L’Atelier Vancouver Coworking not only provides a space for the city’s freelancers and entrepreneurs to get stuff done, but also welcomes them to a community of creative people: you may be working solo, but you don’t have to be alone. …

It’s tough for a city to change. The weight of history and the inertia of status quo can gang up on you and seem insurmountable. In spite of this, two cities have boldly began to reinvent themselves by leveraging the power of infrastructure, with immediately positive results. These two cities…

Katia Cánepa Vega works at the intersection of beauty and interactive technology, and she’s building a future for the Internet of Things that isn’t lame and useless. With a PhD and Master’s in Computer Science, Vega mixes the cosmetics counter with the Batcave. RFID-embedded fingernails mean your purse isn’t bulked…

Adding robotics to the science of cocktails Robot bartenders are not a new phenomenon, but they’re rare enough that receiving a cocktail from one is still a special occasion. iREX in Tokyo tends to feature a beerbot or two, dispensing clinically-correct pints of lager on command. Some cruise ships feature what look like scaled-down car-building robots that…

Last month, a frustrated Tesla driver found himself unable to charge his car, because other Tesla drivers were hogging the Supercharger stations while running errands and sipping coffee. So he fired off a tweet to Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Twenty minutes later, the Tesla founder and CEO responded: …

Over a thousand years ago, the Vikings brought sheep to the edge of the world, a land of impossible beauty and unforgiving elemental forces. Before too long, Icelandic people were wearing warm and comfy wool, while the sheep sported full-body five-o’clock shadows. Icelandic sheep grow a unique type of wool…

Rock legend and Nobel laureate Bob Dylan said it best: the times, they are a-changin’. As its name suggests, Elastic Path doesn’t just help your company handle the average Black Friday madness — this enterprise e-commerce software provider gets you ready for the evolution of how business gets done around…

On November 22, the most innovative companies in the country will gather in Toronto for the Canadian Innovation Exchange to share how they’re changing the way we live, work, and play. We’ve got artificially-intelligent recording studio software, a time-lapse camera you operate with a single button, a conversational banking bot…

Axiom Zen is an innovation lab whose products and software have been used all over the world… and beyond. While you may have gotten addicted to the company’s sugar-skull puzzle game on your phone, Axiom Zen’s ZenHub project management software helps NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory put robots on Mars more…