Intel was scheduled to provide a spectacular drone display as part of the opening ceremony at this year’s winter Olympics. Unfortunately the drone part of the ceremony was cancelled. However that doesn’t mean that we can’t all enjoy the performance, as the company had shot video of their behind the scenes work on the performance […]
On Friday April 8th the final of the Intel Galileo 3rd Level Technology Competition took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin. The competition, which has been running since the beginning of January, is open to all 3rd level undergraduate students on the island of Ireland. The competition invites students to create projects based on […]
Exponential progress in chip design has given us a world of incredible processing power, with mobile gadgets that were unimaginable for most people even 10 years ago. Having had our expectations exceeded year after year, it’s perhaps understandable that we might think it will go on forever. But nothing lasts for ever. Of course we’ll continue to get improvements […]
On Friday January 22nd the National Grand Final of the Intel Mini Scientist will take place in the Science Gallery in Dublin. For the past number of months almost 6,000 students from across Ireland have been taking place in the Mini Scientist competition and the Grand Final will see the top 22 projects compete for […]
The Irish release date of the Microsoft Surface Pro 4 has been eagerly anticipated by its fans since it was announced in October in New York along side the Band 2, Book and Lumia 950 and 950XL. The devices is set to go on sale in Ireland today, 19th November 2015. Microsoft has touted the […]
Connectivity between devices and people in their homes, work and cars has emerged as the big theme to dominate the discussions, deals, and bars around Web Summit 2014. Paul Daugherty, CTO of Accenture, pointed out that there will be 50 billion digital devices by 2020 and believed that ‘the internet of things will dwarf the […]
Ireland’s first multidisciplinary Design and Hardware Hackathon has been one by Cash Up, the team which developed and prototyped a connected cash register over the course of the three-day event which finished last night. Following on the success of the Hardware Hackathon in September, the weekend event added a focus on design this time around. The event was organised […]
PCH, the company that designs custom manufacturing solutions for startups and Fortune 500 companies, announced today that it will co-host the Design and Hardware Hackathon in partnership with DCU, Ireland’s University of enterprise. The event will be run in conjunction with the Web Summit, and in partnership with NCAD. Airbnb, Allied Irish Bank (AIB), Design Partners, […]
President Michael D Higgins has called for a Republic of Creativity built on invention and original thinking. He was speaking at the opening of the Silicon Valley Global Forum organised by the Irish Technology Leadership Group in Limerick this morning. Entrepreneurs and technologists from Ireland and Silicon Valley gathered at the University Concert Hall for […]
Intel released this infographic a while back about everything that happens every minute on the internet with some projections of what things will look like in a couple of years time. The statistics are staggering, especially if you’ve been around long enough to remember how primitive the entire thing was 20 years ago (or longer […]
