5 Technologies Improving Women’s Health & Well-being
Despite women making up 50% of the global population, the women’s health technology industry (affectionately known as FemTech) experiences stigmatization of women’s health conditions and an underrepresentation of uterus-having individuals in studies. FemTech is projected to be worth $1.1 billion dollars in 2024, but that is a small share of a market that has seen …
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5 Innovative Assistive Technologies Making Our World More Accessible
Assistive technology can be broadly defined as any tools, software or materials that are developed for people to overcome challenges that result from variations in physical ability. Something as low tech as your prescription eyeglasses can be considered an assistive device, while higher tech would be a motorized wheelchair or a hearing aid. Perhaps most …
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5 Novel Technologies Enabling a Healthier Planet
“Technology. The cause of–and solution to–all of life’s problems.” – Homer Simpson While the above quote is not exactly what Homer said, it’s certainly applicable when we consider the incredible advancements technology has brought us in the last 150, or 50, or 10 years. Who now can imagine life without smartphones, let alone without electricity …
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Announcing MistyWest’s New Focus
Intelligent connected device development firm MistyWest has decided the best way to align with its purpose of enabling a healthier planet and bringing prosperity to all humankind is by focusing all of its resources on manufacturing skimboards. “After months of analysis of future trends in technology and social development, it became clear that …
5 Women Founded BC Tech Companies
It’s the year 2021, and women only account for 15 to 20 percent of the tech workforce in British Columbia. Why is this? Research suggests that influence from families, role models and cultural stereotypes impact women’s decisions to pursue education–and later, careers–in STEM. The existing lack of representation of women and BIPOC folks in high …
What Is The Purpose Of Hardware Prototyping?
What is Hardware Prototyping? When MistyWest was approached by VodaSafe prior to developing the AquaEye, founder Carlyn Loncaric had a proof-of-concept (POC) and a goal: to develop a life-saving piece of technology that can quickly scan underwater to locate drowning victims. Through iterative prototyping, our engineering team was able to develop a hand-held device that …
7 Companies Fighting The COVID-19 Pandemic
As I write this from my home office during quarantine, I am reflecting on what has become the new normal. I don’t think many of us thought we’d live to see a day where massive, global layoffs occur and nearly every single country would close its borders, restrict domestic travel, and order us all to …
Dyson Airwrap I: Design Review & Demo
This is the first of a two part series on the Dyson Airwrap. Part II features our technical teardown. Origin Story If you’ve ever used a hand dryer in a public washroom, you’re probably familiar with Dyson. Famously known for their vacuums that defied the standard expectations for vacuum cleaners in the 1990s–featuring dual-cyclone …
Climate Action: So Hot Right Now
Cowritten by Madison Reid and Oleha Riden At MistyWest, our foundation is rooted in sustainable design – our first projects were designing electric vehicles and fuel cells for hybrid vehicles. As the company has evolved over the years, we’ve worked on smart IoT monitoring, ubiquitous air quality sensing systems, off-grid appliances for developing countries, and …
SFDW 2019 Opening Weekend
San Francisco Design Week is a week-long, multi-event festival in the Bay area that showcases creativity, innovation and intersections of many different industries.We work with many great teams in the Bay Area, so SFDW has been on our event roster for the past 4 years, and during 2018’s Design Week studio crawl we even partnered …
Meet a Westie: Janelle & Emma
Since 2014, MistyWest has been taking in co-ops for work terms. While we would describe the energy around the office to be pretty youthful in general, having students around can give us fresh perspectives on the work that we are creating, reminding us why we wanted to pursue engineering and design in the first place. …
SXSW 2019 Roundup
As MistyWest continues to blossom into a consultancy of flowering sales and marketing initiatives, the variety of events that we send Westies to in an effort to water the seeds of partnership also continues to grow. This was our second SXSW, and this year we sent Oleha Riden, Rebecca Apostoli, Dave MacLeod, Dan Millar and …
CES 2019 Roundup
CES always seems to hit us like a fever dream; the bright lights of the Vegas strip, the deafening noise of the conference centre, the fast-paced rush of trying to see as much as possible on never-enough sleep–it comes and goes in the blink of an eye. And then we find ourselves groggy, bodies aching, …