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Marketing feature: Augmented reality leaps from big screen to real world
Augmented reality (AR) is a familiar concept to moviegoers. Countless films have featured heroes and villains navigating through a world in which virtual images are superimposed on everything from...
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In era of revelation, privacy more important than ever
In an age in which people are sharing the tiniest details of their lives on Facebook and Twitter — from what they had for lunch to whom they’ve had sex with — it’s hard to believe anyone still values...
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Marketing feature: The history of storytelling
STORYTELLING BY THE CAMPFIRE Language enabled us to share our stories with unprecedented precision. STORYTELLING WITH THE PRINTED WORD The printing press enabled us to share our stories with people...
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Google merges digital and physical worlds with new image-based projects
As a crowd of more than 6,000 developers looked on, a quartet of skydivers sporting futuristic, Web-enabled glasses jumped from a blimp hovering over San Francisco and landed on the roof of Google...
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Marketing Feature: Innovation hubs give startups a critical edge
As director of student innovation at the University of Waterloo and director of its VeloCity program, which is focused on growing Canada’s next crop of entrepreneurs, Mike Kirkup knows how to get a...
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Digital revolution in antiquated health-care industry a major operation
Self-driving cars are almost here It’s a commuter’s dream: Start the car, chuck your briefcase on the passenger seat, sit back and enjoy some tunes and a morning coffee while your ride manoeuvres...
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Marketing Feature: Appetite growing for augmented reality apps, study finds
Augmented reality (AR) apps for mobile devices are poised to grow by leaps and bounds. The latest research indicates that the appetite for these interactive digital applications is on the rise as...
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Augmented reality apps turn smartphones into digital tour guides
It’s the traveller’s curse: You’ve journeyed far from home, and you’re ready to experience all it has to offer. But in this unfamiliar town, street signs look like hieroglyphics, the waiter at the...
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Marketing feature: ‘Contextual’ apps are changing the mobile landscape
Given the power packed in today’s smartphones, it’s no surprise that app usage is exploding. Whether we’re looking for the nearest café or paying our bills, mobile is revolutionizing how we live. But...
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How Microsoft Kinect has inspired ‘the surgeon’s GPS’
Blood-spattered surgeons intent on maintaining operating theatre sterility can hardly be expected to drop everything, strip off their gloves and type madly on a PC to dig up urgent patient data. But...
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Marketing Feature: Augmented reality goes mainstream
You are able see through a brick wall, as if you had suddenly acquired super powers. An illustration in a newspaper comes to life, as if by magic. If you have experienced anything like this of late,...
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Georgie app looks to improve accessibility for visually impaired
TORONTO — Whether it is getting off a bus or reading a menu, a new app aims to make life easier for the blind or visually impaired. Called Georgie, the app for Android devices enables people with...
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Face to face with the ‘human barcode’
Sure, it’s cool and easy to pay for stuff with the wave of a smartphone — but why bother when you could just use your face? Fast-evolving biometric technologies are promising to deliver the most...
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Making a game of global tragedy
MONTREAL — In Frima Studio’s video game Carbon Rush, players are cast as the head of a large multinational fictitiously called the “Power Corporation” and asked if they’re “ready to destroy the world...
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Marketing Feature: Layar turns augmented reality into selling proposition
When the first smartphone with a built-in compass was introduced in 2008, Maarten Lens-FitzGerald knew his dreams for the future of augmented reality (AR) were about to come true. “I saw the...
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Passwords could be a relic of the past if this Intel technology takes off
Passwords for online banking, social networks and email could be replaced with the wave of a hand if prototype technology developed by Intel makes it to tablets and laptops. Aiming to do away with the...
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Facebook agrees to erase facial-recognition data in EU after privacy flap
Facebook Inc. agreed to delete data collected from users within the European Union for its facial-recognition feature by Oct. 15, the Irish privacy regulator said. The owner of the biggest...
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Ousted by Apple, Google plots next mapping coup
Google Inc.’s popular map app got booted from the software bundled with Apple Inc.’s new iPhone 5 — the casualty of an escalating feud between the Silicon Valley heavyweights — but the search company...
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Bringing 3D printing to the masses
TORONTO — Liav Koren hauls his creation onto a table and connects it to his laptop, taps a few buttons and suddenly the squared-off metal arch the size of a bar fridge springs to life. With a...
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New touchscreen BlackBerrys to feature redesigned virtual keyboards: RIM
WATERLOO — For millions of BlackBerry fans, the enduring appeal of Research In Motion Ltd.’s smartphones can be summed up in six letters: QWERTY. Those six letters adorn the buttons located at the top...
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