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TabletTail, composed of a thick, pleasantly rubberish material, extends from the back and bends rather like a Gumby figure, firmly holding whatever shape you set. you can also use it as a handle, its rounded back fits comfortably in one’s palm, the weight of the slate falling straight down the forearm, eliminating strained thumbs and wrists.
Gadget Review

Grab your tablet by this tail

Whimsical shape and malleable material makes for a stable, grippy, three-point stand the most popular tablets

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Simply jam Montreal-based startup FixMeStick's big black USB key into your computer, click “Run FixMeStick,” and sit back while it identifies and deletes any malevolent executable files on your computer.

Take a swing at malicious software with FixMeStick

When traditional anti-virus software fails, Montreal-based startup gives you another option

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Its 4.7-inch Super IPS high-definition LCD2 screen seems enormous next to most other phones, but is contrasted by the unit’s seductively slender 8.9-millimetre girth and 130-gram weight. You expect it to feel much heavier and bigger than it really does.
Review

HTC’s new flagship phone is pretty, fast and hungry

HTC One X’s battery struggles to feed the 4.7-inch screen and 1.5-gigahertz Nvidia Tegra 3 quad core processor

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Digital pyjamas, called Exmobaby, will be machine-washable with embedded sensors and a AAA-battery powered wireless transmitter that beams information on your sleeping child to a computer, smartphone or tablet.

Baby PJs fitted with heart monitors, motion sensors

Rogers partners with biomedical engineering company Exmobaby for pyjamas outfitted with wirelessly connected sensors

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BMW Vision ConnectedDrive
Jeremy Cato: Driving it Home

The dark side of new car gizmos

Why are auto makers slowly and steadily turning our cars into rolling tattletales?

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A lot of people like e-ink readers, and the Touch is a really good one... but our reviewer wonders what is the 'point in spending money on and lugging around a device the functionality of which is almost wholly duplicated on the phone and tablet that I already carry with me?'
Review

Kindle Touch reader comes close to erasing e-ink’s limits

Amazon’s digital book reader is top of its category, but it’s still a niche technology

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Samsung has not set a specific Canadian release date or price for the Galaxy S III, but expects it to be in stores before the end of June.

Samsung reveals the Galaxy S III, its latest iPhone rival

Available in late May, ‘this is going to be the biggest non-Apple smartphone launch ever seen,’ analyst says

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Review

Roku streaming TV box a new option for Canada’s cable haters

Just 100 mostly niche channels to choose from, some 300 of Roku’s U.S. online TV services are geoblocked in Canada

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A man tries out a Canon Inc's new digital SLR camera EOS-1D X at a Canon showroom in Tokyo April 24, 2012. “For several years, it has been predicted that smartphone adoption would cut into digital camera sales,” said Prashant Malaviya, Associate Professor of Marketing at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. “In fact, the exact opposite has happened.” While most point to a continuing role for cameras for both professional and personal users, the device’s future is far from assured.
Gadgets

Digital camera sales defy smartphone onslaught

For now the ‘pro-sumer’ segment demands higher-end camera features than what more convenient mobile phone cameras offer

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Technology

Four cameras that leave smartphones in the dust

For entrepreneurs who rely on having a camera handy (contractors, realtors, landscapers, we're talking to you), the optics embedded in today's smartphones won't cut it. To wit: The 8-megapixel lens in the iPhone 4S falls short of the ultra-crisp 12-megapixel images captured by today's average digital pocket camera.