Adama Innovations Ltd, an early stage company focused on deploying nanotechnology to common manufacturing processes, has secured €750,000 in seed-funding. The investment will enable Adama to scale up production of their first product, a nano-scale probe fabricated from diamond, used in atomic force microscopy (AFM), which images, measures, and manipulates matter at the nanoscale. Owing […]
Netflix adds and removes content from their catalogue all the time. This month they’re adding several titles that should prove popular: House, starring Hugh Laurie. One of my favourite TV shows of all time. Laurie, who a lot of people remember for his comedy roles with Stephen Fry, plays an antisocial maverick doctor who specialises […]
The Doodle 4 Google competition is returning for its seventh year running. Beginning today, November 3rd, Google is calling on children across the country to grab their pens, pencils, crayons and paintbrushes and get doodling! The theme of this year’s competition is ‘My Perfect Day’ and we will once again ask children to use the Google […]
If you’re a frequent traveller or simply spend a lot of your time “out and about” you’ve probably ended up buying extra batteries or backup chargers for your various mobile devices. The problem with most of the external battery packs that you can get is that they take hours to charge. The “Pronto” aims to […]
The first ever Startup Weekend Limerick will run from November 21 to 23. It’s one of just four such events taking place in Ireland this year and follows the same model as Startup Weekend Galway which is on the weekend before. Shane McCarthy of Bluechief is one of the organisers, and he writes: Having an event like […]
Grumpy Cat will star in the upcoming movie Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever. Here’s the trailer:
