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Review: Olympus E-PL3

My first digital camera was an Olympus – a 1.3 megapixel brick! I have spent the last couple of weeks playing with the Olympus E-PL3, giving my DSLR camera gear a break for a little while. Its my first time trying out this new category of micro mirrorless digital camera so I really had no idea what to expect. The first thing you notice is the form factor. Its small. Smaller than it looked in photos for sure....

Review: Hydrophobia

Hydrophobia by Dark Energy Digital is out this week on Xbox Live Arcade as the first Episode in their new series. Set in the near future amidst a population flood, our protagonist Kate Wilson must battle more literal flooding as she attempts to save herself from a watery demise. She lives and works as an engineer aboard the Queen of the World – an enormous ocean vessel the size of a city. It is launching as a...

Review: Flip MinioHD – The Next Generation

We’ve checked out some of the previous incarnations of Flip Video camera when they hit Canadian store shelves and had seen a lot of potential in the product line early on. Recently, we got a nice surprise bit of news though: A new Flip Video camera is hitting shelves. It’s a new generation of the Flip MinioHD and it’s worth checking out. It looks similar to the previous incarnations but we...

Review: Living Colours

We first saw the Philips living Colours in 2006 when it was still a concept design and fell in love instantly. It looked fantastic and was such an exciting idea. A couple of years later in 2008 we saw the commercialized version and it looked a little grim. It had lost a lot of it’s initial charm and was a shadow of it’s former self. now another two years later in 2010 I’ve actually gotten my...

Time: for poor people.

Some people think that telling the difference between day and night would be one of the easiest things you could do and being able to afford a $300 000 a mere piece of jewelry would be one of the hardest. This watch is not for them. Behold the Day & Night watch by Romain Gerome.  For those who see telling the time as a peasants hobby and for whom it is always spend o’clock.  It originally sold for...
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