Movie audiences who fell in love with the spectacle of Hugh Jackman's 'Real Steel' will love what Disney's done with the Blu-ray release that hits shelves this Tuesday (January 24).
Not content with a standard release, the studio is bringing a 'second screen' to viewers' iPads and PC devices. This 'app' enables viewers to interact with the Blu-ray extras as the movie plays.
Well, it's that time of year again. CES is upon us, and down in Vegas, the great and the good of the consumer electronics biz are showcasing this year's product. However, this is a bittersweet year for CES, because it loses one of its biggest supporters: Microsoft. The software giant has announced that this will be the last year it attends CES as a keynote speaker.
Toshiba says it is bringing the world's first glasses-3D laptop to Canada, just in time for the back-to-school season.
It’s pretty easy to tell good technology from bad. The bad stuff usually leads to trying to imagine how the particular tech might make existing tasks better or easier. The good stuff, however, immediately sparks the imagination.
In that sense, Nintendo’s new video game console - the WiiU, unveiled Tuesday at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles - is a clear example of good technology. While just about every new product announcement at E3’s numerous press conferences elicited applause, a demonstration of the WiiU’s capabilities seemed to draw genuine cheers of wonder from the crowd assembled.
A Quebec company’s GPS tracking system has irked teens whose activities behind the wheel can be monitored, metre-by-metre, with its devices.
What would you expect from a $500 pair of headphones? They would have to deliver phenomenal sound, of course, but would that be enough? Your cellphone likely cost you no more than $200 and think about everything that does.
Sennheiser’s PXC 360 BT headphones aim to satisfy the lofty expectations customers naturally have of headphones costing as much as an entry-level laptop by adding both noise-cancelling technology and the option to go wireless with built-in Bluetooth. We’ll get into those extras in a minute but first let’s deal with how these things sound.
Internet radio is an easy sell for people tired of local radio options and unwilling to fork out for Sirius/XM. All it requires is a computer and an internet connection - and you're good to go.
As this genre has evolved, people have grown weary of the limitations of a stationary desktop and the inconvenience of a power-draining laptop. As a result, demand for simple internet radio players has grown.
The latest in a range of products that has already brought us the Logitech Squeezebox and the Apple iPod Touch is the Evoke Flow.
Ebook advocates got a hefty dose of validation this week, after Amazon announced that it is now selling more ebooks than paperbacks overall. It followed on from an earlier announcement in January, when the company revealed that it sold more Kindle ebooks than paperbacks in the US during the final three months of last year. Now, it seems that the Kindle craze is spreading further, and wider. Since April 1, Amazon has sold 105 ebooks for the Kindle platform, for every 100 print books sold. That's pretty amazing for a platform that only launched four years ago. Have we reached the tipping point for electronic books and magazines?
Ebook advocates got a hefty dose of validation this week, after Amazon announced that it is now selling more ebooks than paperbacks overall. It followed on from an earlier announcement in January, when the company revealed that it sold more Kindle ebooks than paperbacks in the US during the final three months of last year. Now, it seems that the Kindle craze is spreading further, and wider. Since April 1, Amazon has sold 105 ebooks for the Kindle platform, for every 100 print books sold. That's pretty amazing for a platform that only launched four years ago. Have we reached the tipping point for electronic books and magazines?
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Danny Bradbury is a technology journalist with 20 years' experience. He writes regularly for publications including the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Financial Post, and Backbone magazine. Danny also writes and directs documentaries.
Maurice CachoMaurice Cacho is a Toronto-based journalist mixing his love for tech with a passion for news. He's also CP24's Web Journalist and appears daily on CP24 Breakfast and weekly on the channel's tech show, Webnation, discussing tech news and trends.
