PlayME Canadian National Digital Theatre Launches

By Sonya Davidson

Toronto-based Expect Theatre launches PlayME, an exciting new initiative that is set to change the playing ground for Canadian theatre at home and internationally. PlayME will be a national digital theatre that presents an annual season of new theatre scripts in podcast format, raising the profile of Canadian plays and playwrights as well as offering audiences high-quality drama for free.

Expect will take some of the most interesting current and innovative un-produced or under-produced scripts in the country, audio record them, add post-production elements (music and sound effects) and release them as podcasts - basically presenting a season of modern radio drama, lining up with the growing trend of  "on-demand" entertainment.

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CES 2016: Incipio unveils new ClamCase keyboards for latest iPads

Incipio purchased ClamCase, maker of keyboard cases for iPads that make them look and feel more like MacBooks. Now, the company is releasing its latest hardware. It is interesting to note that these ClamCase products have extra features like battery chargers for iPhones, keyboard backlighting and even an integrated screen for notifications. Hit jump fpr the lineup of products coming in Q2 of this year.

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CES 2016: LG's flexible OLED display points to the future of tablets and mobile devices

LG has come up with the most impressive concept so far at CES 2016. The 18-inch flexible OLED display above is surprisingly thin and can be rolled up like a newspaper or a magazine while maintaining a high resolution image. Flexible displays are nothing new, this is just the next step to the curved displays that were all the rage a few years ago as well as smaller, fabric-like displays we've seen in the past.

Where LG has succeeded is making OLED displays that offer great potential for even thinner or flexible mobile devices, wearables and even wraparound displays. It's nice to see that displays aren't just getting thinner and offering more resolution but are now more malleable for various uses.

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CES 2016: Ford's Drone-to-Vehicle tech aimed at emergency services and business efficiency

Ford and drone maker DJI are imagining a world in which vehicles and drones become more capable and efficient working together, and are announcing a challenge to develop the software to make that possible.

Working with DJI, the world leader in professional-grade drone systems and software, Ford invites innovators to participate in the DJI Developer Challenge to create drone-to-vehicle communications using Ford SYNC, AppLink or OpenXC. The goal is a surveying system for the United Nations Development Program to inspect emergency zones inaccessible to even the most versatile vehicles.

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