Robots sure do get around these days. They star in Bjork’s music videos, steal people’s jobs, vacuum, and haunt our dreams. It’s a classic “rapidly expanding field,” robotics is, with applications cropping up in more and more spheres from health care to household chores, manufacturing to space exploration. And though we’ve known the robots were [...]

InteraXon’s downtown headquarters on John Street. Photo by D.A. Cooper/Torontoist. Telekinesis—the ability to move matter through thought alone—has long served as fodder for comic books, late-night cable specials, and drug-fuelled fantasies. But aside from the occasional shiftless Star Wars nerd faced with a chicken wing just out of arm’s reach, it’s not something most of [...]

Source: Quest, June/July/August 1982. As apple-picking season starts its decline, we wandered to the nearest orchard this weekend to check whether any heritage varieties were left on the trees. After being distracted by the allure of one too many honeycrisps and mutsus, we found a hardy tree bearing the long lost Don Mills strain of [...]

Illustration by Kyra Kendall/Torontoist. Yesterday brought some good news for Mac users. And, believe it or not, it had nothing to do with pads, or tablets, or whatever. Last week we wrote about a brewing dispute at the Toronto District School Board over the future of Mac computers in school computer labs. Lee Stem, general [...]

Photo by Smedlipotski from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Why, at the very crest of Apple’s latest wave of buzz, is the Toronto District School Board moving to phase out Mac computers in all its facilities? Lots of reasons. The decision was announced in a briefing note, submitted to the TDSB’s trustees on November 13 by [...]