Montreal Tech Watch

Control Interface with eyes, with Mirametrix

Here’s a cool tech showcasing a new way to control games, and user interfaces thanks to your eyes. The Mirametrix software and hardware (a modified Kinect sensor) can detect different gazes The use cases are a bit intense for daily usage, since staring at a screen and forcing your gaze have ophtalmic consequences, but I [...]

Moka is a python library that lets you chain functional constructs

Moka is a python library that lets you chain functional constructs

Dominic Savoie (@phzbox ), also known for the gosuway project,, has released the moka python library this weekend. The library is aimed at python developers who find themselves working with lists on several lines, or wishing of a way their code were more readable. Here’s a code simple on how you can chain 8 operations, [...]

A complete calendar of Montreal Tech events A complete calendar of Montreal Tech events

A complete calendar of Montreal Tech events

There’s the excellent montreal startup digest that you can subscribe to get upcoming Montreal events, but as good as Robin can be, there’s still events that you can miss out. Felipe is also doing a calendar, but it’s not complete since he’s in Berlin. I’ve been using a detailed calendar for the past few weeks, [...]

iNovia invests in YC startup vidyard, along with other top Valley VCs

iNovia invests in YC startup vidyard, along with other top Valley VCs

vidyard is making headlines for its $1.65m investment, by SoftTech VC, youtube co-founder Jawed Karim, YCombinator, iNovia Capital Andreessen Horowitz and other investors. vidyard provides a professional video hosting service, for companies who use video to communicate about their products, but basically don’t want them to click on the video and get lost on the [...]

Oui, on parle français

Il y a un article intéressant sur les unilingues anglos au Mile-End que je vous conseille, et le parallèle à faire avec le milieu high-tech est intéressant. Si vous êtes curieux des nouvelles technologies et tout ce qui est “start-up”, un des choses les plus surprenantes est de voir que tout se fait en anglais [...]