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Stefan Ullrich, Rainer Rehak
“Are you in it for the cause or in it for yourself?” Hannah doesn’t know how to answer her housemate’s question.
“If you’re in it for the cause,” Jelena continues, “you should accept. Ethics and sustainability are right up your alley. And there’s no such thing as bad publicity!“
Hannah takes […]
Dominik Pataky, Christina B. Class
Noah is co-founder and CTO of a small, but ambitious Startup, SmartEcoTours. The company offers environmentally sustainable vacation and excursion packages on its internet platform. Trips are curated from carefully selected partners and can be booked by clients through the platform. All packages use mostly sustainability-certified businesses and partners. The […]
Constanze Kurz, Stefan Ullrich
Vicky works in the IT department of a medical supply company. While the firm initially employed only a small ten-member team, it has grown tremendously in the past two years and seen a three-fold increase in staff. Vicky’s been promoted and now oversees her own team of six co-workers. She is […]
Constanze Kurz, Rainer Rehak
Frank is currently working on a health app geared toward patients and sports enthusiasts alike. The finished product will ultimately consist of his app paired with two body sensors. The app itself provides users with film clips and information packaged as a workout program, and it processes sensory input from the […]
Rainer Rehak, Stefan Ullrich
Leo was already looking forward to her year of voluntary service, especially since it would allow her to put her tech know-how to use—as it should. But when the HR manager takes Leo on a tour of the facilities, Leo does something of a double-take: the offices of the IT department […]
Thomas Kittel, Carsten Trinitis
A Bavarian company that develops camera systems and software for video surveillance in public places is expanding its product’s functionality to include the precise localization of various sounds (for example, gunshots) using multiple microphones. A record is made of all the data captured by the microphones.
The data collected is of […]
Constanze Kurz, Debora Weber-Wulff
Herbert, a recently retired data center employee, is waiting impatiently for the letter carrier. Four days ago, he ordered a new laptop from a major mail-order company. Normally, it would only take two or three days for the product to be delivered; Herbert has used the company many times before. After […]
David Zellhöfer, Debora Weber-Wulff
Hans was running a study on the effects of using a well-known anticonvulsant for the treatment of a geriatric condition. He had been able to get 57 patients with various stages of the condition from diverse senior citizen’s homes around the area to participate in the study.
He had […]
Constanze Kurz, Stefan Ullrich
The new startup company “Loose sCrew” specializes in Android apps—small programs for cell phones that make extensive use of the smartphones’ built-in location functions. The company achieved some degree of recognition in its hometown for its citywide scavenger hunt and other virtual terrain games for cell phone users. Its latest product […]
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