Perceptiv Labs is on a mission to make drones smarter
If drones are going to take to the skies in the not so distant future, we all need to become amateur pilots or they need to…
Ryerson and Rogers team up to launch The Next Big Idea in sports competition
Canada’s Year of Sport just got bigger. Ryerson and Rogers have embarked on a quest to find the “Next Big Idea in Sport”…
SKE Labs is building a smart world one jar at a time
The Internet of Things (IoT) is real. BI estimates that by 2019, the IoT market will be more than double the size of the smartphone,…
Neptune’s new wearable wants you to quit your smartphone addiction cold turkey
If wearable technology is going to succeed, it will need visionaries who think outside the box and aren’t afraid to make…
Disrupting art with wearable technology
Art is a very subjective thing. As William Shakespeare once said, “there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes…
Google Glass is dead. Long live Google Glass
This isn’t the headline you’d probably expect me to write about Google Glass. At least not lately, with news that Google…
Wearables have gone to the dogs (no, really)
Another year and another CES 2015 over. It was clear from the amount of devices on the showroom floor that this year is going…
Montreal-based Intellitix Launches New Wearable Platform to Create Smart Venues
As consumers are getting more comfortable with wearable technology, we are starting to see some interesting applications at live…
Hands on the Nymi Band Discovery Kit
The Nymi Band is one of the most anticipated wearables of 2015. The wristband, which promises to do away with passwords and…
14 Wearable Tech Predictions for 2015
It’s that time of year: tech predictions! If you thought 2014 was the year of wearable tech, hang on to your connected hats.…
One Year Later: Looking back at the seven Canadian wearable tech companies changing the world
Back in November of last year I introduced seven Canadian wearable tech companies working on technologies that were set to…
Toronto’s PUSH Strength received 2,000 pre-orders for its PUSH Band, online orders now available to all
The last time we checked in with Toronto-based PUSH was back in July when they were beginning to ship devices to its 2,000…
Pebble’s CEO talks how they found success by making ‘the biggest bets of their entire company life’
“Never give up,” was the advice Pebble CEO and founder, Eric Migicovsky, gave to aspiring entrepreneurs at the JOLT Uncensored…
Google Buys Music Streaming Service Songza
Yesterday Songza officially announced that they were now part of the Google team after weeks of rumors of the potential acquisition.…
Recent Waterloo Visit Sees Prime Minister Harper Interact with Thalmic Labs and its “Myo” Armband
It looks like even the Prime Minister himself couldn’t wait to get a glimpse of the Myo. Prime Minister Stephen Harper…