ZSA Technology Labs has launched a backpack designed specifically for split keyboard users. The CEO expresses enthusiasm about the product, describing it as the world's first such backpack and highlighting its quality design.
A relocation guide for remote software engineers considering a move to Canada, highlighting the VanHack program that sponsors visas and helps over 100 engineers relocate while maintaining their current jobs. The guide provides resources for visa research, cost of living, salaries, and job search information, noting Canada's strong tech sectors in cities like Toronto, Vancouver, and Montréal with particular strength in AI, cybersecurity, and quantum computing.
Project Blinkenlights transforms buildings into giant interactive light displays, beginning with a 2001 Chaos Computer Club installation in Berlin and expanding to major cities across three continents. The project includes installations in Paris, Toronto, and others, ranging from monochrome pixel displays to full-color systems, with tools for converting custom media into facade animations.
Loblaw Company Limited conducted a large-scale LED drone advertisement over Toronto's Fort York on September 10, promoting its President's Choice Health app with health-related questions and a QR code. The 15-minute aerial display, which received city and NAV CANADA approvals, sparked online debate about commercial use of airspace, with critics calling for such advertising to be banned.