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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: Rocksmith

When Ubisoft announced they were planning to release Rocksmith, a new music game, I was quite sceptical. The Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises were on their last legs, and it looked the music game genre was set to self destruct. They said this new game would be different, that it would use a real musical instrument and teach you to use it. At the time it was impossible to tell what would result. It could have...

Review: Cisco Linksys E3000

Cisco recently launched a new series of Linksys routers in Canada. Linksys has long been synonymous with solid networking gear but now that Cisco has taken the reigns things are being shaken up.  They’re replacing their line of routers with a whole new series. It’s simplified to just three models, representing low, mid and high range. Let’s look a little closer to see what this is all about. For starters the...

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...

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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