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In May we conducted our interview with Patrick Jaritz, founder and managing director at Ariot. A young company that accelerates digital innovations in the construction industry. Read the interview below: What does your company do? We help companies in the construction industry to take at least three steps forward in digitization. We don’t bring paper … Read more START-UPS MADE IN AUSTRIA: ARIOT

The PepsiCo brand Gatorade has launched a patch that analyses the sweat produced by athletes. This serves to let users know how and when to best rehydrate after working out. The “Gx Sweat Patch” is applied to the inner arm before a workout and funnels the fluid through a color-changing channel on the patch. The … Read more SMART PATCHES FOR ATHLETES

This month’s interview we held with Fabian Lichtenstein, CEO and Founder of Vivellio, a smart health management platform which helps you to be more connected to you doctors and have all your medical and health related content in one place. What is your company doing? We create solutions that facilitate communication in the healthcare sector, … Read more START-UPS MADE IN AUSTRIA: VIVELLIO

The SARS-Cov2 pandemic holds the world in its firm grip for over a year now. With restaurants, cinemas, hotels and other cultural institutions mostly closed in the last months, opportunities for gathering inspiration fell flat. Therefore, our team decided to do a team activity every month (if possible). As soon as museums in Austria were … Read more 1030 Innovation @ van Gogh immersive experience & Andy Warhol Exhibition

Thanks to a partnership between FDA Architects and the start-up Urban Therapy, Europe’s biggest vertical garden has been set up in the Spanish city of Santander. It is located in a disused tobacco factory, which was converted into a civic centre. The vertical garden has over 22,000 individual plants and 560 square metres of greenery. … Read more EUROPE’S LARGEST INDOOR VERTICAL GARDEN

Rolls Royce has begun ground testing 100% sustainable aircraft fuel (SAF) in small commercial aircraft. The SAFs are made using a range of sustainable sources, including solid urban waste, cellulose waste from forestry, used cooking oil, energy plants such as commelina, jatropha, halophytes and algae, as well as non-biological fuels such as exhaust gases from … Read more SUSTAINABLE AIRCRAFT FUEL

The designer Emilie Burfeind has created the “Sneature” sock shoe which is made from dog hair and mushrooms. The production uses dog hair was spun by Berlin-based start-up Modus Intarsia into high-quality “Chiengora”. This sustainable resource is then used in a 3D knitting process to make a shoe, while a mycelium is mixed with a … Read more SUSTAINABLE SHOE MADE FROM DOG HAIR AND MUSHROOMS

A research team at Tsinghua University has developed the prototype of a load-reducing backpack that makes loads feel 20% lighter and uses energy from the wearer’s movements to power small electronic devices. Specifically, the researchers built two elastomers into the backpack to reduce its impact on wearers while they walk. The elastomers also use the … Read more CREATING ENERGY BY WEARING A LOAD-REDUCING BACKPACK

What does Revo Food do? We develop plant-based seafood with 3D Food Printing. This allows us to recreate the complex structure of products such as salmon or tuna, and gives consumers a sustainable choice compared to the harmful practices of the fishing industry (overfishing, toxic waste materials in the fish meat). When was your company … Read more START-UPS MADE IN AUSTRIA: REVO FOODS

The start-up NINU has launched a perfume of the same name whose scent can be flexibly changed by an app with the help of some AI technology. There are more than a million vegan scents to choose from. They can be combined at will using the AI assistant Pierre and their intensity can be varied. … Read more PERSONALIZED PERFUME BY AI