About Lee Rickwood
Lee Rickwood covers developments in media and technology with particular interest in how such developments affect our social, political and economic activities and interactions.
by Lee Rickwood
Sometimes the most important life skills and learned abilities are gained outside the classroom, not inside, and as such they may not appear on a student’s academic grade report.
by Lee Rickwood
A lot of today’s VR experiences are fictional, dramatic, even fantastical in their role play opportunities. But this is not a VR game, and it’s not a first-person shoot ‘em up: it’s a techno-enabled investigation of actual history and real culture.
by Lee Rickwood
It’s not just legitimate sales that are being lost to counterfeit goods, but national and local tax revenues, above-board employment and job opportunities, even customer health and safety, according to the Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Network.
by Lee Rickwood
Yes, even Christmas lights themselves – accessed through a connected smartphone and mobile app – can compromise your online safety, security and privacy.
by Lee Rickwood
A Toronto-based company has developed a high-tech surgical planning platform that combines navigation, visualization and informatics tools in an integrated system that’s used before, during and after surgery.
by Lee Rickwood
Not all of the gadgets they will describe during a week of shows next week are available for purchase right now; some are more like inspirational ideas and teasers to the shape of tech things to come. Some are designed by major manufacturers to address real world problems; some are just fun ideas from imaginative inventors.
by Lee Rickwood
goTenna Mesh works independently, and you do not need the usual wireless network services. It generates its own independent long-range radio waves, and that means users have a private and a secure way to communicate.
by Lee Rickwood
The processing power of the cloud allows for predictive prevention, in which collected data and powerful algorithms are combined to the predict places and times where crimes are most likely to occur.