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Light is a recurrent theme in Brabant's business landscape. Philips, of course, is the best-known example, but you can trace a direct line of development between the CD, DVD and Blu-ray and today's most complex photonics applications. Such as Morphotonics in Veldhoven.

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Dutch Design Week: fun in the train

On behalf of NS Dutch Railways, Ontwerpbureau Waarmakers came up with an unusual game to make travelling by train more fun. It underwent its baptism of fire during the Dutch Design Week 2017.
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GLOW lights up every corner of Eindhoven

Every year, surprising installations created by innovative artists transform Eindhoven into a huge light art exhibition. Eindhoven's GLOW festival is a pioneering statement on the borderline of art, design and technology. At the same time, the festival seeks a certain balance: what does the public still find credible?
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Brabant is big in data science

Artificial intelligence, big data, robotics, machine learning: the world of data science is multifaceted. And although even the most practised specialists have yet to fully explore all the potential of their promising disciplines, the latter are already capturing the imagination of the general public. Researchers and entrepreneurs in Brabant are at the forefront in this field when it comes to knowledge development and its application.
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Smarter farming with the weather and soil data provided by AgroExact

There was a time when farmers would look up at the sky and observe their cattle to predict the weather. When they would go out into the fields and turn over the topsoil to decide whether or not to irrigate. Nowadays, they use their smartphone to check short-term weather data in real time and analyse soil moisture values in their fields, which are often quite a distance away. Smarter farming. Or perhaps we should say that they can, if they are using AgroExact's weather app and soil moisture sensors.
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For Tech United, developing advanced robotics is all part of an exciting game

Sydney, 7 July 2019. On the day that the Dutch national women’s football team, the Orange Lionesses, played their World Cup final against the USA, Tech United’s football robots line up against China to battle for the World Cup. The score is still 3 – 3 two minutes before the end of normal playing time. Suddenly there is a resounding “Nooo!” from the sideline: China has scored. Was a year of backbreaking hard work about to end in defeat?
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EFFECT Photonics is working on the Internet of the future

Photonic chips from EFFECT Photonics are faster and more energy-efficient than electronic chips. So they are a viable solution for our data centres that increasingly consume vast amounts of energy.