Wearables for fast and easy diagnostics

You probably know that you can use wearables to monitor your health, sleep and improvements in sports. Today I attended a lecture by IMEC CEO Luc Van den hove organised by Holland High Tech. He spoke about the company’s vision on ‘connecting the unconnected’, using wearables to not only monitor your health, but also to

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Electric Aircrafts

My last post about small electric cars showed different innovations in electric urban vehicles. This also counts for electric airplanes. There has been a huge leap forward in batteries, battery management and (brushless) electro engines for airplanes. This makes it possible to design and produce (clean) aircrafts with an already impressive range. In this post

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Quarkson drone will bring you internet all across the world

Quarkson is a drone company from Portugal building a constellation of SkyOrbiters. They build two types, the SkyOrbiter LA (Low Altitude) and HA (High Altitude) version. The SkyOrbiter HA55 is a high-altitude flexible, non-polluting and cost-effective platform designed as an alternative to satellites and terrestrial systems. This system is capable of flying around the world

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Razor: UVA’s 3D printed drone with android autopilot

At the University of Virginia, engineers are printing airplanes. Three-dimensional printing is the production, or “printing,” of actual objects, such as toys or parts for devices, by using a machine that traces out layers of melted plastic in specific shapes until it builds a piece to the exact specifications of a computer-aided drawing produced by

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Gallery: Electric Trikes / vehicles

Last weekend I was in Antwerp, Belgium. The city centre was closed for car traffic to promote alternatives for clean urban transport. One of the solutions were these ‘reverse trike electric vehicles’. In the gallery above a quick view of different solutions that can be purchased nowadays. From DIY to James Bond like gadgets. Advantages:

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Startup: Glove translates sign-language to speech

    I met these guys pitch their idea yesterday at a startup bootcamp at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven. They are developing a glove that makes it possible to translate sign-language gestures into speech. Furthermore they showed options where this gloved can be used in the security or military branch.   0000

Drone: Iris+ can follow its user with “follow me” function

“You can fly the Iris+ Drone manually using the controller or use the advanced 3PV Follow Me mode that turns IRIS+ into your own hands-free camera crew. And our tablet-based software makes flight planning exactly this easy: If you can draw it, you can fly it.” Prices start at $750 Source: 3D Robotics Iris+ 0000