Simon Cocking

1 week ago | irishtechnews.ie | Simon Cocking

Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Peter Burke, and Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, James Lawless, today announced funding of €17 million for two additional projects under Call 7 of the Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund (DTIF). The announcement took place in the National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT), Co. Dublin.

1 week ago | irishtechnews.ie | Simon Cocking

We look at the new PanPan Kids Smartwatch, see more about the device here. PanPan Kids Smartwatch, parent-controlled wearable, reviewedThere is definitely an interest and a desire, among parents, for a product like this. In local schools there are parent’s whatsap groups discussing forward looking policies for their children beginning their educational journeys with the looming challenge of screen time, and the competition for their children’s eyeballs.

1 week ago | irishtechnews.ie | Simon Cocking

Guest post by Gary Beckwith, author of How to Make A Million in BusinessI never saw my dad. When I was eight years old, he left the family home. He never called, never visited; he just checked out of the whole ‘being a parent thing’. As I grew older, though, I was determined to have some sort of relationship with him, anything. So I kept showing up at his workplace on the River Thames, where he was an engineer on the tugs and barges.

2 weeks ago | irishtechnews.ie | Simon Cocking

Revolutionary €8 Million EU-Funded Project Aims to Restore Vision for Millions with Cutting-Edge Bioprinting Technology to tackle Corneal BlindnessA groundbreaking initiative is set to transform the future of vision restoration with the launch of KeratOPrinter, an €8 million EU-funded project pioneering an advanced bioprinting suite capable of producing fully functional, biocompatible, full-thickness human corneas.

2 weeks ago | irishtechnews.ie | Simon Cocking

It could take seven decades before large-scale nature restoration is underway across 30% of Scotland’s land, new figures from the Scottish Rewilding Alliance show. The coalition of more than 20 organisations calculates that rewilding across Scotland is now underway across 2.5% of the country’s land, with 195,615 hectares rewilding. This is an increase of 32,985 hectares since the Alliance’s last assessment one year ago, which reported that 2.1% of Scotland’s land was rewilding.