Engineering

Sometime in the 23rd century, a Starfleet Academy instructor leads a class of red shirts across the terrain of an alien world and speaks...

The customized kicks made for Olympic superstar Michael Phelps offer a glimpse into the future of personalized 3D apparel production. Under Armour used 3D technology...

A collaboration between Microsoft and the Institute of Botany at the Chinese Science Academy could lead to a smartphone app that identifies flowers from a photo.

On June 2 the Canadian Printable Electronics Industry Association (CPEIA) and the Ottawa section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)...

Canadians dreaming of a future Hyperloop system that will shoot them across the 500 km from Toronto to Montreal in less than an hour...

William Yong is exploring the relationship between human movement and technology in a 60-minute solo contemporary dance piece called Steer. Yong is the founder...

If the scientists, designers, and engineers behind printable, flexible, and wearable electronics want to move their industry forward, they need to approach the development...

A Toronto-based company that announced a deal last fall with Shop.ca to provide drone deliveries to its ecommerce customers says while current government legislation...

For many readers, the Xerox Research Centre of Canada (XRCC)'s very existence will come as a revelation - a 3D-printing fuelled reinvention of a...

Toronto Mayor John Tory painted a picture of Toronto as a startup that prizes diversity as its key differentiator in the innovation space, according...

When Frederic Chanay cofounded smart textiles manufacturer OmSignal with his business partner Stephane Marceau in 2011, his goal echoed the ideals of many a...

The Hyperloop - Elon Musk's concept in which high-speed pods carry passengers between cities - could be brought one step closer to reality by a group of University...

3D printing bionics firm Wiivv Wearables has released a custom 3D-printed insole for what it calls "industrial athletes" - workers such as nurses, servers, baristas and security guards who spend the majority of the day on their feet. The inserts are created using five photos from a smartphone camera, and being marketed in a socially responsible way including a "buy two, give one" promotion.

When Thalmic Labs made the decision to go open source with its Myo arm band, it probably never imagined that doing so would lead...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped into Google Canada's new Kitchener, Ont.-based office for a morning of playing with 3D printers, leading students on a...