Influencer Relationship Management tool, Onalytica released their top global influencers and brands list for the wearables industry today.
Toronto’s own Tom Emrich and his @WeAreWearables community placed 3rd and 7th in the influencer and brand lists. Congrats Tom! Your’s truly is the 28th most influential person in wearables today. Amazing!
The hottest start-ups and technology can be found every month at the We Are Wearables meetup in Toronto. At this past week’s meet-up, attendees were also treated to a presentation by Nielsen Canada on their soon to be released report: Connected Life.
Following is a summary of comments and photos from this presentation.
For more information on the Connected Life survey and the future of wearables and smartwatches in Canada visit Mobile Syrup’s post on this presentation.
Earlier last month I wrote about an Ottawa-based startup called GestureLogic that had just finished building a product called LEO. Now, the fine folks that built LEO are raising funds on IndieGoGo. The team is looking to raise at least $50,000 to help finish building their product:
Your contribution will go directly into building our beta units so that we can transform LEO into a final product. But crowdfunding is not only about the funding, it’s also about the crowd! Your contribution means a whole lot more than extra cash.
Last week, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited Waterloo tech startup hub Communitech which is also the home of Thalmic Labs.
Scott Greenberg, Head of Developer Relations at Thalmic Labs, and Stephen Lake, CEO and co-founder of Thalmic Labs, showcase the Myo armband flying a Parrot drone to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. (left to right)
I had a chance to meet the founding team of GestureLogic in late May at a We Are Wearables event at MaRS in Toronto. They are a fantastic team from Ottawa (not just a place for public employees it seems!) that is looking to change the way people exercise. They’re new product is called LEO. And very soon they will be launching an IndieGoGo campaign.
Keep your eyes peeled here to stay up to date on their fundraising campaign.
The latest We Are Wearables MeetUp was held at the end of last month. Among other interesting start-ups and projects, the event featured Toronto-based Bionym and their product, Nymi. Personally, I am a huge fan of wearables.
Click HERE for my article that I wrote for itbusiness.
Bionym’s Nymi
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