Digital Medicine and the Healthcare Industry: It’s Complicated
The tricorder is no longer just a Trekkie’s thing, as fellow BetaKit writer Tom Emrich found out last week. Digital medicine…
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Is TellSpec The Star Trek Tricorder We Have Been Waiting For?
One of my favorite internet memes is one that says Star Trek has been predicting the future since 1966. And perhaps it’s…
Thalmic Labs Awarded One of Ten Breakthrough Awards from Popular Mechanics
Every once in a while a product is invented that changes our lives. Amazon’s Kindle, Apple’s iPhone and Microsoft’s Kinect…
PUSH Wants to Measure Strength, Not Steps
Toronto-based startup PUSH wants to be the first fitness tracking device that measures strength not steps. The device is designed…
Is Canada Experiencing A Renaissance for Hardware Startups?
Following the aftermath of BlackBerry’s agreement to a tentative offer from FairFax Financial Holdings (and the inevitable…
The Opera of the Future: My Virtual Dream
Artistic expression took on a whole new meaning this Saturday at Toronto’s Nuit Blanche as one exhibit used the audience’s…
New Toronto Mobile Payments Startup Wi-Py is the Free PayPal Alternative
Don’t feel like paying PayPal’s annoying transaction fees? One Toronto-based startup is launching today and wants…
Can Toronto-based Kiwi Wearables Do for Wearables What Apple Did For Smartphones?
Kiwi Wearables isn’t interested in just building the next fitness tracker, health monitor or home automation tool. They actually…
SDTC Invests $39.8 Million in Quebec Cleantech Project
While Cleantech projects typically scare off traditional startup seed VC funds because of the amount of money needed, it is…
Half of Canadian Consumers Would Switch Doctors If It Meant Access to E-Records
Viva accessible medical e-records! Viva transparency in patient files! That’s what over half of surveyed Canadian consumers…
PayMint and MovieTickle Win MasterCard NXT Developer Challenge, Each Takes Home $10,000
The winners of the MasterCard NXT Developer Challenge were announced yesterday evening after 20 teams of developers had coded…
Check Out Some of These Ideas from Mastercard’s NXT Developer Challenge
Update: The two “student” teams heading to the semifinals are “The Coyotes” and “Paymint”,…
MasterCard’s NXT Developer Challenge Is Underway in Toronto
The MasterCard NXT Developer Challenge is lively and underway at MaRS Discovery District in Toronto. Scores of laptop wielding…
These Three Tech Visionaries Will Make You Proud To Be Canadian
I’ve just witnessed the future and let me tell you, it is going to blow your mind. It’s a future where circuit-filled blankets…
Rogers Partners With Sprint to Bring Connected Cars to Canada
Get ready for some distracted driving Canucks. Major carriers Rogers and Sprint announced a partnership to bring the connected…