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Knitt Labs launches KnittBar, raises $50,000 on Kickstarter in six days
UTEST graduate company building a versatile, smart, modular power bar
We've all been there: You reach over behind your TV to plug in yet another device to find your power bar’s out of available outlets. You wonder why your electricity bill’s so high and want to know which appliance is the culprit. You forget to turn something off (or did you?) and you’re already halfway to a meeting.
Knitt Labs, Inc. has developed KnittBar to solve these frustrating problems for those who are ...
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MaRS Innovation: Ahead of Innovation video launched
To coincide with our presence at the 2016 BIO International Convention (BIO) from June 6-9, 2016, MaRS Innovation launched a video explaining our role in Canada's innovation ecosystem: backing big thinkers with bold ideas and working with them to take those breakthroughs to market.
This year, BIO takes place in San Francisco, California, the birthplace of biotech. MaRS Innovation will be present in the Ontario Pavilion (Booth #5944) in partnership with the Ontario Government and Life Sciences Ontario.
Both the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Canada's ...
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Video: DashMD’s CEO and co-founder interviewed by Dx3 Canada
Amber Mac from Dx3 Canada interviewed Zack Fisch, CEO and co-founder of DashMD. In the video, Zack discusses DashMD's vision for a better healthcare system and what the company is doing in order to improve the discharge process for patients.
About DashMD
Dash MD seeks to improve the quality of healthcare by providing patients with the necessary tools, information, and resources that they need to successfully traverse their own personal and individualized road to recovery. Their Patient Engagement Platform will be downloadable to patients in ...
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Miroculus acquires Kapplex to advance diagnostics for complex diseases
Canadian innovation will give patients affordable, non-invasive, accurate test for cancer or infectious diseases; R&D team to remain in Toronto discovery district
TORONTO and SAN FRANCISCO (May 3, 2016) — Miroculus, a San Francisco-based biotechnology company specializing in microRNA-based diagnostics, today announced an agreement to acquire Toronto-based Kapplex Inc. The Canadian company’s proprietary Digital Microfluidic (DMF) platform is built upon the research of Dr. Aaron Wheeler, a world-leader in microfluidics research at the University of Toronto.
This announcement was covered in GenomeWeb and PeHub.
When ...
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MI’s Joel Liederman on CanadaAM to talk product development
Joel Liederman, vice-president of Physical Sciences, appeared on CanadaAM April 5, 2016 to talk about how to make a product. The interview is part of CanadaAM's "What's Next" segment on technology and entrepreneurship.
He and host Beverly Thomson discussed the process for moving from a napkin to a prototype to a market-ready product, including market testing, prototyping, soliciting more customer feedback, and eventually product launch.
"Marketing a product is a lot easier now than it used to be," said Liederman. "In the ...
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The Real Pinocchio Effect
TED speaker’s company is changing the technology of emotion and lie detection
Consumer-facing market research studies require a group of people, a product or service for them to experience, and methodology to collect and analyze their feedback. For companies requesting consumer insight to influence a product’s attributes, packaging or promotion, accurate information can make the difference between success and failure.
The catch? The best market research exercises can’t consistently determine when people lie. Well-intentioned subjects may do so to please the interviewer, lie ...
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Onyx Motion signs NBA’s Ben Gordon and launches Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign
Former Orlando Magic player new innovation director for basketball smartwatch app
This article is republished with the kind permission of Brianna Goldberg and our friends at U of T News.
UTEST company Onyx Motion has partnered with NBA shooting guard Ben Gordon to raise the calibre of digital basketball coaching offered by the company’s first-of-its-kind technology, a smartwatch app that offers on-court skills guidance. The company announced Gordon’s role in helping to further develop the app, called Swish, on July 8 when launching ...
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Onyx Motion to appear on NextGenDen, web-based Dragon’s Den CBC show for mobile and Internet companies
UTEST company Onyx Motion, makers of an Android wear app called Swish that provides digital coaching for sports like basketball, will appear on CBC's NextGenDen.
UPDATED! You can watch the Onyx Motion/Swish episode here (jump to the 6:15 mark).
The online web series seeks to take the popular Dragon's Den model to Internet- and mobile-focused companies and features a new panel of dragons: Michael Hyatt, Michelle Romanow, Paul Miklas and Matthew Corrin.
Onyx Motion, led by CEO Marissa Wu and CTO Vivek Kesarwani, will ...
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BioDiaspora founder appears on CBC’s “The National” to discuss the Ebola crisis
Dr. Kamran Khan, founder of BioDiaspora, appeared on CBC's "The National" on September 23, 2014, as part of a health panel examining the current state of the Ebola outbreak in west Africa.
CBC anchor Peter Mansbridge hosted the discussion.
Watch the clip on CBC's website.
BioDiaspora, spun off from St. Michael's Hospital in partnership with MaRS Innovation, developed an easy-to-access, web-based solution that generates and communicates customized, actionable intelligence about global infectious disease threats in real-time.
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Minuum launches iOS 8 keyboard, expanding product to Apple users
Whirlscape, a graduate of the UTEST program's first cohort (co-managed by MaRS Innovation and the University of Toronto), has launched their little keyboard for big fingers to Apple users.
The software, released to coincide with Apple's iOS 8 launch, is part of Whirlscape's larger efforts to develop typing solutions for wearable devices, including smartwatches, Google Glass and other applications.
The Minuum product launch for iOS was covered in TechCrunch, The Next Web and Mobile Syrup, among other tech blogs, and was mentioned in ...
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