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Spymaster: The Twitter Game That Will Assassinate Your Time

Over the past few days, perhaps you’ve seen a few tweets pop up in your stream from people you follow that end with the “spymaster” hashtag. If not, it’s likely you will soon. Spymaster is a new social game based around Twitter in which you do spy-like things such as buy things on the black [...]

Congratulations ToJam 4!

Innovation Toronto has been fortunate to have the ability to lend space to worthy projects from time to time at our 169 Eastern Avenue warehouse with the support of the Government of Ontario.

In our more than 14 years of operation, we have had the privilege of hosting more than 150 organizations, projects and events.
ToJam is [...]

A Truly Disruptive Technology?? Streaming games service launched

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After seven years in stealth mode, a Silicon Valley start-up has launched a “revolutionary” video game service that offers new competition to consoles.
OnLive, which launched at the Game Developer Conference, promises to deliver on demand video games via the cloud to the PC, Mac or TV.
The company said it can provide high quality [...]

PLAYING WITH BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES

Operating machines or playing videogames just with our thoughts is not science fiction anymore. And Anton Nijholt (see photo on the left), full professor of computer science at the University of Twente, is one of the researchers working at building so called brain-computer interfaces for these purposes.
At CHI 2008, he is one of the organizers [...]

The First Innovation Wednesday

Well, we had fun!
The first Innovation Wednesday meetup was great fun. We wound up talking mainly about the gaming industry and how to make Toronto into a player or even major player in the genre . . .
Many thanks to our new friends Rob and Jim for their insights into a fascinating industry. [...]