7 Great Tech Products for Parents
By Christine Persaud
This year, we’ll be seeing more great tech gear for parents, targeting safety, health, fun, and convenience. Here’s a sampling of five great products coming up in 2016.
Category: Gadgets
Calgary to Get Its Own Spaceship – uhh, Bass Ship
by Lee Rickwood
Beama Visual does some amazing mash-ups itself, with creative video mapping and custom anaglyph 3D animations set to live music and sound effects.
Review: Securifi Almond+ router aims high, can’t do it all
By Ted Kritsonis
Securifi isn’t a well-known brand, and the Almond+ isn’t likely to stand out in the router crowd, but this is a device that aims to combine home networking with home automation — a first in this category. It’s a sound premise, except the execution highlights some key shortcomings.
Review: HP Envy 8 Note is a small 2-in-1 designed for note taking
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
The HP Envy 8 Note and keyboard combination (US $429.99) makes for a lightweight and capable tool for writing documents on Microsoft Word, managing email via Outlook or various web-based email applications and has enough power for videos and some basic games.
David Bowie in Toronto – Gallery Exhibit Showed His Genius
by Lee Rickwood
The high-tech show will present more than 300 of Bowie’s creations and collaborations in fashion, sound, theatre, art and film, from a career that spanned five decades.
Are Mobile Phone Sniffers in Use by Police Forces?
By Lee Rickwood
Incoming and outgoing calls as well as text messages can be monitored and recorded, encryption keys can be extracted, and all this can happen to one or several phones simultaneously, without an owner’s knowledge or permission.
It Will Be a Happy New Year, as Alien Civilizations Unlikely to Attack!
By Lee Rickwood
Yikes! Pollution is one tell-tale sign of civilization. So too, communication using radio transmissions – something else our civilization is pretty good at.
Review: Athos wearable tech shirt and shorts
By Ted Kritsonis
Wearable technology has been driven mostly by fitness bands, smartwatches and other activity trackers, but clothing is also becoming a factor. Athos has come to market with a three-piece ensemble designed to measure muscle activation during workouts, pushing the data to an app that visualizes it all in real-time.