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A Vertical Farming System is Being Installed in Vancouver
0By: Kuljit Grewal | September 3rd, 2012 | Business, Living, News, O Canada
A Vancouver based company called Alterrus Systems is planning on building an incredible farming system at the top of a downtown parking lot. Known as the VertiCrop urban farming system, the ‘vertical farm’ uses a collection of suspended trays configured to function on a moving conveyor. The movement allows for regula...
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Panasonic Debuts World’s Largest Glasses Free 3D HDTV, a 103” Beast at IFA 2012
By: Kuljit Grewal | September 2nd, 2012 | Gadgets, Living, News
We have been doing what we can to bring you the latest and greatest from IFA Consumer Electronics Show. Something we had to share is the largest glasses free 3D HDTV measuring in at 103”. The Panasonic creation weighs an impressive 706 pounds and measures 7.9 feet by 4.6 feet. According to t...
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TELUS Mobility Partners with Telehop to Provide its Customers with Cheap Long-Distance Calling
By: Kuljit Grewal | September 2nd, 2012 | Business, Living, News, O Canada
Thanks to a recently announced $25M partnership deal between TELUS Mobility and Telehop, the former’s 7.5 million clients will receive hassle-free long distance savings. The agreement, the first of its kind for a North American carrier, will provide...
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Interactive Old Spice Ad Allows You to Make Music with Terry Crews’ Muscles
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 29th, 2012 | Living
We at TQ are big fans of Old Spice, particularly their clever advertising and marketing strategies and campaigns. Whether involving Ray Lewis, The Man Your Man Could Smell Like or movie star Terry Crews, the ads are always well written and produced. The 'Believe ...
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Montreal’s Wajam Earns Three Prestigious Stevie Awards
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 28th, 2012 | iOS, Living, News, O Canada, Social Media
An incredibly forward thinking start-up based out of Montreal, Wajam has gained some serious recognition. The social search engine, which integrates information from your social networks to aid in filtering searches and discovering information, has won three International Business Awards. Popularly known as ‘Stevies...
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Ottawa’s Amika Mobile Corp. Helped Make the Little League World Series Safe for All
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 27th, 2012 | Living, News, O Canada
Every summer in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania the finest t 11-13 year old baseball players in the world represent their nation at the Little League World Series (LLWS). The event, which culminated yesterday with Japan’s 12-2 victory over U.S. champion Tennessee draws thousands of spectators and volunteers, had an extra leve...
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Sight: An Incredible Short Film that Shows How Augmented Reality Could Impact Life
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 26th, 2012 | Living
Whether you think that augmented reality projects like Google’s Project Glass, which features a head mounted display that allows you to experience and share the world around you, is a boon or a harbinger of a dystopian future, there is no denying the technology and its potential are absolutely incredible. An awesome short...
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Discovery Communications Invests $31.5 Million in Innovative Brain Game Start Up Lumosity
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 23rd, 2012 | Business, Games, Health, iOS, Living, Mobile Apps, News
Created by neuroscientists from Stanford University, Lumosity aims to improve core cognitive abilities through games. The company has been on a tear, increasing revenues by 25% quarter over quarter since its inception in 2007. That type of growth as well as 25 million members, 10 million of which have joined...
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Google Goes Mapping in Nunavut
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 23rd, 2012 | Google, Living, News, O Canada
A team of Google employees is busy in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut as the iconic technology company attempts to build a comprehensive map of our nation’s arctic region. According to Mashable, residents of the small northern hamlet have been busy using
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VIDEO: Visions of Star Wars – Amazing Hover Bike Spotted
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 22nd, 2012 | Cars, Gadgets, Living, News
Fans of George Lucas’ Star Wars films will surely remember the iconic speeder bike chase that takes place in the Return of the Jedi. Incredibly, a California based company called Aeroflex and its aerospace engineer CEO Mark De Roche have created an aerial vehicle that literally hovers effortlessly and int...
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