This wearables start-up is developing jewellery to keep you safe
Two engineering graduates from Queen’s University Belfast have designed Bold by Stand, a piece of wearable technology that you put on like jewellery, which aims to keeps you safe. It sends a message to...
View ArticleHow this student turned his passion for music into an electronics start-up
Lewis Loane is a young inventor from Newtownards who is passionate about two things that are related, even if it might not seem obvious: electronics and music. These two interests collided one day in a...
View ArticleWhy this founder created a Tinder-like site for personal carers
Warrenpoint-based Austen Burns knows from personal experience how important it is to find the right carer. Burns has cerebral palsy and has always found creative ways to cope with his condition, such...
View ArticleHow this site aims to digitise the relationship between golfers and caddies
Graham Curry, a caddie at Northern Ireland’s Castlerock Golf Club, is looking to digitise the process of how caddies are assigned to golfers with his new venture, HandiCaddie. Curry explains the...
View ArticleHow this team plans to design eco-friendly buildings using waste materials
Elizabeth Gilligan is hoping to completely change the way we build our cities. As she reaches the final stages of her PhD in architecture at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), she is pursuing her...
View ArticleHow these students are developing an app to detect crop disease
Two friends invented an AI and satellite-based farming solution, CropSafe, while they were still at St Mary’s Grammar School in Magherafelt. “We both come from farming backgrounds,” said Micheál...
View ArticleHow these researchers developed a test to improve water and soil quality
Here is a fact that I bet you didn’t know: rivers and lakes age over time. That ageing process is due to the fact that plants grow faster than they die and decompose so, over time, a natural body of...
View ArticleWhy this entrepreneur created a monitoring system for e-sports athletes
Ryan Scollan is a self-described “sports fanatic” who is pouring his energy into G-Science, an e-sports performance company. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Scollan attended Loughborough University,...
View ArticleWhy this student is designing tools to help children learn to write
Michael Upham built a product as a school project in 2017 and incorporated it as a company last month. For his A-level course in product design, he canvassed the opinions of teachers at a local primary...
View ArticleHow this team is creating tech to help patients control their asthma
The UK has one of the highest levels of asthma sufferers in the world. Airbrio is a Northern Irish business looking to revolutionise asthma treatments with a device and sensor technology, combined with...
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