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Child using Comhandi

Engineering & Technology

The Comhandi: a Voice for the Voiceless

There was a time in Canadian History when people mute by paralysis were neglected, and their capacity for communication barely considered by the rest of society. In the 1960’s this mindset was swept aside with the invention of the Comhandi, an electronic letter-board designed as a tool for children with motor impairments. The Comhandi would allow kids suffering from disorders like nonverbal cerebral palsy to have their voices heard through their inputs on the keys. This way they could

Roland Galarneau, inventor of the Converto-Braille.

Engineering & Technology

Writing in braille was made easy by the Converto-Braille

Sight is something that many of us take for granted. It’s unlikely that you’ll come across things written in braille all that often. Although braille is still relatively uncommon, there was a time when it’d be near impossible for people that were visually impaired to find reading material. That was until the invention of the Converto-Braille, a braille printer designed by Roland Galarneau, a self-taught machinist from Hull, Quebec. Galarneau was visually impaired so he knew firsthand how little

Image of child rock climbing outside

Engineering & Technology

Patch up and protect against the sun

Parents are always in a frenzy to make sure their kids are caked in sunscreen in order to protect them during the blaze of a Canadian summer. This way they’re always one step ahead of ultra-violet rays trying to get through. Nanotechnology students at the University of Waterloo had the same concern, so they found a way to literally see when it’s time reapply sunblock. They started a company called Suncayr, and their flagship product is the Spot. It looks like a regular patch, to the uninformed

Medella Health smart contact lens that monitors glucose levels for people with diabetes

Health & Wellness

Waterloo project wins top honours in Dyson competition

University of Waterloo

James Dyson says Medella Health’s smart contact lens shows how good design and engineering can improve lives. A smart contact lens that monitors glucose levels captured one of two international runner-up awards in the 2016 James Dyson Award competition, the third University of Waterloo student project to win a top prize in three years. Medella Health, co-founded in 2013 by Huayi Gao, a Waterloo nanotechnology engineering graduate, Waterloo science graduate Maarij Baig, and Harry Gandhi, who

Daniel David Palmer, the Father of Chiropractic

Health & Wellness

A Canadian Invented Chiropractic Care

Janis Nostbakken

Look up the word “chiropractic” in a dictionary and you might think it was a form of medicine practiced in ancient Greece. Not so, at least not by that name. The word does come from the Greek (cheir “hand” + praktikos “practical”), but it was a Canadian who invented it. Daniel David (D.D.) Palmer was born in Port Perry, Canada West (now Ontario) in 1845. By the time he was 20, D.D. had emigrated to the U.S. where he first encountered a “magnetic healer,” one who claimed to cure illness by

Teenage inventors

Teen could bring clean water to millions

Rachel Brouwer is featured in Innovation150’s national public awareness campaign. Learn more. Rachel Brouwer isn’t old enough to drive, but she’s got her own billboard, her own Wikipedia page, and an asteroid named after her. The asteroid dedication – in addition to a $1,500 prize – was for coming in second at the 2016 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair after winning a gold medal at the 2015 Canada-Wide Science Fair. It’s all because of an invention of Brouwer’s that could provide

New age 21 century wedge free wood/log splitter

New age 21 century wedge free wood/log splitter

My inventiveness started at age 13 when I injured my hand operating a wood/log splitter, as so many thousands of others do, every year all over the world. After my many years of in several trades and engineering jobs, I started the research needed in development of a total new idea without the use of the traditional WEDGE for log splitters. I have tried 73 different designs and the 74th was the answer to improved safety, much less power usage, frame thickness, less welding and so on. Not

Colonel George Gallie Nasmith Jacket photograph from the book On the Fringe of the Great Fight, by G. G. Nasmith McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1917

Health & Wellness

Colonel George Gallie Nasmith: Mobile Water Filtration for the Allies

Canadian War Museum

George Gallie Nasmith was a Provincial Board of Health chemist and the Director of Laboratories at the Department of Health of the City of Toronto. Nasmith tried to enlist for service during the First World War but was turned away because of his height: 4 ft. 6 in. He appealed and eventually received authority to organize a laboratory to test and purify drinking water for Canadians overseas. He was responsible for the water supply at Valcartier Camp, in Quebec, in 1914, and later served in the

Compressing Earth Blocks

Earth & Environment

GlobalMedic | Compressed Earth Blocks

To support families who have lost their homes as a result of disasters, GlobalMedic operates an innovative shelter response using Compressed Earth Block (CEB) technology. By simply compacting earth from the ground using the CEB machine, a strong, durable and environmentally friendly building material is produced. These blocks are then used to construct new houses. These homes not only protect families in the event of future disasters but also create employment, strengthen local participation and

Second World War Nutrition Poster: Canadian War Museum 19750317-073

Canada’s Food Guide: Wartime Eating for a Healthier Postwar Population

Canadian War Museum

The first Canadian food guide, The Official Food Rules, was conceived in 1942 as a means of helping consumers navigate the difficulties of wartime rationing. If followed, the guide would ensure high nutritional standards for the men and women contributing to the war effort, decrease malnutrition associated with poverty, and improve the general health of Canadians. Scientists, medical doctors, academics and social welfare workers began working together in 1938 and eventually recommended the food

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