Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup 09/04-09/10

Lenovo outs two funny new videos for its Moto Mods

Hello Games promises to expand the ‘No Man’s Sky’ universe further

Facebook experiments with showing highlights of your friends’ status updates

Art of Fusion: a stress-free day trip with new 2017 Ford Fusion Energi Platinum

eSports and Northern Arena makes a big splash at Fan Expo Canada

Philips Hue White Ambiance has the right light for the right moment

Alienware launches new VR-capable gaming notebooks

Android Wear gets a touch of high fashion thanks to Michael Kors

Pebble's latest software update focuses on health tracking

Monster unveils latest activity-focused iSport headphones

LG unveils V20, company’s first Android Nougat-powered smartphone

Apple's iPhone 7 introduces water resistance, improved camera performance and the removal of the headphone jack

Sony announces high resolution PlayStation 4 Pro

Sony offers even more gaming options with PlayStation 4 Slim

Instagram kills off photo maps feature

Smart contact lens wins national James Dyson Award

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

Samsung Galaxy Note7 is suspected to have caused a house fire in South Carolina

The Apple Beat: 7 Takeaways from Apple’s iPhone 7 launch event

FAA warns passengers not to use Samsung's Galaxy Note7 in planes

Samsung Canada seeks assistance of Health Canada to expedite recall of Galaxy Note7 units

Sony announces new flagship 4K and HD Action Cams

DJI and Epson partner to bring POV drone goggles

REUTERS/Charles Platiau

Wouldn’t it be cool to get a first-person perspective of the videos drones are take? DJI and Epson are hoping to bring that to life. The two companies are working to expand DJI’s SDK to let Epson’s Moverio BT-300 AR glasses work with the Phantom, Matrice, and Inspire lines. DJI will also optimize its DJI GO app to work with the Moverio. It’ll give users both a first person view of the drone’s camera while still keeping direct light of sight with the drone. With this partnership, you’ll soon be able to pick up the Moverio glasses on DJI’s site.

Source: Engadget

WhatsApp Android beta version gets Snapchat-like stickers

We’ve reached a point where social media apps have started to employ similar features in hopes of keeping its user base or attracting more people into its platform. The latest example is another Facebook-owned company copying Snapchat. WhatsApp released an update for its Android beta app that introduces stickers and the ability to doodle on messages.

Aside from that the app gets pseudo-flash for taking night-time selfies and emojis will start to appear larger in chats when you don’t include text with it. If you use Facebook Messenger, that messaging app has the same feature (re: the bigger emojis).

Source: The Next Web

Google Photos shares Motion Stills features to iOS app

After releasing Motion Stills for iOS a few months ago, Google integrates some of its features in the Photos app. Motion Stills allowed you to create GIF-like moving images that had frozen backgrounds. Photos can now edit these Live Photos for you to make them more stable. After that, the app will let you keep the file as a video clip in your camera roll.

Google Photos on iOS also gets a new organizational features like being able to sort photos in albums chronologically and select thumbnails for the faces of your friends in People. The new features are set to head to Android and web versions of Google Photos as well.

Source: Engadget