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the iFly experience
indoor skydiving!

Theragun Elite
Home massaging made easy

The Benefits of Technology for Marketing
How will you use it?

Rokus upgrade their units
Streaming, faster and cheaper

LG G7 One
Android One, with great tunes

LG G7 ThinQ smart phone
Smart, and musical!

Spring cleaning your tech
Keeping your computer clean

TP-Link AC2300 router
fast, affordable streaming

Panasonic's combo oven
Grills, nukes, steams, more!

TP-Link Archer AC5400
Multi band home router

Glider Gloves
use your phone in winter!

LG & Dreamwave Speakers
tunes that'll jump start a car!

Summit+, Aurora and MicroG
Vapourizers for your herbs?

Microsoft Surface Book and Pro
flexible laptop/tablet/PC

BenQ's Hatha Lamp
nearly home theatre perfect

WestJet Connect
A new in flight "service"

How to sleep with a smart phone
..well, sleep better

Valentine's Day 2015
cheap tech tricks and gifts

BlueDriver vehicle diagnostic
Bluetooth-powered security

Panasonic KXPRD262 DECT phone
interacts with your cell

Gran Turismo 6
evolutionary upgrade

ZAGG, iHome iPad Air cases
Bluetooth keyboards, or not

Buying a computer in 2014
A feature from an IT Pro

Call of Duty: Ghosts
FPS gets a new lease on life

LapDawg O-Stand & Hercules
Tablet stand & backpack

NextIssue Canada
Digital magazines

Etón Rukus Solar Bluetooth speaker
& Bose's updated SoundLink

Canon's Image Square
a new, non-retail retail outlet

Escort Redline radar detector
Long range safety

iHome Bluetooth Speaker
Tiny, flexible speakerphone!

MyTrak Biggest Loser and FitDesk
Updating the downsizing

ZAGGkeys, Epson Labelmaker
and Eagle Rock Rocks again!

Fretlight Guitar Learning System
Don't Fret! Play!

Griffin/Digit's Beacon/ePillow
Smart phone/iPad stand

Samsung Galaxy S Smart Phones
Swiss Army Knife of phones?

HSTi Wireless Media Stick
& Logitech's "Couch Mouse"

simplehuman Sensor Pump
Soap, without Cooties

Gran Turismo 5
Great Driving Sim

Sonos S5 Music System
and Kodak Wi-Fi photo frame

Ionic Clean - and Blur
Spot-free Cleaner & Game

LIVIO Internet Radio iPhone App
and less worthy ones

Roboform Online
Never forget a password!

Cyber Clean
Goo for your toys and car

Duracell Power Players
Recharge
!

uSHIP.COM and EARTHCAM.COM
Tools for shippers, more

SNORE-PRO
For Marital Bliss?

GRIFFIN WINDOWSEAT
iPhone Car Mount

MOVIE DOWNLOAD SITES
Different Online Experiences

IN-GAME ADVERTISING
an insult to consumers

THIRSTY LIGHT
Plant care, digitally

SIRIUS STILETTO
Serious satellite hardware

BRIGGS & RILEY CARRYON
Easing your Notebook PC use

LAPWORKS ACCESSORIES
Easing your Notebook PC use

VRINGO
Video ringtones for cellphones

BIONIC EYE IMPLANTS
Hope for the blind?

WIRELESS POWER
Get rid of batteries forever?

Sony Ericsson W810i Walkman Phone
Everything, to everyone?

AVOCENT EMERGE A/V SENDER
Stream your images wirelessly

NOISEBUSTERS
Noise Canceling Headphones

THE CAR CHIP
Trackin' your Wheels

PANASONIC VOICE 'CORDER
Digital Dictation Device

MOTOROLA V3 RAZR &
Noka 6670 Cell Phones

SHARP PLASMACLUSTER
a breath of fresh air!

IN A WIRELESS MOOD?
Tracking Mood Disorders

READERS' QUESTIONS
We Try to Help!

TERRORISM, 2001
Is technology good or bad?

INTERNET SCAMBUSTERS
Buyer? Beware!

RCA LCOS TV
New Little Big Screen

DEMANDING SERVICE
Perseverence Pays!

SPACE ELEVATOR
Stairway to Heaven?

APSTATION/YEPP
Pleasurable portables

BRAIN SALAD SURGERY
Dynamite DVD Audio Disc

TECH BRIEFING 2001
Congress? Butt out!

Panasonic Breadmaker
makes bread while you loaf!

Roll Ranger
Finds the end of your tape roll

Pluto TV
"Doggone" interesting free streamer

Linearflux Hypercharger XX
charging on the go?

Roku Streaming Stick 4K
new gadget joins new Roku programming

Vapourizers 2019
Imbibing, in various ways

BACtrack portable breathalyzer
helping to keep our roads safe

Hydrology9 vapourizer
Like a bong, but no smoke

Roku Express, and Lifepack
Streaming media, nifty storage

Gift Jeenie and Waze
Apps to help you give, and go

TP-Link router & smart plug and Microsoft's Arc Touch Mouse

LampChamp & Bud's Red Light Glass
Power, and glory!

CHANGEdesk
it rises to your occasion!

WeKast wireless presenter
and a Blumoo update

Flying? Send your bag via courier
a TechnoFile rant

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
powerful, but frustrating

Acer B326HK 4K monitor
32 inches of video goodness

Renny Home and Tip'nSplit
Gadgets for home and pub!

Parrot Jumping Sumo & Rolling Spider
The droids you're looking for?

BACtrack portable breathalyzer
Keeping it legal

CES 2015
seeking the future of tech

Tablift, Belkin keyboard and Nomad
more stuff for your tablet.

Snugg iPad Air case
& Bluetooth shower speaker

Parrot Zik and the speeCup
Bluetooth for various needs

Actiontech MyWirelessTV
HD in any room, wirelessly!

Parrot MiniKit Neo & Renny ringer
Bluetooth aids

Households threaten broadcasters?
It's their own fault!

Swann's Bolt HD camcorder
and Lifesize Portion diet control

TechnoFile's most Intriguing of 2012
The best we played with

Summer Travel with tech tips
Heed it, or lose it!

Duracell Rugged USB drive
Big storage, small price

FitDesk exercise bicycle
Shrink while you work

Biggest Loser - and Uniblue Utilities
Cutting your, & your PC's, fat

Bose SoundLink Bluetooth Speaker
A longer term test

Olympus DM-620 voice recorder
for portable digital files

Leader Impression Tab
iPad on the cheap

iPad Accessories
stands, speakers, games

Smart Phones Primer
What they are, what they do

CES 2011
Innovations, Introductions

OHM Bicycles
Power to the Peddler

Element Task Light and MotorMouse
Illuminating ideas!

MagicJack & Epsonphoto scanner
Cheap phones, and nice pics

Mountain Hardwear Jackets
& Sanyo hand warmers

Gadgets of 2009
TechnoFile's Most Interesting

BlueAnt Bluetooth Devices
Headsets, Speakerphones...

LaCie CINEMA CLASSIC DISK
Multimedia and more

AUDIO BONE PHONES
and a neat garage door closer

ZISZOR!
Portable Shredding

TEXT TO LANDLINE SERVICE
Putting voice to your text

REPLAY A/V
recording from the 'net

MOTHERBOARD GIFTS
recycling for fun and profit

PALTALK ONLINE COMMUNITY
Next best thing to being there?

BLACKBERRY 880/ LG CHERRY
Stuff to get hung up on...

PIRACY HOLLYWOOD'S #1 PROBLEM?
Nope. It's attitude

DRAGON NATURALLYSPEAKING 9
Talk, don't type

KENSINGTON IPOD ACCESSORIES
More Flexible Tunes

TV OVER THE WEB
5 Billion channels?

LAPTOP DESK, FREEDOM ANTENNA
Lifestyle enhancers?

DOCUPEN PORTABLE SCANNER
Images on the Go

SAFECORD CABINET
Organizing your wires

COOLER SOUND CASE
Chillin' with your Tunes

PANASONIC LUMIX DMC-FZ5
5 megapixel digicam

KYOCERA / MOTOROLA
Slider, Blade, and V300

DYMO LABELMAKER
New Tech Old Tech

FREEDOM BOX
Web surfing for the Blind

CANADIAN TAX WARE
Ease FIling Angst

FLASHY WEB SITES? NOT!
Keep 'em Clean and Clear

POPUP AD ASSAULT
Is Your Desktop Safe?

CANADIAN HDTV
Dishing out Great TV

CES 2001
Gadgets to Excess

FINDING SERVICE
Where to Go? What to Do?

NAPSTER 2?
Are Illegal DVD's next?

LOONEY TUNERS?
Techno Q&A

ALBERTA SUPERNET
Wiring a Canadian Province

HOTELS GO BROADBAND
Fairmont Adds High Tech

Ekrin B37 Massager
rubs you the right way!

