Innovation
# innovation - Monday 13 May, 2013
Is this the cleverest toilet door to ever exist?
So smart. So so smart.
# innovation - Wednesday 3 April, 2013
Irish to compete in €1 million satellite ideas competition
The top prize is €1 million and the prestigious title of ‘Galileo Master’.
# innovation - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
WATCH: Bubba Watson has an ingenious idea – golf hover carts
Is it real or a belated April Fools’ prank? Judge for yourself.
# innovation - Monday 21 January, 2013
New DCU Innovation Campus to create more than 200 jobs
Minister Richard Bruton said the aim of the new campus is to attract new Cleantech enterprises and drive growth in the green economy.
# innovation - Saturday 5 January, 2013
Oireachtas to question newspapers over ‘paying for linking’
Labour TD Seán Kenny is asking the National Newspapers of Ireland (NNI) to appear before an Oireachtas committee to explain its stance on linking.
# innovation - Sunday 4 November, 2012
3D printing: this is what happens next
One US start-up finds that the potential to make any design come to life as a physical object is huge.
# innovation - Tuesday 16 October, 2012
What could Irish businesses learn from those in Singapore?
An ESRI study has compared the two countries as examples of countries where the number of patents is above average.
# innovation - Friday 12 October, 2012
Taoiseach announces new American-Irish partnership
i360medical and the Cleveland Clinic and its Innovation Alliance have joined forces after being introduced by Enterprise Ireland.
# innovation - Sunday 16 September, 2012
What are they doing with that analogue space?
Your TV white space could be used by mobile phone operators or filled with wifi frequencies. Here’s what the experts think.
# innovation - Saturday 8 September, 2012
Column: ‘You need passion to be an inventor’
People are amazingly inventful, creative and resourceful – they have just forgotten that they are says Irish inventor, Jane Ni Dhulchaointigh.
# innovation - Wednesday 22 August, 2012
Careers clinic: How some graduates use innovative ‘campaigns’ to land a job
Multimedia campaigns, networking events, online pitches and a ‘Hire Me’ t-shirt: David Wogan decided to treat his job search as a mass-marketing project.
# innovation - Saturday 4 August, 2012
Ireland’s space programme: what Irish tech developments are heading out of this world?
From exercising in space to 3D animations, here’s how Ireland is contributing to global research for future space missions.
# innovation - Wednesday 27 June, 2012
Piracy case against megaupload founder is a threat to internet innovation, says Apple’s Wozniak
“It’s just kind of ridiculous what they did to his life”: Apple co-founder supports Kim Dotcom.
# innovation - Thursday 23 February, 2012
Why do China’s leaders love visiting Shannon?
Newswhip’s Paul Quigley discovers how Shannon, Co Clare helped invent modern China.
# innovation - Wednesday 22 February, 2012
UCD ‘spin-out’ companies plan more than 50 jobs by end of 2013
The new companies have come about from research undertaken at the Dublin university.
# innovation - Thursday 9 February, 2012
Ireland above EU average for innovation – study
A Europe-wide study rated us highly for research and skills – but noted a lack of financial support for innovative products.
# innovation - Wednesday 25 January, 2012
Column: A response to Sean Sherlock’s Drivetime interview on #SOPAIreland
Paul Quigley, founder of news story-tracking website Newswhip, analyses the arguments made by the junior minister yesterday in favour of a new online copyright law.
# innovation - Wednesday 21 December, 2011
The 9 at 9: Wednesday
Nine things to know this morning…
The 5 innovations that will change our lives in 5 years…
… That’s according to IBM’s annual market and societal trends analysis.
# innovation - Sunday 20 November, 2011
15 gadgets that are changing the tech world
Here’s a bunch of stuff you wish you had.
# innovation - Wednesday 2 November, 2011
Mexican club put players’ Twitter handles on back of jerseys
Club de Fútbol Jaguares de Chiapas have indicated that the move demonstrates how they are “conscious of the age we live in”.
# innovation - Saturday 1 October, 2011
Column: What is the secret of Silicon Valley? And can we bring it to Ireland?
Fine Gael TD Eoghan Murphy travelled to tech central in the US to figure out if Ireland can recreate that ecosystem for innovation and success. Rule 1 – stop writing reports and just get doing.
# innovation - Friday 9 September, 2011
NFL clubs to show fantasy stats on scoreboards
The organisation will now be showing players’ stats during games, and the experiment was tested out in the New Orleans-Green Bay encounter yesterday.
# innovation - Tuesday 9 August, 2011
Bum deal: volleyball players’ backsides pushing boundaries
British beach volleyball champions Zara Dampney and Shauna Mullin have signed a deal with sponsors Betfair that will see them become the first athletes to wear a quick response barcode. Where? On their bikini bottoms, of course.
# innovation - Sunday 31 October, 2010
Down but not out… Could Ireland be Europe’s “comeback kid”?
Ireland’s entrepreneurs won’t take this recession lying down.











































