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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Herman Miller has done it again.
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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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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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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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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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Dateline: 1964 Marshall McLuhan coined this oft-invoked aphorism in his 1964 opus Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man.
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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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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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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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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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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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Dateline: 1959 The iconic Canadian brand recently celebrated its 50th anniversary with the release of the 2009 models.
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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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Dateline: 1991 The flashbulb moment for revolutionary Calgarian programmer James Gosling came at of all places, a Doobie Brothers concert.
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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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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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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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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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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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Dateline: 1970 At EXPO '67 in Montreal, multi-screen films had viewers blown away.
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Dateline: 1950 Q: How many men does it take to make a waste management milestone? A: Three.
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Wonderbra Dateline: 1964
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You like them apples, eh?
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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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You have to respect a man who only writes articles and leaves the seeding for others. Mike is an obvious talent and Newsvine is lucky to have his caliber of writing represented here.
— Lufbery
The first piece I ever read by Mike was in Now, a Toronto alternative weekly, about his stint at Maxim magazine. Half-way through the piece my jaw dropped, because I started reading the article without first looking at the byline, and as I read more and more I said this guy is a really funny and compelling writer, who is it? I look up and see Mike Dojc.
Right then I thought, he might just become Canada's next Stephen Leacock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Leacock) or Mordecai Richtler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordecai_Richler). But now I think he might be on his way to becoming the Maclom Gladwell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Gladwell) of Newsvine and the internets.
BTW, talent seems to run in Mike's family. His old man Yuri, who I work with occasionally, is pretty handy with a camera (http://www.yuridojc.com).
geo
Mike - one of my favorite authors on the Vine, and a breath of fresh air when you can't stand to read one more political piece. In addition to his work online,
Mike is also one of the few 'real world' print journalists here that understands something I have come to know quite well: A journalist is a machine that turns coffee into copy.
When I read an article by Mike there are two possibilities. First, I learn about a sport I had no idea about, or second, I learn more about a sport I thought I knew quite a bit about. It is no wonder he has he work published in hard copy publications, as he is a great writer.
— prompt
Mike has got to be one of the more talented and unique writers on the Vine, covering everything from sports, to relationships and lifestyle, to the oddly entertaining. I started reading his column because it made me feel trendy, then about three articles in I realized, "damn this guy's good."
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