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Five Engineering Researchers Awarded Connaught Grants

Winners of the newly revamped Connaught New Researcher Awards, fostering excellence in research and innovation by assistant professors, include five researchers from the Faculty of Applied Science

The Body Electric

Steve Mann (ECE) is attaching electronic devices to his body in his youth. The purpose? To experience a reality that has been technologically mediated. Steve Mann is a cyborg. That is, he’s a human

New York Cyborg Artist Visits Engineering Professor

When New York artist Wafaa Bilal visited Toronto recently, he got together with inventor Steve Mann to compare notes on mounting cameras on their heads. Then they jumped into Mann’s hot tub to play

Managing Disability in the Digital Age

Being able to move and communicate with the world has long been a major hurdle for children living with severe physical disabilities. Thought cognitively capable, they have few ways of expressing

New iPhone App Could Help NHL All-Star Game

As NHLers Eric Staal and Niklas Lidstrom prepare to pick their all-star teammates later this week, a new smart phone application designed for this very purpose is gaining traction around the world.