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Touchwaves specializes in next-generation wearables and haptics solutions.
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- On Thursday 19 November, we’ll be exhibiting at #NEDS2026 in Rotterdam Ahoy, the Netherlands Industries for Defence & Security annual meeting point for the Benelux defence and security community. If you've been following Touchwaves and was wondering how our #haptics actually feel like? At NEDS you can finally get in touch with them, literally. At our stand you can: 📍 Try on our haptic wearable and experience tactile alerts yourself. 📍 Hear how we’re working with air forces and defence partners on pilot and operator safety. 📍
- Most wearables are good at measuring. Far fewer help you act on what they measure. Our Wearable Engineer spoke with Toekomstbehendig Brabant about how Touchwaves turns body data into action. A sensor can detect when a pilot’s oxygen levels drop, but the real value comes when the garment helps them respond, through vibration cues they can feel instantly. Thank you to the Province of Noord-Brabant for sharing our story. Read the full article below. 👇 #DeepTech #Wearables #Brabant #Innovation #HapticTechnology
- The Cockpit of the Future Every generation of cockpit has solved the same problem the same way: put more information in front of the pilot’s eyes and ears. Sixth-generation aircraft break that approach. More sensor fusion. More autonomous wingmen. More data per second. The displays keep improving; the human hasn’t changed. When a warning gets missed, it’s rarely because it wasn’t shown. It’s because there was no capacity left to take it in. At Touchwaves we’ve spent the past year working with aircrew, aeromedical centres and
- Last week the Touchwaves team was at Association of the United States Army - AUSA in Washington, DC. 🇺🇸 Here is what we took away from the US: -Army FUZE: The US Army launched FUZE, its flagship innovation engine for bringing dual-use and commercial technology to soldiers. The aim is to turn concepts into operational prototypes and get them into soldiers’ hands in 70 to 90 days. -Autonomous systems: Defense leaders called for cutting bureaucracy to field autonomous systems faster, with an Autonomous Warfare Command planned by
- Imagine we knew exactly how the brain handles information: which signals get through, which get lost, and when attention tips into overload. At Touchwaves, we would use that to tune every pulse, rhythm and position of our haptic interface so it fits the way people actually think under pressure. We are not there yet - but this week science took a big step forward. The 2026 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for optogenetics. In plain terms, they took a
- Watch our Co-Founder Charlotte Kjellander present Touchwaves at the #EUDIS Business Accelerator, initiated by the European Commission for start-ups developing defence and dual-use technologies with strong deployment potential. Our biggest takeaway is to start from the real problems operators face and collaborate with them when developing our products. The strongest solutions come from understanding what happens in the cockpit, the control station or the field, and building around that. Because when the problem changes, the
- Next week, the Touchwaves team will be at the Association of the United States Army - AUSA in Washington, DC. 🇺🇸 We'll be there to talk about how tactile communication supports operators when cognitive performance degrades under stress, overload, or fatigue. If you work on operator performance or human factors, we'd like to meet. Send us a message to set up a time. #AUSA2026 #Haptics #DefenseTech #HumanPerformance
- Europe has set its defence priorities for 2030. EU leaders have narrowed Europe's list of 22 capability needs down to nine areas, where gaps are most serious and countries gain most by working together: ▪️ Air and missile defence ▪️ Artillery ▪️ Missiles and ammunition ▪️ Drones and counter-drone systems ▪️ Military mobility ▪️ Ground combat ▪️ Maritime capabilities ▪️ Strategic enablers ▪️ AI, quantum, cyber and electronic warfare As these priorities move from policy into projects, most attention will go to hardware: more
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