10-year-old entrepreneur steps into philanthropic 'Love Sandal' startup

Toronto's Abi Smithson is 10 years old and the youngest member of Ryerson University's Digital Media Zone. She started Love Sandal two years ago. “The Love Sandal was an idea I had this summer when I was enrolled in the Girls Learning Code Inventors Camp in downtown Toronto.  I noticed my Mom had ugly tan lines on the top of her foot and thought what if the tan line was a heart, and the Love Sandal was born. Love Sandal is about chasing your dreams and following your heart!"  Love Sandal donates 10% of its sales to Sick Kids. Read more about Abi's exploits in her Indiegogo page. Hit jump for the rest of the release.

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Google announces Inbox Gmail app for Android and iOS

Google just rannounced Inbox by Google an Android and iOS standalone app for Gmail that's designed to organize email better for smartphones and make mail more actionable.

At first glance, it looks and feels like a mix of Google Now, Google Plus and gMail.Currently available on an invite-only basis, Inbox was an idea that sprang out of Google’s Kitchener-Waterloo offices and Canadian engineers were part of the team created Inbox. You can learn more about it on Google's blog.

iPhone 6 and 6 Plus get extensible lens system from Olloclip

Apple's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are two of the best personal cameras in the market right now. Olloclip promises to make them even better with the new 4-IN-1 photo lens.

The all-new redesigned 4-IN-1 Photo Lens features three great new innovations:

1. Front and rear-facing camera design — to capture the perfect selfie or any favorite moment in fisheye, wide-angle or 10x & 15x macro.
2. Fits both iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models
3. Wearable through an included customizable pendant and can be clipped to a backpack, lanyard, key ring or just about anything.

It will be available for purchase by late November. Check it out here.

Review: iPad Air 2

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The iPad Air 2 packs an impressive amount of computing power in a device that’s barely as thick as this month’s issue of The New Yorker, it is also the most connected tablet, and one of the fastest Internet and LTE data devices available today.

Since 2010, Apple’s iPad has kicked off a revolution in mobile tablet computing, attracted an army of failed copycats, expanded its product line into the iPad mini, and sold over 225 million units. 

That’s no small feat for a product that had to reinvent tablet computing from the ground up, and which created its own business, largely in the shadow of the highly popular iPhone and its iOS operating system. Here's what I think of the latest iteration of the world's most successful tablet.

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