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500 TukTuks expands to food in disruption hunt
Business, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 29/10/2018
» Following investing in fintech, logistics and property tech, 500 TukTuks is expanding its portfolio to food tech to capitalise on what is expected to be a US$10-billion (331 billion baht) market in Southeast Asia by 2022.
A home-grown coding toy
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 13/06/2018
» Tassagorn Sirisuwan, 12, first experienced a KidBright digital board when his father's friends brought it to the workshop for kids at his home a few months ago. Since then, the boy has always worked on the board, designing simple computer programs to control home appliances.
Creating a buzz
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 28/03/2018
» A team of computer engineering students from King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) won Imagine Cup Thailand 2018, the Thai leg of a global competition that promotes tech-creativity in young people.
Thailand looks to make mark at IoT fair
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 12/07/2017
» A group of veteran researchers from the National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre will be introducing to the Asean maker community their emerging and innovative platform, NETPIE, for the first time at the Maker Faire Singapore 2017, which sets to take place next week.
King Bhumibol's farm house as projected display
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 03/05/2017
» For those who have never been to the Chang Hua Man Royal Project, in the Tha Yang district of Petchaburi, the main exhibition -- "Architect Of The Land", on display at the Architect Expo at Impact Muang Thong Thani until Sunday -- is undoubtedly worth a visit.
Thank the maker
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 10/02/2016
» In Chiang Mai on the last weekend of January, Thai makers gathered to share ideas and discuss how creativity can benefit local innovators and inventors in the digital era. The maker space movement is international; the term refers to groups of people who have a passion for innovation and creation through IT and digital tinkering — a high-tech DIY community, working on hardware or software, enabled by cheaper technology such as 3D printing, and home-grown enthusiasm.
Going Digital
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 21/10/2015
» After four months in an intensive workshop, local start-ups showed their innovative talents, pitching ideas that can solve business pains to judges and top venture capitalists from around the world at last week's dtac Accelerate Batch 3.
Fields of alternative dreams
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 23/09/2015
» Thanks to the Agricultural Data Integration and Zoning Optimisation Model (Adizom), farmers in Kamphaeng Phet know what kind of alternative crops they should grow as a substitute for rice and how much they will gain and lose in these times of unpredictable weather conditions.
They've got game
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 05/08/2015
» Game Casters are online celebrities who inhabit unique pockets of YouTube — "pockets" may not sound large enough when the most popular of them has 38 million followers. To "cast game", as the activity is known, is for these people to play through a video game (say, Minecraft) accompanied by humorous, irreverent and sometimes swear-ridden commentary, and their whole subjective experiences are recorded and broadcast on YouTube channels for their fans to watch.
Sowing the seeds of technology
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 25/02/2015
» Mobile phones have the potential to narrow the gap between farming and technology, thanks to new mobile application, Len-Din (literally "play with soil"). Inspired by the prospect of food shortages, the team of students from a number of Thai universities developed the application, with an aim of improving soil management and planting techniques.