"Armband of Awesome": Thalmic Labs covered in Discovery Channel's Daily Planet

Submitted by thenext36
on Mon, 03/04/2013 - 09:29

*Video segment posted by Discovery Channel on February 26th, 2013

"Armband of Awesome"

Since last week, N36 Alumni Stephen Lake and his venture Thalmic Labs have recieved a lot of buzz after releasing their new motion/gesture technology, MYO.

Watch the latest brief about the MYO on Discovery Channel

 

Waterloo’s Thalmic Labs announces MYO, the motion tracking armband

Submitted by thenext36
on Wed, 02/27/2013 - 12:11

Published in The Financial Post on February 25th, 2013

By Matthew Braga

Following the success of Nintendo Co. Ltd’s Wii and Microsoft Corp.’s Kinect, Waterloo-based startup Thalmic Labs Inc. is releasing a consumer-friendly device with motion and gesture controls of its own.

Read the full article here

Canadians Continue to Disrupt the "HR" Process - Kira Talent

Submitted by thenext36
on Wed, 02/27/2013 - 10:01

Published on Impact People Practices.com on February 27, 2013

By Christine McLeod

Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to see fresh options that take “HR process”, give it a shake and take it up a notch.

Well, there is ONE thing that gives me greater pleasure than that. Seeing that the company is CANADIAN!

Enter Kira Talent

Read the full article here

Two Canadian Tech Entrepreneurs Launch The Chic Geek to Increase Diversity in Startups

Submitted by thenext36
on Mon, 02/25/2013 - 16:28

published by TechVibes on February 19, 2013

*great article featuring N36 Alum Morgan Moe and her new venture The Chic Geek

Two Calgarian tech entrepreneurs, Kylie Toh and Morgan Moe, have launched The Chic Geek, a community-driven grassroots organization designed to increase diversity in the high-tech and startup communities by educating, engaging and empowering women.

read the full article here

N36 Alumnus Stephen Lake Continues Innovating with Thalmic Labs

Submitted by thenext36
on Mon, 02/25/2013 - 16:21

published by TechCrunch on February 25, 2013

Y Combinator-Backed Thalmic Introduces MYO, A $149 Armband For Gesture Control

As stuff like Google Glass becomes mainstream, we’re going to see a lot more wearable computing devices around. But one thing that isn’t clear is how we’ll control them. One idea is to use gesture control, which would enable users to communicate with wearable computers without having to use a whole separate smartphone or other device to do so.

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