 Hello good afternoon, I'm Thomas, this is Elie from the National Research Council of Canada. And I just wanted to show you something really cool that we're doing here in Canada. So bear with me and we'll go and see. So the National Research Council, what is that? It's a federal lab, so our role is to actually develop technology building blocks and help companies connect with the market. And for example today we're representing nine companies here in the Canadian Pavilion and we're showing a demo live of kind of a hockey play and how these wearable technologies actually really work in real life. So what does Canada do with printable electronics? We have a strong expertise in material. We're also doing various printing techniques. Here's an award-winning material from RIMOL, Nano Integrist. Just won the award, the best material at the show, right? So a few moments ago. It has a carbon nanotube material that enables to print directly transistors with very high performance. So how does it work? Well first of all we grow the nanotubes using a plasma torch process. And then what we do is we've engineered a polymer, the NRC is the most of the work, but still the polymer wraps around the tube like that and we'll selectively extract the nanotubes that we want for transistors, which is the semi-conducting kind because there's some nanotubes that are not good for transistors. So once the polymer has done its job you can really extract it, purify, and then print it using either inkjet aerosol deposition or maybe even reviewer. And then you can make transistors. I mean this is a close-up image but that's what they look like. And this is what our inks look like. So it's for the first time a truly scalable way of making those nanotubes. How soon is this mass produced? It's mass produced today. It is? Yep. And where does it go? It goes to our clients. I can't tell you unfortunately who they are but they're very excited so far about the prospects for biosensing, gas sensing, display drivers and maybe even memory and logic, but that's going to be a few years in the making. So what else you show here? Flexible electronics can also be used as integrated into government. And they will show an example from OnSignal in Montreal. Hey. Hi there. So who are you? Pascal from OnSignal. We're doing smart shirts. Smart shirts being the possibility to record your physiology through your wearable. So what's going on there? So basically what you have is the shirt is recording all sorts of things. Art and breathing goes through this module and through Bluetooth to your app. So this is my iPod so you can see. This is the iPod, the Apple device that gets transmitted by BLE from the box to the cloud afterward. So OnSignal, right? OnSignal, yeah. What did you do before? Is this your first product? Myself. So OnSignal is their first product. We're a very young company about three years old. I've been there for two years and a couple of months. Is this for sale already or how soon it's going to be for sale? So it has been for pre-sale since May. Kickstarter? Not Kickstarter, on our own website. And it's going to be shipped on Monday. Monday for how much? Monday for $200, $250 depending on which one you take because we have different styles. This one has no sleeve, we have short sleeves, long sleeves, white shirt. So what's the idea? Everybody doing sports will wear this or what? Everybody will wear this at some point. Everybody. So right now we're focusing on workout exercises but we really want to go on lifestyle and see what happens in the long term. For a short demonstration on how your body reacts to very basic things. I'm going to go... Perhaps the skipping rope first? Oh, the skipping rope, yes. Skip here and then we'll do a bit of... Okay. Let me remind you, I'm a scientist. So... Don't fall, huh? The rope is not my strength. If you fall, I get more views. Keep going, keep going. Harder, harder. Yes, yes, harder. Get up to 130. All right. This is the reason for 26 years of education. All right? Okay, now we're going to be kind of playing a bit of a thing. Yeah, so that's also... So this is about focus and steady movements. So Canada can play ice hockey? Yeah. Yeah. Quite a lot. Really? You're too good, eh? Give me a chance, give me a chance. Good. So when you're doing all this, we see the heart rate... Heart rate, respiration rate... Is there any chance that... Yes! No, no, that was... Okay. Is there any chance that there could be more than these two things? Oh yeah, of course. So the one you don't see right now is activity. So intensity, impact, all sorts of things, plus gyroscope. So these are our three first entry points or three first sensors. But our philosophy is having textile clothing or having all these sensors all together embedded in them, not added, but just as part of them. So it's going to be inside the H&M's and the Ross or whatever they call all the other ones, right? Yeah. Inside the clothes by default? Exactly. Like this one, what we have is really textile. Everything is textile-based. The electrodes are embedded. So the way we record art is really inside the shirt. And it's flexible? Of course. It's washing machine. Washing machine? Oh yeah. Recyclable? Well, that's another topic. Good question. We'll see that later. Is textile recyclable? I mean polyester cotton? I don't know. Well, it goes in the same place. Sorry, I asked that. Cool. No problem. Thank you very much. That's very nice. So many things happening in Canada. A lot of things happening in Canada, from material to devices too. The new end applications enabled by the flexible and wearable technology. So we're very excited about the opportunity. And it's happening in Montreal and where? Actually across the country, from indeed the East to the West, we have companies that are active in lighting, flexible lighting in Vancouver, companies working in wearables in Ottawa, a lot of companies in human machine interface, again coast to coast in Montreal, in Toronto and all that. And the government is providing support to all these guys doing innovation? We are providing hands-on R&D assistance developing technology building blocks that enable to really bridge the gap from academic research to real commercially focused research.