Reviewing the Amazon Kindle Oasis
By Ted Kritsonis
The Kindle Oasis is Amazon’s most advanced e-reader and made for people who power through titles with regularity.
Category: Gadgets
Gift Guide – Smart Home and IoT products and services
Here are some of the gift-worthy smart home gadgets and accessories that have caught my eye this year.
6 great Bluetooth speakers that can operate in any weather
By Christine Persaud
Here’s a look at 6 portable Bluetooth speakers that can operate in any weather, allowing you to enjoy tunes during a backyard winter party, while building a snowman, sliding and gliding on the ski hill, singing in the rain, or sitting poolside.
Sonos One Speaker review
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
In terms of sound quality, we can enjoy the legendary Sonos sound engineering in the smallest package. Audio quality is sublime and loudness is also surprising. It’s hard to imagine all that music is coming out of such a small speaker and yet here we are.
Wearables, Smart Textiles and Flexible Electronics Gain Support in Canada
by Lee Rickwood
At a tech industry event being staged in Toronto, more than a dozen product developers and exhibitors are showing off wearables with a difference.
Reviewing the Lifebeam Vi personal trainer headphones
By Ted Kritsonis
The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) can make for interesting use cases, like with Lifebeam’s Vi headphones, which try hard to be a virtual fitness motivator.
What you need to know about Bluetooth music streaming
By Ted Kritsonis
Headphone jacks are slowly disappearing from smartphones, steering consumers over to Bluetooth headphones for wireless playback. Except, the codecs aren’t all created equal.
Before Apple and Before Microsoft, Canadian Computers Ruled, New Tech Museum Shows
by Lee Rickwood
A museum dedicated to the history of computing in Canada reminds us that modern inventions are frequently the result of a long chain of events that started decades ago.