Review: Glider Gloves touchscreen gloves

We've seen all types of gloves that allow you to use touchscreens. From thick wool gloves with particles to skinny gloves with conductive strips. Some are cumbersome and others lack accuracy. Glider Gloves hopes to offer users the best of both world's with their unique approach.

Whether we like it or not, we interact with our smartphones and tablets more than ever before. Now that the colder weather requires we keep our fingers warm, it becomes a big hassle to have to remove our gloves to answer a phone call or look up information. Products like Glider Gloves (Starting at $24.99) enable users to manipulate their touchscreens without taking off their gloves.   

I've been using the Glider gloves most of Fall Season and found them to be perfect for stashing in my coat pocket for when it gets a bit too cold. Using the gloves on various mobile devices presented no problem as they managed to control touch screens quite well. The Glider gloves also proved to be quite quite warm and very comfortable.

For colder weather, the thicker Winter Style variant of the Glider Gloves might be a better idea as I found that the tips of my fingers still felt cold despite wearing the gloves, so your mileage will vary.

Glider Gloves are some of the best types of these touchscreen capable products we've used and they are a vast improvement over other gloves that felt a little rought and didn't handle as nicely. They are worth considering for anyone who has to be out in the cold and absolutely needs to interact with their mobile devices.

4 out of 5

Review: Martian Passport series smartwatch

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The smartwatch segment of wearable computing is starting to explode. While everyone seems to agree that a smartwatch should have a touchscreen, a variety of apps, and the ability to change watchfaces at will, there are some manufacturers who are bucking the trend.

Take for example Martian, who makes a line of Passport watches that it says are smartwatches and which do interface with iPhones and Androids.

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Doodle 4 Google Competition for Kids

By Sonya Davidson

We all love seeing the different designs around the Google logo. Often the logos are dressed up to highlight a special date or to pay tribute to someone special. They're fun and sometimes surprising. 

For the first time, Google Canada is organizing a national Doodle 4 Google contest for kids. This year's theme is "If "I could invent anything , I would invent..."  Students from kindergarten to grade 12 are invited to submit their logo designs for the Google.ca homepage. The winning doodler will received a $10,000 scholarship a Google Chromebook and a $10,000 grant to their current school along with a trip to Toronto to view a speical exhibition of the top doodle entries at the Royal Ontario Museum in 2014. The winning doodle will also be featured on the homepage for 24 hours. Hit jump for more information and submission requirements.

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Canadian Reviewer was on the floor at the first annual Gentleman's Expo!

Text and photos by Corey Herscu

Being November, commonly known to guys as prostate cancer awareness month or "Movember", it was timely to attend the first annual Gentleman’s Expo over at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in downtown Toronto. The show was, as you can guess, about all things manly and gentleman-like with activities such as: scotch tasting, charity poker (with proceeds going to Movember), hair cuts, straight razor shaves, shoe shines and a lot more. Hit jump for details on the event.

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