Countries: CA

MIT undergraduate student Stephan Boyer has developed a partially self-balancing electric unicycle to enable him to get around a busy university campus.

New sports mouthguards crammed with electronics provide real-time information to help protect an athlete’s brain from damage caused by concussion.

A remote-controlled eye-in-the-sky with an onboard computer and camera will help firefighters track and deal with wildfires.

Experience another of automotive artist Randy Grubb’s creations – the Decoliner – a fanciful vehicle inspired by 1930s art-deco trailers.

Flight-enabled robots construct a six-metre-tall structure designed to be the prototype for a vertical village housing 30,000 people.

Learn how to drive a powerful tugboat using a tugboat simulator, then see what it takes to control a real tugboat in Vancouver harbour.

Off the California coast, oceanographers deploy a robotic ear to measure noise in the ocean.

Industrial hemp is being grown for a hybrid material to be used in making car parts for Canada’s first bio-composite automobile.

Musician/composer Michael Peterman has brought together an ensemble of vintage kitchen appliances for a one-of-a-kind orchestra.

Cloned glow-in-the-dark dogs and cats are being used in research for tracking human diseases such as diabetes, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.