Global Surveillance System Moves to the Cloud in Fight Against Infectious Diseases
by Lee Rickwood
Innovative made-in-Canada technologies are now available to quickly identify the molecules, pathogens and symptoms of infectious disease activity.
Tag: health
Wearables, Smart Textiles and Flexible Electronics Gain Support in Canada
by Lee Rickwood
At a tech industry event being staged in Toronto, more than a dozen product developers and exhibitors are showing off wearables with a difference.
Reviewing the Lifebeam Vi personal trainer headphones
By Ted Kritsonis
The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) can make for interesting use cases, like with Lifebeam’s Vi headphones, which try hard to be a virtual fitness motivator.
Privacy Gets a Workout from Wearable Devices, Health and Fitness Apps
by Lee Rickwood
New devices will evaluate your sweat with electric signals that measure and detect things like glucose, lactate, sodium and potassium levels, and the capabilities are but a short step away from tracking a user’s emotional as well as physical health.
Canadian Technology and Innovation Award Winners Tackle Healthcare, Education
by Lee Rickwood
The awards are meant to inspire us all to embrace innovation, and to celebrate those entrepreneurs who use technology to solve problems in sectors like healthcare and education.
Brain Surgery Solution Brings Canadian High Tech Company Life Science Award
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.
Reviewing the Netatmo Healthy Home Coach
By Ted Kritsonis
Indoor air quality is sometimes worse than the pollution typically found outdoors, but it’s not always easy to tell that something toxic is permeating in a room. French manufacturer Netatmo new product in the Healthy Home Coach functions purely to alert consumers on what kind of bliss or squalor they’re breathing in on a daily basis.
The Sounds of Science: Music, Medicine and Technology Mash-Up
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.