Amazon Alexa is a powerful tool that has made us more efficient at gathering information and performing daily tasks. With thousands of integrations with third-party services, Alexa really is like a personal assistant sitting in the room that can do your...
What started as a personal mission to reintroduce a passion for outdoor adventure for Tecla user Ian Mackay soon evolved into a larger goal to increase accessibility of public spaces for wheelchair users. This month, we spoke to Ian on...
When trying to understand the broad term of social entrepreneurship, you can picture the definition in terms of a scale. On one end lies companies that were not originally motivated to create a solution that would improve lives or leave...
In a previous blog, we listed DIY as one of the most recent trends in the assistive technology industry. The two main factors that blew up the popularity of DIY projects are the accessibility of creating your own tutorials and...
"After a tragic accident, this tech startup helped one woman regain independence": Video by MaRS Meet one of Tecla’s first beta testers: Carolyn. Carolyn sustained a spinal cord injury in 2005, having to adjust to a new life with quadriplegia...
