Delta and Delft Integraal/Outlook often write about innovative ideas that offer great promises for the future. But what has happened to them a couple of years on? What for instance has happened to the idea of the pocket negotiator, a computer-based advisor that helps you to reach the optimal result in negotiations.
London is preparing for the Christmas shopping rush. Since the beginning of this month one of the city’s busiest junctions, Oxford Circus, has a diagonal pedestrian crossing, the BBC reports.
The golden liquid smells a bit like almonds, but in fact can be made from any vegetal matter and has great potential for biofuels. Yet, it was almost forgotten: furfural.
Reducing floods or droughts could prevent major economic and humanitarian catastrophes. Improved weather forecasting offers new ways of dealing with such hydrological events. But how to deal with the uncertainties of forecasts? Schalk Jan van Andel lets the computer analyze what actions to take.
Commuters on busy roads could in future join a ‘road train’ consisting of a series of cars and trucks. An EU project is looking for inexpensive ways to get this technology on the road.
For the first time researchers at the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering have received Veni grants. The grants should lead to greater insights into 3D perception and the ways consumers perceive products.
Two new weather radars offer unprecedented sharp and dynamic views of the rain formation processes in clouds. They should help in clarifying the connections between air pollution, rain and climate change.
Until now the internet could not handle Chinese or Arabic web addresses. But by next year the first internationalized domain names (iDNs) could be in use.
