Smart Cities – Dublin
A smart city (also smarter city) uses digital technologies or information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance quality and performance of urban services, to reduce costs and resource consumption, and to engage more effectively and actively with its citizens. Sectors that have been developing smart city technology include government services, transport and traffic management, energy, health care, water and waste. Smart city applications are developed with the goal of improving the management of urban flows and allowing for real time responses to challenges. A smart city may therefore be more prepared to respond to challenges than one with a simple ‘transactional’ relationship with its citizens. Other terms that have been used for similar concepts include ‘cyberville, ‘digital city’’, ‘electronic communities’, ‘flexicity’, ‘information city’, ‘intelligent city’, ‘knowledge-based city, ‘MESH city’, ‘telecity, ‘teletopia’’, ‘Ubiquitous city’, ‘wired city’.
Wearables of the Future
From the fit bit to the apple watch, it’s hard to read the news these days without reading about wearables they are appearing everywhere. We’re not here to sell you the fit bit though we’re here to tell you about some wearables that we think deserve more recognition.
The Tech Industry Gender Gap
We recently attended an event called the InspireFest which was a 2 day event focussing on equality between genders and also lowering the gender gap in various occupations. There were many keynotes given at this event from many different perspectives but, at this time we will focus on the Tech Industry.
Inspire Fest 2015 Speakers
We are so excited to be attending Inspire Fest 2015 in Dublin
Inspirefest 2015 is a two day international event that connects professionals interested in the future of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
#STEM
with new perspectives on innovation, leadership and success.
These perspectives are shared by women who are leaders in their particular field, and by advocates of diversity in education, research, business and society.
We are so excited to hear these experts speak in their field of expertise as its not often a #STEM event is thrown.
Hardware Hackathon Winners,the follow up
As we seem to be delving into the topic of hackathons recently i had a thought, where have all the previous winners gone?
though the teams are only in the spotlight for minutes after they win, they leave a lasting impression on us, we’re all wondering when is this project going to come to the market?. Fear not my fellow readers as progress is being made
here are a few teams of past hardware hackathon winners and where they are now
Hardware Hackathon Myth Breaker
Notes from a hackathon newbie Recently, I was involved in my very first Hackathon. I’d heard of them and read about them but had never really been at one. To be honest, I kind of thought you had to be a designer, an expert or just plain cocky. I wasn’t sure what I could add […]
Top Hardware Accelerators
STARTUPBOOTCAMP HIGHTECHXL
Location: Netherlands
What You Get:
partners
Access to top markets in Europe, China and India
€15K in cash per team
3+3 months free office space
Top notch location on the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Invitation to SBC global alumni network and growth program
What They Take In Return:
8% equity. All contracts are simple, transparent, and available for all to see.
Read more for see the entire list.
What is a Startup Accelerator?
A startup Accelerator is a programme typically lasting 3-4 months and is designed to tweak and jump start a business and push you out into the real world. Many accelerators invest in the business in return for small amounts of equity. This varies from accelerator and region. The seed capital invested may not be very much but the mentorship and connections lead to higher potential for raising capital when the programme is complete.
Hardware Hackathon Dublin May 22-24
What Is a Hackathon?
A hackathon is an event where people bring their ideas. They pitch them to the crowd and the crowd votes. The top 10 ideas then get made. The crowd splits itself into teams to make, test, break, start again, and on the final day the team pitches its idea.
Arduino Blog
Arduino has become so popular these days, we’ve decided to devote an entire blog post to it. As I’m sure you already know, Arduino is a tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world than your desktop computer. It’s an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple microcontroller board, and a development environment for writing software for the board.
