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Combined pitch

Modern-day trailers come from the 3D printer. Now, a German startup’s platform is connecting nature-loving holidays-makers with private hosts who offer legal pitches for...

Online integration

A pop-up display could help those with limited vision access the digital world. Meanwhile, a Cologne-based startup is offering the German-speaking deaf community, who...

Available provision

In Africa, group buying is making fresh produce more affordable. Meanwhile, a new startup in Germany is aiming to provide warm meals to those...

Pow(d)erful protection

A frame for endotracheal tubes helps protect patients. Equally important: quickly staunching blood when wounds bleed profusely. Now, a Taiwanese startup is showing how...

Genuine change

Thanks to nanotechnology the human eye can perceive its surroundings in the highest possible resolution. Now a Spanish startup is looking to nanotechnology to...

Back in the saddle

Some bicycle wheels are truly otherworldly. Now a Stuttgart-based startup is focusing on personalised saddles, taking their cue from cyclists’ behinds. Using an A4...

Reading the room

An app is inspiring children to read books. But as a non-profit organisation in the US has shown, books are also highly valuable in...

Harmless attraction

The farming industry could greatly reduce its pesticide use. But using natural solutions such as messengers released by female insects is better still. The...

Bright exemption

Laser light helps to heal serious burns. A research team from Texas and Portugal has been experimenting with light to fight cancer and has...

New resolution

Special glasses reduce age-related visual impairment. A healthy human eye can see with an astonishing resolution of 25,000 ppi, a density that no electronic...