by Lee Rickwood
The Town of Newmarket is the first in Ontario to introduce a Soofa solar-powered bench that charges mobile devices, bringing technology profiled at President Obama’s inaugural White House Maker Faire to its neighbourhood.
by Lee Rickwood
ecobee is nearing a very significant corporate milestone, and it’s counting up to one million as the number of units sold to a growing community of smart tech users.
by Lee Rickwood
The suspension of an inquiry into the use of cell phone sniffers serves only to avoid the real issues of accountability and transparency about ownership, use or access to surveillance devices by provincial and national police forces.
by Lee Rickwood
A new virtual destination has launched from Canada to help entrepreneurs and tech start-ups no matter where they’re based: locally, nationally or internationally.
by Lee Rickwood
The audience listened to a Bach violin sonata and watched as a computer-generated skeleton mirrored the way violinist was moving her arms, wrists and neck as she played.
by Lee Rickwood
The International Olympic Committee, its Olympic Broadcast Services (OBS) production arm, and the rightsholder here in Canada, CBC/Radio Canada, plan to deliver up to 100 hours of Olympic coverage as live virtual reality (VR) and 360-degree video streams.
by Lee Rickwood
Community leaders and participatory democracy advocates in Rio hope that access to digital data and maps of surrounding neighborhoods will foster more interaction with and suggestions for city government officials.
by Lee Rickwood
The second phase for the project will source content from the public, including individual soldiers, their friends and families. It’s the kind of content to which, with rare exceptions, the rights and copyrights are held by the contributor, and from which the perspective is quite unique and very telling.