Music is, traditionally, an auditory art form. But at REIFY, music is taking on another form entirely and making its debut in the physical and virtual realities. REIFY turns music into interactive multimedia experiences you can hear, see and hold. … Continue reading Startup Spotlight: See, Hear and Hold Music with REIFY
Soundbrenner Pulse is the world’s first wearable metronome, designed to help musicians keep time through haptic feedback that lets you literally feel the music. Its powerful companion app allows you to synchronize your Pulse with other musicians so you’re all playing … Continue reading Startup Spotlight: Feel the Beat, Literally, with Soundbrenner Pulse
Apple Watch lets you send your heartbeat to your friends, but this wearable actually does something useful with it. If you’re like me, you have more passwords and logins than you can remember. If you’re on top of things, you’ve … Continue reading Startup Spotlight: Nymi, the Wearable that Listens to Your Heart
One of the biggest challenges of designing health-focused wearables is making sure that people want to wear them for their looks as much as for their functionality. Fitbit and Jawbone are not known for their style factor – in fact, … Continue reading Startup Spotlight: Ear-O-Smart Smart Earrings
Eat your heart out Lululemon, SmartMat is about to make personal yoga practices so much better. With 22 days left in its crowdfunding campaign, SmartMat has already raised 248% of its $110,000 goal. Soon to be a member of the … Continue reading Startup Spotlight: How SmartMat Will Change Yoga Forever
This is the information age. We as a society consume information at a faster rate than at any other time in known history, and it’s become … Continue reading Startup Spotlight: MeU, a Versatile Wearable Display
Heddoko, the first product from Montreal startup of the same name, is a smart compression undergarment that tracks your movement and visualizes your body in 3D in order to provide you with live training feedback and guide you towards optimal physical … Continue reading Startup Spotlight: Heddoko, the Personal Trainer Undergarment
As the cold weather creeps in and wintry days loom closer, layering will come into style then fade into more of a necessity than a fashion statement. Especially for us Canadians who have to endure the harsh winters of the north, keeping body heat up in the outdoors is an important part of a happy winter season. This means always having a thick jacket and woolly scarf on hand for when you make the transition from toasty ski lodge to frigid slopes – but what if your clothes could regulate your body temperature for you, without you having to constantly … Continue reading FuelWear, the First Smart Heated Undergarment
Breaking alert: the fashion industry is no longer an old boys’ club. Though fashion houses still define much of the trends, they no longer have autonomy over what becomes successful and gets sold or worn by the masses. The voracious … Continue reading Celebrate Fashion, Tech and Business at the World’s First Startup Fashion Week
A lot can be characterized in a city’s colour palette. Halifax is all blues, the sky and sea sharing between them the spectrum of cool shades. A certain Brooklyn neighbourhood called Red Hook shares these beautiful blues – just look … Continue reading Encoded City
