The Cool Duality of Samsung's Dual View Digital Cam

Just when you thought digital camera makers had run out of new ideas for peddling their latest point and shoot wares along came Samsung’s Dual View in 2009 and they just trotted out a trio of new models at 2011 CES to keep DV fresh.

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Et Tu Setu?

Herman Miller has done it again.

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Dyson Bladeless Fan is Coolest Appliance of the Year

I stumbled upon a Dyson Air Multiplier in person at BB & Beyond the other day and they're as cool in IRL (in real life) as on the blogs.

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Traveling the Seas by Necker Nymph is the way to go

Sir Richard Branson’s winged sub which carries three (two riders and a pilot) can dive 130 feet and is available for under the sea joy rides. Weekly rentals starting at $25,000 and are available on the billionaire’s private Caribbean island.

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Hall of Babedom: Anna Friel

Her endearing ABC drama Pushing Daisies may have gotten the hook, but this saucy English thespian came back in the limelight again as Will Ferrell's research assistant in Land of the Lost.

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Cangenuity: The Tipping Point of Pop Academic Tomes

Dateline: 2000 With an engineering professor at the British University of Waterloo for a dad and a Jamaican psychotherapist for a mom, it's no wonder Malcolm Gladwell ended up looking like a cross between Albert Einstein and Bob Marley. But Gladwell's claim to fame goes well be …

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Cangenuity: The Medium is the Message

Dateline: 1964 Marshall McLuhan coined this oft-invoked aphorism in his 1964 opus Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man.

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Cangenuity: Generation X

Dateline: 1991 The demographic and pop culture cohort born between 1963 and 1977 came of age during a time of economic stability and domestic peace in the U.S.

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Cangenuity: Sowing the seeds of Cyberspace

Dateline: 1984 Vancouver science fiction author William Gibson, popularized the concept in Neuromancer, a novel fêtted with the sci-fi geek-lit trifecta capturing the Hugo, Nebula and the Phillip K.

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Cangenuity: The Birth of Modern Peacekeeping

Dateline: 1956 "We need action not only to end the fighting but to make peace," said the Canadian globetrotting diplomat and future Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson.

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Cangenuity: Kraftwerk & Daft Punk could have never got their synth on w/oThe Electric Sackbut leading the way for synths

Dateline: 1948 As a young scientist during the Second World War, Port Arthur's Hugh Le Caine worked as a physicist for the National Research Council, helping to develop a radar system that was later implemented by multiple branches of the armed forces.

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Cangenuity: The Birth of the V-Chip

Dateline: 1998 This program-blocking technology which allows parents to buffer their childrens' viewing choices was inspired by a grisly chapter in Canadian history.

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Cangenuity: To think Ski-doo was almost Ski-dog

Dateline: 1959 The iconic Canadian brand recently celebrated its 50th anniversary with the release of the 2009 models.

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Cangenuity-Canadian Tire Money

Dateline: 1958 Muriel Billes, the wife of company co-founder A.J. Billes, came up with the money idea that was pure marketing genius.

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Cangenuity- Programming language JAVA owes much to the Doobie Brothers

Dateline: 1991 The flashbulb moment for revolutionary Calgarian programmer James Gosling came at of all places, a Doobie Brothers concert.

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Cangenuity: Pita Pit and the Fast Food vs Nutrition Ceasefire

Dateline: 1995 Fast food and nutrition have long been warring factions, but Nelson Lang and John Sotiriadis decided it was high time for a ceasefire.

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Cangenuity: James Naismith & the Birth of B-Ball

Yorkshireman James Henry Atkinson's ingenious rodent-slaying Little Nipper, patented in 1897, still dominates the market over a century later. Yes, it has become a business cliché, but springing the next mousetrap remains the goal of the world's top innovators.

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Cangenuity: The Zipper Story

Dateline: : 1913 If it weren't for Gideon Sundback, the expression "You're flying low" would never have entered the vernacular. And what would a world be like if jeans only came in cumbersome button-fly?

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Cangenuity: Pondering Plexiglass

Dateline: 1931 William Chalmers was pursuing a PhD in chemistry at McGill when he happened upon an economical way to make the transparent shatter resistant polymethyl methacrylate using acetone and hydrogen cyanide.

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Cangenuity-The Birth of Instant Replay

Dateline: 1955 George Retzlaff, the founding producer of Hockey Night in Canada forever changed the experience of TV sports viewing when he introduced the concept of in-game instant replay.

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Cangenuity-IMAX

Dateline: 1970 At EXPO '67 in Montreal, multi-screen films had viewers blown away.

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Cangenuity-The Green Garbage Bag

Dateline: 1950 Q: How many men does it take to make a waste management milestone? A: Three.

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Cangenuity: Chowing down on Poutine

Fries smothered with cheese curds and drowned in hot brown gravy is certainly Quebec's most magnifique export. It has become an indelible part of la belle province's cultural cuisine.

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