Software can help track waste on construction projects
Waste in the construction industry is often seen as inevitable – regardless of whether you are building a new house or office, a road or a railway track, or refurbishing…
Trail-blazing suspension tool using IoT gives mountain bikers a better ride
If you’re hurtling downhill over rocks and mud at 50km/h, you want your bike suspension to work for you, not against you. But suspension set-up is a dark art for…
Home security specialist partners with product design and development firms
Home security start-up Boundary has signed contracts with consultancy i4 Product Design (i4PD) and product developer Invent, Design, Build (IDB) to bring its “disruptive smart home security alarm to life”. …
Lone worker safety firm launches app to transform smartphone into protection device
Lone worker devices and services firm Safe Shores Monitoring has launched Companion, an app that transforms a smartphone into a protection device “with unrivalled safety features”. The Glasgow-based lone worker…
Video games and robots take centre stage in V&A Dundee’s 2019 programme
Videogames, robots, and the future of design will be the focus of the V&A Dundee’s 2019 international exhibition programme. It will be the first exhibition to fully consider the complexity…
Scottish company demonstrates system that could replace GPS navigation
The UK’s first quantum accelerometer for navigation has been demonstrated by a team from Glasgow-based M Squared and Imperial College London. Most navigation today relies on a global navigation satellite…
Festival explores ‘collision between theatre, new technologies and interactive art’
From fake news and the “wild west of the internet” to the threat of AI on the future of jobs, a festival launching this week in Dundee will explore how…
Samsung provides first glimpse of its folding phone
Samsung Electronics unveiled its much-anticipated foldable phone in San Francisco today, urging Android developers to start writing apps for it. The technology promises the screen of a small tablet in…
Digital Technology Awards 2019; looking for the best and brightest tech talent
Entries are now open for the 2019 Digital Technology Awards, with ScotlandIS inviting innovative, exciting and disruptive tech firms to enter. The awards showcase excellence within the industry, rewarding the…
Microsoft CEO praises Scottish housing association’s adoption of fall prevention tech
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella has praised a technology that’s being used by a Dumfries and Galloway housing association to prevent falls in elderly residents. Nadella made the comments during…