Image caption: The Gastronomous team. People are thinking carefully about new ways to work and the rules of engagement. In general, more people are leaving their jobs. There’s been a full-scale exodus from hospitality during the pandemic. The global health crisis exasperated a pre-existing condition. Filling jobs has been hard…
Seeing a flexible future
Canadian smart glasses that could change the wearable game In 1983 the first iteration of the mobile phone was released by Motorola in the United States. If you’re old enough, you might remember Tom Selleck as Magnum PI using one, a big beige brick with an antenna. Not something…
Sheridan team creates PPE for front-line healthcare workers
Sheridan College’s Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Design Technologies (CAMDT) has answered the call to create personal protective equipment (PPE) for front-line healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers at CAMDT, located at Sheridan’s Davis Campus in Brampton, Ont., delivered a total of 1,900 certified and reusable face shields:…
Lambton College Supporting Front-Line Healthcare Workers with PPE
Researchers at Lambton College’s Lambton Manufacturing Innovation Centre (LMIC) have answered the call for personal protective equipment (PPE) for front-line healthcare workers at Bluewater Health in Sarnia and Petrolia during the COVID-19 pandemic. After supply chains and equipment availability for PPE were disrupted during the early stages of the global…
Plumbing company to help break chain of deadly hospital infections thanks to SONAMI partnership
Great ideas are oftentimes born from the unlikeliest of places. However, if you are a plumbing fixture designer, tapping a revolutionary idea from a hospital sink is not as strange as it may seem. This was the case for Chris McLeod, who read a disturbing story a few years…