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Europeans develop innovative, sustainable food packaging product

We're constantly on the go, and products that make our lives easier are always welcome. But keeping products safe is important. This is especially true for the food industry. When fats, oils and other food components are oxidised, the foods we eat lose nutrients and colours. Steering...

Star Projects - Shine a light! Indoor solar cells!

Scientists are putting the finishing touches to a new way of harvesting electricity from light.Paul Rebhan, the Global Business Development Manager at British technology company G24i told euronews: "The easiest explanation is it's a solar cell. The benefit of ours is that it works indoors...

Star Projects - Bomb-proof textiles take off

Aviation safety is a worldwide concern. European researchers want to prevent further catastrophes with the help of textiles tested in explosive ways. At a British research centre experiments are being conducted into the effects of bomb blasts.

Star Projects - Innovative digital monitoring can prevent accidents

Industrial accidents in Europe claim around 6 in every 100,000 workers each year. That's according to Eurofound, which oversees the improvement of living and working conditions.

Star Projects - Quantel eyes the future of lasers

Lasers are everywhere - from laptops to satellites, they are a vital part of modern life. The power and compact nature of fibre lasers means they are great for industry, but now French firm Quantel is looking to take them into a whole new spectrum of applications.

Researchers light up Europe with LEDs

Novel light-source technology just got a big boost in Europe thanks to the OLED100.eu ('Organic LED (light-emitting diode) lighting in European dimensions') project which tackled the challenge to develop the techniques needed to form the basis for efficient OLED applications for the...

Robots for brain surgery? EU project shows how

An EU-funded team of researchers has developed a robot able to help neurosurgeons in performing keyhole brain surgery. This robot is accurate in performance and has incredible memory, especially since it has 13 types of movement compared to the 4 available to human hands, as well as...

Comcast Selects GreenPeak RF4CE chips for Xfinity TV

GreenPeak announced that Comcast Cable Communications has selected GreenPeak’s controller chips in conjunction with ZigBee RF4CE technology for use in television remote controls for its Xfinity TV service.

Poland a bright spot in EU fiscal woes
Poland a bright spot in EU fiscal woes

Footwasher Media's Lou Covey sat down with three Polish startup touring the Silicon Valley recently and talked about the health of the Polish entreprenurial environment.

EU project develops advanced data management system

An EU-funded team of researchers has succeeded in developing a novel accounting framework that uses sophisticated tools for policy analysis. The EXIOPOL ('A new environmental accounting framework using externality data and input-output tools for policy analysis') project is backed under...

Dungeons and Dragons Dice Gauntlet
Dungeons and Dragons Dice Gauntlet

Feb 3

The D&D bracer is a fairly quick, fun, nerdy LilyPad project. The final product is a wearable bracer with a display that will randomly generate numbers between 1 and 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, or 100 in response to arm movement, so it can effectively replace all of the dice in your bag for a D&D session.

Sustainable?
Sustainable?

Feb 2

I'd like some genius to define sustainable. Could we count something that we can keep doing for 100 billion years - beyond the death of the Universe as we currently understand such things - as sustainable? How about a billion years?

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