Canadian designed lasers light up the Super Bowl XLIV halftime show

Phoro by Touchdown Entertainment Inc, / Brad Dun
The Super Bowl half-time performance has become one of the music industry’s highest profile events, with recent acts such as Prince, U2, Greenday, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, the Rolling Stones and Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson plus Sir Paul McCartney taking part. Did you know that the pyro and the lasers were provided by a Canadian company? Read on and find out more about the awesome tech of big show effects.

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DVD Review: UP

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Disney and Pixar’s animated feature UP proves that a great quest can turn even the most unusual set of characters into intensely engaging heroes. 

UP starts by tugging hard at the heartstrings by revealing the bittersweet life story of 78-year-old balloon salesman Carl Fredericksen (voiced by Ed Asner). Carl is introduced as a gruff little old man grieving over his wife’s death while dealing with the threat of being sent away to a senior’s home and losing his beloved old house.

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2010 Canadian Auto Show shrinks, previews upcoming models

The Mercedes Benz SLS AMG Gullwing was one of the highlights of the 2010 Canadian Auto Show

We've been covering the Canadian Auto Show in Toronto for years and were sad and a bit disappointed at what we got to see this year, or rather, what we didn't. Past shows were so huge that it could take you a whole day to cover the exhibit spaces in the North and South Toronto Convention Centre and the cavernous Skydome (Rogers Centre).

Well, the Rogers Centre was dropped this year and fewer car companies were represented - a pity, really. A sign of difficult times, I guess.

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Sony's TX5 and H55 point and shoot cameras announced

Sony recently unveiled two new Cyber-shot point-and-shoot digital still cameras (models DSC-TX5 and DSC-H55). Slim enough to fit in your pocket or purse at less than an inch thin -- about the size of a deck of cards. Get to know these new cameras after the jump.

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