Tag: #157

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 trailers and campers away from large campsites. Overnight stays are currently also available in both tiny houses and tents across Europe. Each host can offer a maximum of three accommodation solutions, with length of stay...

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 also have difficulty reading, a similar opportunity: its avatar renders website content into sign language. Website administrators use an internet platform with a toolbox to arrange pre-defined blocks of text and tailor them to individual...

In Africa, group buying is making fresh produce more affordable. Meanwhile, a new startup in Germany is aiming to provide warm meals to those in financial need, while simultaneously reducing food waste in canteens. Students or those on a tight budget register on the app. After vetting, they can request food each day from a nearby canteen for a...

A frame for endotracheal tubes helps protect patients. Equally important: quickly staunching blood when wounds bleed profusely. Now, a Taiwanese startup is showing how this can be done with biocompatible agents like amino acids. The latter build proteins in the body and assist with the production of enzymes. Using a newly-developed biotechnological method, the team combined amino acid molecules...

Thanks to nanotechnology the human eye can perceive its surroundings in the highest possible resolution. Now a Spanish startup is looking to nanotechnology to help prevent documents and products from being falsified. The key here: photo-sensitive microparticles. Integrated into ink, they are used to print security features in QR- and barcodes. As in current methods for bank notes, the...

Dialysis could soon be significantly less trying. Hospital patients who take regular medication rely heavily on the nursing staff. To unburden both, an Italian startup has created an automatic pill dispenser placed directly by patients’ bedside. The wireless device is controlled through a cloud-based online portal into which electronic medication plans are imported or patient requirements manually entered. There’s...