Here’s a look at some hardware and software for the DVD medium. Game Wave from Zapit Games, stand-alone unit, $110.99. The interactive DVD “set-top” game has been updated with help from this slick digital video station, which enables up to six contestants to use their own controllers and challenge one another in a virtual game…
According to a 2009 Labour Force Survey by Statistics Canada, over the last 10 years, 98.5 per cent of all new jobs in Canada were created by firms under 100 employees and almost 60 per cent of those jobs were created by firms with fewer than five employees. Those who have set up successful small…
Toronto, Ontario, May 14, 2012 – Attendees at Discovery 12, will have a chance to touch and be touched by ShadowSense™, a new Canadian-born technology. Nytric™ and its sister company Baanto™, makers of the world’s largest and most intuitive multi-touch screen technology, will showcase this revolutionary touchscreen experience at the Discovery 12 Conference and Showcase…
Special to Financial Post – Mar 13, 2012, 1:55 PM ET By Av Utukuri While 90% of patents are improvements on existing inventions, legal realities can make filing for such patents complicated because intellectual property law is designed to protect existing patent holders. If the invention you are adding something to is one to which you…
Special to Financial Post – Feb 7, 2012, 6:05 AM ET Patenting your invention is the best way to prevent others from copying it, allowing you to recover the costs of R&D, manufacturing and marketing. If your invention is complex, it will require such protection, but it’s also important to file a patent if your product…
Special to Financial Post – Dec. 6, 2011 – 6:20 AM ET In the court of law, ideas are free, execution is priceless There are two aspects of an invention: the first is the idea, the second is the implementation. If you suspect somebody has stolen your idea, the first thing to discover is what…
Special to Financial Post – Oct 4, 2011 – 6:05 AM ET There’s no easy way to know if your idea will succeed Some of the wackiest business ideas surprisingly succeed, whilst some apparently serious, and on the surface amazing, ideas miserably fail.
Andy Holloway Oct 4, 2011 – 6:35 AM ET Canada isn’t known for being a nation of entrepreneurial risk-takers despite years of government hand-wringing, yet we still have one of the world’s best developed economies. Should we care we’re not as productive as we could be?
IBC/AMSTERDAM, (9th September, 2011) –Developed exclusively for Christie® MicroTiles™, and following the success encountered at InfoComm 2011 by the ‘Graffiti Wall’, Christie will be demonstrating a unique “Touch Environment” solution at IBC to show how interactive multi-touch can be used to bring a new dimension to sports commentary in a broadcast studio set concept. The…
ShadowSense to open up new possibilities for software developers and consumers. SID Display Week, Los Angeles, May 2011 – Nytric Ltd., a leading Canadian innovations company, unveils its latest touchscreen technology at SID booth #1443. Developed for Nytric’s client Baanto, an independent manufacturer of touchscreen and position-sensing technologies and products, the new ShadowSense™ E Series…