Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup 01/03-01/09

Bing reveals top Canadian searches of 2015

CES 2016: Alcatel OneTouch to debut Windows 10 tablet

Review: 21.5‑inch iMac with Retina 4K display

Canadians can now buy an unlocked Lumia 550 Windows 10 smartphone for $189.00

CES 2016: Ford's in tune with Apple CarPlay, Android Auto in its 2016 vehicles with Sync 3

CES 2016: ASUS debuts ZenFone Zoom

CES 2016: HTC and Under Armour collaborate on connected fitness system

CES 2016: Naughty America banks on VR for the future of adult entertainment

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

PlayME Canadian National Digital Theatre Launches

Two exclusive Apple Watch Sport models being prepped for Chinese New Year

CES 2016: Fitbit looks to pick a fight with smartwatches with new Blaze wearable

CES 2016: VW's Budd-e concept is a futuristic EV minivan

CES 2016: Samsung pivots its tablet game to Windows 10 with the TabPro S

CES 2016: L’Oreal gets into the wearable tech game

Netflix is now available in over 190 countries

CES 2016: Chevy Bolt EV ushers in age of more affordable electric vehicles

Mockery is a form of flattery for Swiss Alp Watch, a $25,000 mechanical take on Apple Watch

Yahoo reportedly letting go of 10 per cent of its workforce

Microsoft looking to offer its own SIM Cards, data service to Windows 10 users

Lenovo and Google team up to create the first Project Tango smartphone

Tesla to automate car parking with Summon feature

Tesla to automate car parking with Summon feature

There will come a day when your car will be parking itself in your garage, at least Tesla’s cars can do that in the immediate future. The company released a new version of its software for the Model S and Model X. The version 7.1 of the software introduces a new Summon feature, which allows these cars to enter and exit parking spaces on their own. All you need to do is click on a button on the key fob to activate Summon. The Tesla then gets into enter or exit mode for garages and perpendicular parking spaces. For the garage, this uses Homelink garage door tool and it has to be on flat surfaces. The feature, though, is currently in beta but it could work in conjunction with Tesla’s other technologies in the future.

Source: Mashable

J.J. Abrams calls out ‘Star Wars’ merchandise makers for lack of Rey merch

Hasbro has been on the receiving end of criticism as the company failed to include main protagonist Rey (played by Daisy Ridley) in the Star Wars edition of Monopoly, just one of the many merchandise released to promote Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The film’s director J.J. Abrams isn’t happy about this. “It seems preposterous and wrong that the main character of the movie is not well-represented in what is clearly a huge piece of the Star Wars world, in terms of merchandising,” Abrams told reporters on Saturday after a Television Critics Association panel for his new Hulu series 11.22.63.

Hasbro has released a statement earlier this week though that they plan to rectify the situation. "We love the passion fans have for Rey, and are happy to announce that we will be making a running change to include her in the Monopoly: Star Wars game later this year,” they said in the statement. Hasbro said she wasn’t included to avoid revealing a key plot line.

Source: Mashable

Lenovo and Google team up to create the first Project Tango smartphone

If you know Google’s Project Tango program, you’re in for a treat, a consumer version of the smartphone will be coming courtesy of Lenovo. Project Tango is Google’s device that comes with 3D-sensing technology. It allows for a completely different augmented reality experience than what you get from the current crop of smartphones and tablets. Project Tango makes use of computer vision and motion sensors as well as the accelerometer, gyroscope, and camera most mobile devices come with. This will allow for more immersive games and more accurate digital content overlaid on your surroundings.

Of course, something different like this would need new apps, but there are already some available on the Play Store as Google has been giving developer kits for Project Tango tablets since last year. The two companies are also launching an app incubator for those who want to create more apps for the platform. There are no details yet what the phone will look like and how much it’ll cost. But it should come out in the summer of 2016 and it’ll run on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor.

Source: Mashable