In the late 1960's, the research of the University of Toronto's Professor James Guillet led to one of his most important discoveries: how to create polymers (plastics) that will degrade or breakdown in sunlight. In 1970, he registered three patents for...(read more)

This week's innovation is none other than the Abdominizer! If you watched late-1980's television infomercials, you remember this product. You may even still have one in your basement!! Invented by chiropractor Dennis Colonello in 1984, over 6 million were sold...(read more)

Arcon's Ram Haddad, IAAI-CFI®(V), WETT, DFE, P.E., P.Eng. and Daniel P. Couture, P.Eng., DFE, FEC recently attended the National Academy of Forensic Engineers - NAFE Summer Conference in Ann Arbor Michigan. In addition to attending...(read more)

Well this week, it's back to the geeky scientific stuff!

The DigiSync Film Barcode Reader simplified the work of film editors and negative cutters when dealing with time and frame calculations. It came out in 1990, and by 1994 it had garnered an Emmy Award, followed...(read more)

Arcon is proud to be nominated once again for the Canadian Lawyer magazine's 10th Reader's Choice Awards!

Nominations are wonderful but the proof of Arcon's commitment to providing benchmark-quality forensic engineering services is in the...(read more)

Well, it's the second week of our series of posts celebrating 60 years of Canadian innovations and this week's innovation, despite being launched 6 decades ago, still provokes a polarized response from pizza lovers. 

Love it or hate it, the Hawaiian pizza,...(read more)