, at present, other aspects of food production have received increasingly more attention. One of the aspects that have been scrutinized is the length of the current supply chains…
DELFT/EINDHOVEN, 19 November – No doubt, this what consumers all over the world are waiting for: phone sensors that measure air quality, tiny solar panels for device charging, phone batteries that might never run out, highly efficient fuel cells and…
Yvonne van Hest is responsible for the PEOPLE domain as Program Director at Brainport Development. In her columns for IO Eindhoven, she focuses on regional developments, backgrounds and trends in education and the labour market. In order to do my job well, data…
The apple of the Polish government’s eye are start-ups. With a 700-million euro programme Start In Poland the authority has ambitions to make Poland a start-up hub for Central Europe. This is the second of two articles about the innovation…
With a special short movie, Eindhoven has started the holiday season. In the ten minute video, two of Eindhoven’s trademarks are combined: the light and the Eindhoven vibes. Steye van Dam plays the role of the civil servant who has to come up…
My personal mission is to accelerate the transition to renewable energy so we can make this world a happier place. I have many wonderful fellow travellers that share this goal but are being bamboozled by entropy pessimism which puts them…