These days, requiring a passport or Nexus card to get into the U.S. is as certain as death – there’s pretty much no way to avoid it. But you can narrowly escape it, rarely.
That stroke of luck appears to be exactly what happened to a Quebec man who got through a Canada/U.S. border crossing by using a scanned image of his passport, shown on his iPad.
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.
The Canadian dollar might be hovering just around parity with the American greenback, but that doesn’t mean things cost the same on both sides of the border.
Several items are often much cheaper in the States for reasons I’m not well-versed to explain, but it’s disappointing for us Canucks – if you don’t use online shopping to your advantage.
Just in time for Black Friday, it’s worth drawing attention to Bing’s Cross Border Shopping tool. It offers a quick and easy way to comparison shop between items sold in Canada and the United States, factoring in everything from exchange rates to shipping and import fees.
So, is time travel real? That's the question now being raised thanks to the latest video to go viral, which purports to show someone using a cellphone–in 1928.
If your computer told you to drive off a cliff, would you do it? How about if it told you to walk down an unpaved highway with cars whizzing past you? Because that, apparently, is the course of action that Lauren Rosenberg decided upon, after being instructed by Google Maps.
Wow. And when I say Wow, what I really mean is...W.O.W. Look at this picture. How much do you think it cost to take it? Launching the satellite, customising the carefully-controlled precision camera, getting the images back down to earth, and so on? $750, for the whole job. It was taken by a private citizen in the UK, and NASA is so impressed that it contacted him to find out how he did it.
Are you a car driver, or do you prefer to be out and about on your bike? A new product from a New Zealand company promises to give you the agility of a bike, with the self-propelled benefits of driving. Called the YikeBike, it looks like a modern day unicycle, but its lithium phosphate battery lets you zip along at 25 km/h.
An interesting site has sprung up in the last few days. Please Rob Me is a production of Forthehack, an incubator for new web ideas. The site does one thing, and does it well - it tells you who's not at home, so that you can go and rob them. That's right - rob their empty homes. But it doesn't actually want burglars to go calling, it's just trying to make a point.
A tech reviewer such as yours truly receives a lot of gadgets, games and gear to test-drive -- er, no violins, please -- but you can imagine my confusion when a winter jacket arrived at my home office the other day.
We've talked about gadgets that are bad for the environment, but let's not forget gadgets that can be beneficial to the planet. I love this idea, of speed bumps designed to capture electricity from decelerating vehicles.
They are already trying one out at a Burger King in New Jersey. They were using the basic principle that you see in hybrid vehicles, which is that instead of wasting the kinetic energy contained in a moving vehicle by simply braking to a halt, we can harvest that energy by storing it in a battery as we help the vehicle to slow down. Anyone who drives a Toyota Prius is already doing this whenever they hit the brake pedal.
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.
