Videos of Lumia 1020 show of pro-style software features

A series of videos from Nokia focusing on the newly-launched Lumia 1020 show off the 41-megapixel smartphone's various features as well as its strength as a camera. So far, the Nokia Pro Camera app looks very promising. With the ability to take both large oversampled photos and smaller, regular sized smartphone camera photos, users now have the option of blowing up a scene and picking out details and making those the focal point of the picture. So that's what they meant by Zoom. Reinvented.

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Urbanears Re:Plattan: Eco-friendly ear cans

Listening to your favorite tunes through these headphones isn’t the only that will make you feel good. The environment-friendly Urbanears Re:Plattan are made from unused parts of past seasons but still have the same great sound quality and ZoundPlug feature. Also, when you purchase a pair of headphones, a portion of the sale goes to the protection of the Costa Rican Rainforest. How’s that for a feel-good purchase?

Each pair of Re:Plattans have built-in personal IDs with GPS coordinates that covers five square meters of rainforest that get protected when the pair is purchased. It retails for $95 and can be bought at Lukes Drug Mart (Calgary), Walrus (Vancouver), Still Life (Victoria), Canada Computers (Ontario), Moog Audio (Montreal/Toronto), and Neon (Montreal).

Surface RT to get $150 price drop over the weekend

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

First, they bundled the Touch and Type Cover with every new tablet sold, then they started pummeling the iPad in various TV spots, now it looks like Microsoft is hoping that a $150 price reduction will make the Surface RT tablet more enticing to consumers.

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Drive Assist: Drive with ease

Have the best assistant while you’re on the road with Drive Assist. This iOS driver assistant app has everything from a speedometer, trip computer, compass, music player, and integrated with the new Google Maps. It turns the iPhone or iPad into your all-in-one navigation and entertainment system in the car.