Utillian 421 and LITL1 Vapes
small, cheap, mostly great

HP Tango Printer
print stuff from anywhere

Scout Portable Power rocks
as does the Roku platform

Gab - an alternative to Twitter?
for those tired of censorship?

What happened?
Where's the paperless office?

Replay Capture Suite
Scoop vids, tunes, from the web

Vivaldi web browser
new, secure, private?

Firefly 2 and Arizer Air II
Vapes for all occasions?

Arizer Solo II and Vie
Vaporizers for high and lo budgets

Higher Standards Kit
for cleaning your vapes

Tablo Dual OTA DVR
Kensington's USB/power adapter

Female Forecaster
shooting sexual fish in a barrel

New Everyday Technology
A special feature

Big Brother 2017
your TV may watch you!

LG G6 preview
a great new smart phone

Arizer Solo and Arizer Air
vapes for home and away

a Virtual Reality primer
we look at a couple of demos

Arizer Extreme Q and G-Pen Elite
more vapes for your herbs?

LG Rolly keyboard and G5 phone
Portability, and VR

Best Buy's Marshall Fridge
and Joe's Hot Dog Stand

LG G PAD III
a nice, hand held tablet

Online radio stations
Better choice, free!

Acer Liquid Jade Z smart phone
a phone for audiophiles?

The ubiquitous Internet
It's everywhere!

Consumer Electronics show 2015
a virtual visit

TechnoFile's most interesting, 2014
Gadgets galore!

Samsung Galaxy S5 and SIII Mini
Big or small, a phone for all!

Kenwood hand blender
and Belkin Netcam HD

Nexus 5 & Sony Xperia Z1
two good choices

Bose Quiet Comfort 20
Fine noise cancelling ear buds

Acer Aspire Z all-in-one PC
& Samsung's Galaxy Mega

Samsung Galaxy S4 and Rugby III
smartness, ruggedness

VitaSound PAE-300
hear better

Media apps? Who needs 'em?
A special TechnoFile rant

FitDesk, Slimcoach update
Half way there!

Ooma Telo
Home phone, at home, cheap

Booktango and Belkin
Publish online & tablet clean

DXG-5F9V 3D Camcorder
3D on a budget

2011's Most Intriguing Products
from Home Theater to Toddy

Livio Bluetooth Car Radio Kit
and Verbatim's Ergo Mouse

Acer Iconia Tab
iPad competitor does Windows

Samsung Galaxy Tab
And Sculpteo's Mini-Statues

Toddy Gear
Keeps smart phones clean

TechnoFile's 2010 Awards
Most Interesting Tech

Olympus SP-800UZ Digital Camera
14 megapixels, plus 720p

Canon "Scan-tini" & Lapdesk
"Moving" Experiences

StarTech and Star Wars
Cloning disks and TomToms

GE Nighthawk Platinum Headlight
Replacement Bulbs

Belkin Home Base & Family Tracker
Share peripherals & Big Bro

ChiliPad Mattress Pad
Warms or cools your bed!

Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS1 Camera
Easy, sophisticated HD video

G-TRACK USB MICROPHONE
a "sound" investment

CARDO S-800 / PLANON PRINTSTIK
Mobile comm. and printing

SPINSPOTTER / THE ERGONIZER
Cut BS; Organize your desk

THE ECOJOHN
For bears in the woods?

iTrip AutoPilot
iTunes for the Road

LOGITECH DRIVING FORCE GT
and Flogos?

FLYFUSION PENTOP COMPUTER
for tech-savyy kids

TASSIMO COFFEE BREWER
Good to the last drip

KODAK DIGITAL PICTURE FRAME
Displays your digital pics

ROOMBA VACUUMING ROBOTS
a long term update

THE AUDEO
Mind control - for the good?

LG FUSIC CELL PHONE
Your own radio station?

SUPERCONDUCTING 2007
A year for breakthroughs?

PANASONIC DIGITAL CAMERAS
High or low end?

MOTO SLVR and SAMSUNG -a900
Slender Cell Phones

3D LASER SIGNPOSTS
New tech Skywriting?

TARGUS DOCKING STATION
What's up, Dock?

ROOMBA SCHEDULER
Vaccum Droid Really Sucks!

THE BROADBAND HOME
Networking your music

VONAGE VoIP SERVICE
Every call is a local call!

OLYMPUS C-5060
Serious Snaps

     
     

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