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StoryTourist: Where stories come to life

By AWA | Posted on March 28, 2018

Have you dreamed of stepping into the set of your favourite book and experiencing its fictional world through the eyes of the characters? With Malmö start-up Velodrom’s new app StoryTourist, that might actually come true Stepping into a new world Deriving from creative backgrounds in theatre and script writing, Johanna Forsman and Andreas Jansson founded...

Tags: app, books, copyright, literature, pokemon, reading, stories, story

Kubo: The future of coding

By AWA | Posted on February 28, 2018

Award-winning start-up KUBO Robotics helps teach young children the concept of coding with their interactive robot. A student project When entrepreneurs Tommy Otzen and Daniel Lindegaard started their Master project in Learning and Experience Technologies at the University of Southern Denmark in 2014, they didn’t have any specific agenda nor goal – only to find...

Tags: children, coding, Denmark, education, Intellectual Property, Kids, kubo, learning, Patent

XMReality: See it to believe it

By AWA | Posted on February 2, 2018

Over the past ten years, Linköping based XMReality has gone from a small research company to a Software-as-a-service enterprise by offering their customers a high tech augmented reality solution.  Through the eyes of an expert What do you do when the machine you are working with doesn’t work and you are alone? Don’t you wish...

Tags: augmented reality, Intellectual Property, Linköping, technology, XMReality

FlexQube: Brick by brick

By AWA | Posted on November 27, 2017

Child’s play: Inspired by Lego, the founders of Gothenburg based FlexQube aim to make their customers best in the world at intralogistics with their flexible yet simple solution When working for a world leading manufacturer for construction equipment, Per Augustsson noticed that the material management was quite static. Welded solutions were used to aid the...

Tags: FlexQube, Intellectual Property, intralogistics, IP, lego, logistics, sweden, USA

Amra: Measuring body fat with a six-minute scan

By AWA | Posted on November 17, 2017

What happens to your body if you only eat food from McDonalds for a month? Inspired by Morgan Spurlock’s Supersize Me, the founders of Amra came up with a groundbreaking method of scanning body fat and muscles to prevent disease In 2010, Swedish PhDs Magnus Borga and Olof Dahlqvist Leinhard, developed a new body composition...

Tags: Amra, Body scanning, disease, Fat, health care, Morgan Spurlock, MRI, Muscles

A virtual biopsy to diagnose cancer

By AWA | Posted on September 14, 2017

By measuring cell membrane permeability and cell shape with their new methods, Swedish research company CR Development wants to improve cancer diagnostics via MRI scans. Eureka Scientists Karin Bryskhe and Anna Stenstam were having coffee when their colleague Daniel Toppgaard came into the room reclaiming that he had found a way of measuring cell membrane...

Tags: cancer, cancer diagnostics, cancer treatment, CR Development, medtech, membrane permeability, MRI, patents

SwapKids: The app for divorced parents (and their kids)

By AWA | Posted on June 27, 2017

Going through a divorce is never easy. Adding kids to the equation makes everything even harder. Danish start-up entrepreneurs Mikkel Eskesen and Søren Christiansen want to simplify communication between divorcees and put the children first with their app SwapKids. “It is hard to communicate with somebody you might not want to talk to. SwapKids offers...

Tags: app, children, Danish, Denmark, Divorced, entrepreneur, Kids, Parenting, Parents

Helping babies breathe

By AWA | Posted on June 2, 2017

After spending endless nights making prototypes in a basement, doctors Kjell Nilsson and Gunnar Moa finally solved the riddle on how to help prematurely born babies breathe. Over 30 years later, their innovation has saved the lives of thousands of children all around the world – and still continues to do so. Struggling to cope...

Tags: babies, children, CPAP, Innovation, Intellectual Property, licencing, medtech, Neores, Patent

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