U.A.E A new addition to MENA's hardware facelift When Prashant Gulati (also known as PK) was 10 he asked his father for a carpenter’s kit. In those days child-friendly kits wouldn’t hav... Pamela Kesrouani • 06 September, 2015 The Assembly MEMakers Maker space
U.A.E UAE creates future female robotics entrepreneurs The UAE could produce MENA’s next wave of female robotics and hardware entrepreneurs, as technology programs throughout the Emirates... Maysaa Ajjan • 11 August, 2015 robotics uae abu dhabi
Egypt Printing money: Spear Ink’s e-waste ambitions E-waste is a mushrooming scourge of the technology revolution with up to 50 million tons of electronic rubbish generated annually -... Rachel Williamson • 30 July, 2015 printer cartridge spear ink MEMakers
Global Connecting the world, one car at a time Google’s driverless cars have been pootling staff around for nearly five years, but the man on the street is still waiting. What... Lucy Knight • 20 July, 2015 Dialexa Labs Vinli Connected Cars
Regional Supercharging the new energy order [part 2] This year the world is abuzz with the word 'batteries', as Tesla releases its wall-mounted storage device for the home and the... Rachel Williamson • 19 July, 2015 batteries energy24 renewable energy
Regional MENA’s robot revolution The Terminator would be one lonely android in MENA. Few industries in the region use advanced robotics in their processes and artificial... Rachel Williamson • 07 July, 2015 seed robotics pal robotics eg robotics
Egypt CORD's robot fights teach old physics in a new way My Reaper Robot vs. your Crazy Minion: who will win? It depends, says Mohammed ElRaffie, founder of educational science startup CORD, on... Rachel Williamson • 28 June, 2015 robots cord
Global Littlebits makes big in $44.2M funding round Littlebits, the open source hardware startup from Lebanese founder Ayah Bdeir, has raised over $44 million in what they say is one of the... Lucy Knight • 29 June, 2015 MEMakers littlebits Electronics
Palestine Tiny package, quick power: Palestinian startup crowdfunding phone battery solution A nifty charger that won't weigh you down. (Images via BOLD Gadget) As technology still lags behind the growing demand for longer... Rachel Williamson • 26 May, 2015 portable battery Knot BOLD Gadget
U.A.E Productivity app wins AngelHack Dubai 2015 Bring your laptops, hardware, creativity, perseverance and create. (Images via AngelHack Dubai 2015) More than 70 hackers, coders and... Antoine Abou-Diwan • 17 May, 2015 AngelHack Dubai 2015
Jordan Health monitoring device takes first place at Amman’s Maker Hackathon Attendees experiment with littleBits while developing preliminary prototype designs. (Images via Dina Al Zubi) A health-monitoring... Melanie Butcher • 03 March, 2015 amman Healthcare Medical
U.A.E Bright future for drones industry on display at UAE contest The winning, Swiss, team. (Image via Drones for Good) Dubai Internet City was buzzing with the sounds of drones this week at the inaugural... Sushmitha Pidatala • 12 February, 2015 Unmanned aerial vehicle UAV Drones for good
Egypt Proposed Egypt technology park facing bureaucratic delays Big plans to create a technology and entrepreneurial hub in the southern Cairo suburb of Maadi could be stalling, for which some are... Rachel Williamson • 28 January, 2015 maadi technology park Hardware Egypt
Lebanon Innovation fills the prescription: 6 tips on building a wearable from CardioDiagnostics Most of the entrepreneurial activity in the region focuses on ecommerce or online services, and software development and services... Stephanie Nour Prince • 25 November, 2014 CardioDiagnostics Beirut Digital District Wearable devices
Egypt Egypt's wearables developers hopeful in the face of hardship The global wearable technology sector is already a multi-billion dollar industry. Yet Egypt is lagging behind in the race to create an... Rachel Williamson • 08 October, 2014 mubster google glass Wearable devices
U.A.E Sleek smoke alarm chirps its way to Dubai (and funding) An elderly woman using a gas stove to heat her home right after Hurricane Katrina sounds like a recipe for disaster. But in the aftermath... Lucy Knight • 25 September, 2014 birdi smartlivingcity dubai
U.A.E TechForum Dubai: how will wearables impact our daily lives? Organizers of the 16th TechForum, held on September 16 at Dubai Silicon Oasis in partnership with the Emirati telecom Etisalat,... Pamela Kesrouani • 24 September, 2014 Dubai Silicon Oasis Techforum Wearable devices
Jordan Jordanian serial entrepreneur pivots from selling gadgets to 3D printing his own Loay Malahmeh is becoming what he never thought he would be – a serial entrepreneur. From TickyTacky.me to 3Dmena, the Jordanian e... Robert Carroll • 17 September, 2014 tickytacky 3d printing 3dmena
Could this Tunisian connected home device challenge Google's Nest? Tunisian entrepreneurs don’t seem to run short of ambition; Chifco is just more proof (others can be f... Aline Mayard • 16 September, 2014 CONNECTED HOME Chifco connected devices
Bahrain Bahrain women win innovation award at 2014 Microsoft Imagine Cup [Wamda TV] Every year since 2003, the Microsoft Imagine Cup has invited student teams from around the world to compete for gold and glory, while... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 10 September, 2014 microsoft imagine cup microsoft Bahrain
Young Lebanese innovators honored by MIT, confirms a growing trend Update: Wamda has just learned that a third Lebanese, entrepreneur Rand Hindi, was also included in the MIT list (editors were... Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 25 August, 2014 littlebits MIT
Fresh off Kickstarter glory, Integreight gears up for 1Sheeld due date $85,210 USD. That’s how much funding the Egypt-based startup Integreight attracted for its award-winning product 1Sheeld during its 30-day ... Hayden Pirkle • 10 April, 2014 1sheeld arduino Hardware
Students develop first Egyptian Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle (ROV) for undersea exploration Given the rising global demand for equipment to explore and exploit oil resources at sea, there’s been a global boom in the m... Eman Mostafa • 11 March, 2014 Hardware
Egyptian surgeon turns his passion for driftwood into a business “My passion for wood is something I’ve had for as long as I can remember, and I’ve been making small projects since I was seven,” says Shah... Ahmed Gabr • 29 January, 2014 Hardware Handicrafts Egypt