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Old Cell Phones = Food for the Hungry
Ever wonder what to do with that old cell phone now that you’ve upgraded to a newer slimmer model? You can’t throw it away (toxic waste anyone?) but it’s useless and all those phones pile up over time. So what do you do? Rogers has the answer: As the national wireless sponsor of Phones for…
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iPhone Update: eBay Madness, No Contract and Unlocking Rumours
Less than 24 hours after the launch of Apple’s new toy the iPhone we know a lot more both about the product itself and it’s customers. Here’s a short roundup: People are stupid 1 As with the launch of the PS3 evil people are exploiting the stupidity of others through eBay. Sellers are offering up…
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Roundup: iPhone Reviews and Alternatives
So the day has finally come: The long awaited iPhone is actually available to consumers (or rather to those stupid eager enough to stand in line for days to get their hands on it). Because Apple in their infinate paranoia has refused to supply anyone except a very select few with a demo model and…
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Swiss Army Knives go High Tech
We probably all had one when we were kids – at least we did where I grew up: The Swiss Army knife. And the number of blades and accessories on your shiny red pocket knife was the truest gauge of your status. Well, that was then. This is the future and Victorinox (makers of the…
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Opera Mini – Like iPhone but Free on Any Phone
While the tech world falls over itself in anticipation of the iPhone the small Norwegian browser company Opera puts out a new version of their fantastic Opera Mini browser for cell phones. The new version – Opera Mini 4 – presents the web as it looks on a computer (just like the iPhone) and is…
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Universal Solar Charger – Leave a Slightly Smaller Footprint
After decades (if not centuries) of consumerism people have finally started to open their eyes to the idea that our wasteful way of life might be damaging both the planet and ourselves. On the heels of the new Green Wave a whole range of new products are arriving to help ease the burden on our…
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2007 Acura RDX
Good things come in little packages. This is especially true if your big brother is the Acura MDX and you have Honda engineers backing you. The all-new RDX brings the priceline of the SUV lineup for Acura back down to an affordable 40 thousand range. The MDX has moved more upmarket, in size, features and…
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Microsoft Tries its Hand at Design…and Hiding the Elephant
A lot of eyebrows were raised in the web design and development community when Microsoft announced that they were diving head first into the web development market with a new program package designed to be in direct competition with Adobe’s (formerly Macromedia) Flash platform. In conjunction (though somewhat delayed) with the release of Windows Vista…
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Motorola S9 Bluetooth Active Stereo Headset
I went to the gym the other day armed with a new weapon. Yes, I’ll admit it, some days getting motivated to work out is as hard as actually working out. The weapon? The new Motorola S9 Bluetooth Active Stereo Headset. A whole lot less geeky looking than other models, this new, lightweight (less than…
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ESA seeks volunteers to go to Mars (not actually Mars)
The European Space Agency (ESA) is looking for volunteers to go to Mars Russia for an experiment in social behaviour. Basically they want to lock a group of 6 people in a research facility for 500 days (the duration of a real Mars mission), shut them off from the outside world and see what happens to…