Bacteria-killing touchscreens, sporty smart glasses, and Canada’s Top 30 Under 30

Every Monday, CommerceLab brings you a roundup of all the gamification, user experience and interactive display news that’s fit to print. (Or the stuff we liked best, anyway.)

This week, Forbes released its annual Top 30 Under 30 list and, wouldn’t you know it, a bunch of Canadians made the cut—including more than a few from the tech world. Check out the full list, or click here to read about Canada’s own set of overachievers.

Good news for germophobe techies: bacteria-killing touchscreen glass is on its way! Gorilla Glass, as the company is calling it, is currently testing antimicrobial coatings that could eliminate the inherently gross part of touch screens—all that touching.

Italy’s biggest transit network is now using a Canadian digital signage platform. Grandi Stazioni, which services 700 million people a year, switched over this week to a digital signage program operated by Broadsign International, based in Montreal.

Finally, a new set of smart glasses designed specifically for sports. Designed by Vancouver-based Recon, the Jet looks like a cross between Google Glass and ski goggles, and effectively works that way, too. They’re pretty cool.