This is one way you can listen to music while charging the iPhone 7

Much of the hullaballoo surrounding the new iPhone 7 is the lack of a 3.5mm headphone jack. For those who wanted a wired experience with the new iPhones, you’ll either need to use the supplied headphones from Apple or that adapter to plug in your preferred headset. But the caveat is you can’t listen to music while charging. Belkin has a solution with its new Lightning Audio and Charge Rockstar. The adapter comes with two Lightning ports so you can plug the charge in one port and the supplied adapter in the other. Yes, we can see the tangled mess it can become but at least here’s one solution. The adapter will retail for US$40 or around CA$50. Or you can just spring for the new AirPods or use/buy a Bluetooth headset.

Smart contact lens wins national James Dyson Award

A team of students from the University of Waterloo has won the national leg of the 2016 James Dyson Award with their project Smart Contact Lens Platform. Harry Gandhi, Huayi Gao and Maarij Baig’s company, Medella Health, is developing a smart contact lens that continuously monitors glucose levels in tear film for diabetes management. The information collected is sent to a user’s mobile phone so patients can better manage glucose levels throughout the day. The team will receive $4,000 for further research and development on their project and will progress to the international leg of the award.

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Do you really know your family history? Enter for a chance to win an AncestryDNA Kit

As a child I can recall some of the stories my parents had told me about how they immigrated to Canada. My mom got on a Pan Am jet plane and made Canada her new home with my dad. His family ran a restaurant downtown and grandma never really spoke any English but managed in the predominantly Portuguese neighbourhood they settled into. Everyone in the neighbourhood was from somewhere else and and everyone got along just fine. Food was always the topic that brought everyone together. It was like it's own language. 

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iWork finally gets real-time collaboration

Adding real-time collaboration to Apple’s iWork suite is a feature that’s long overdue. Thankfully, Apple finally announced that it’s available for all its iWork apps, whether you want to simultaneously edit a presentation, spreadsheet, or document. Apple showed this feature off by editing a set of Keynote slides. The feature lets users add text, images, and animations while on your iPhone, iPad, or on the web. The feature also introduces a public and private mode.

Source: The Verge