Myo now available on Amazon as Thalmic ships 100% of pre-orders
When last we checked in with Kitchener-Waterloo based Thalmic Labs, co-founder Stephen Lake said the company had shipped 24%…
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Intel’s fashion-first approach to wearable tech: an interview with Ayse Ildeniz
More than the waves of technology before it, wearables face a fashion problem that has become a major barrier to adoption.…
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”…
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…
Women and Wearables: the jockstrap sports bra stage (#WWTO)
This week, 500 wearable fanatics descended upon the MaRS Discovery District to attend the latest We Are Wearables Toronto meetup.…
From laggard to leader through tech: commercial real estate and Colliers
When it comes to being a technology leader, the commercial real estate industry is rarely in the conversation. Despite its…
Tomorrow’s We Are Wearables panel tackles “Wearables for Women”
We Are Wearables, one of the world’s biggest wearables communities, is holding its monthly Toronto event tomorrow in…
Pebble has now sold 1 million smartwatches
Pebble’s long replacement cycle has been unlike anything we’ve seen in the wearables space thus far. First announced…
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…
Montreal smart garment startup Heddoko selected Innovation World Cup Finalist
Montreal-based smart garment startup Heddoko is headed to Munich next week to vie for the title of “Innovator of the…
Nymi CEO Karl Martin: departures “logical progression” from new enterprise customer focus
Yesterday, we reported that Nymi President, Andrew D’Souza, and Director of Platform, Balaji Gopalan, were no longer with…
Nymi President Andrew D’Souza out as company struggles to ship
BetaKit has confirmed via multiple sources familiar with the situation that Nymi President Andrew D’Souza is no longer a…
Medella Health is in the right place at the right time
It’s not easy being a wearable hardware startup. It’s also hard being an impact health tech startup. Now, a wearable health…
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…