Michael Hainsworth Media Tour - BlackBerry KEY2 - Global News Halifax By Ethan Gans

Summer is flying by unfortunately, but that also means that back-to-school is quickly approaching. Tech. Expert Michael Ainsworth joins us this morning with all the latest on the back-to-school technology on the market and what you need to get for your kids before they head back to school good morning. Don't shoot the messenger now if school is coming back, I brought for you today, toys and gadgets for the little kids going back to school, but also for the big kids, too. I start with the little ones. Now I've got a 12-year-old, daughter, and I've got tubs and tubs of Lego it's stored in the basement.

Because. She doesn't play with it any more right, but he blocks circuit builder.120 is what I'm showing you here, because this one takes all those blocks. You've already got that big investment in it renews your child's interest in it, because it's a circuit, builder technology, it's all about stem your science, technology, engineering and math. So there's cause and effect. You build this in one way.

Mm-Hmm you would get a reaction. You could hold down buttons, you can make things fly you can make it move as well and anticlimactic yeah. What about it? Is that, because you've already got your kid interested in those blocks, I mean my good dozen they're really getting back into it again, so there's a bunch of different models that do all sorts of different things, not just stuff that flies or when my battery's running low, not so much with that in mind, we also have another great stem product for kids, because you Lord he doesn't have to end when's. The class lets out. At the end of the day, parents are generally really reluctant to give their kid a glowing rectangle to stare at all.

Okay, but let's give them that for the professor Maxwell's 4d science and chemistry set well, I was a child of the 70, so I was the last generation have a chemistry set where you could actually burn down the house and I almost did this. You don't worry about any of that. So, in addition to the experiments that within the book, you can open up and do the experiments, you slap the before d goggles on, and you have augmented reality exactly, and these come to life while you're playing with them. So there's a bunch of different kids that you can get with anything about. It is that your child can be interested in science in a whole new way.

I find it interesting the progression of this, though because I just get really excited having a microscope, and now you can look at it in 3d goggles. That's not really! That long ago, things have definitely evolved. Yeah, I'm certain to feel like an old man with all that. That's for sure, okay. So that's the that's the kids stuff.

Okay, we're also sending bigger kids off to school, maybe they're a design, student, or they're going into film school, and that's where this LG 38-inch ultra-wide screen comes into play. They curved it. They had to curve it I've seen these actually isn't that amazing. If this is an HDR 10 screen and for anybody in the graphic design world, they know what that means. High dynamic range, so the colors are precisely what they need to be, and the resolution is remarkably strong as well, but even if you're, not a graphic design student, maybe used a regular student, you take a screen of this size.

You split one side, there's your research, it's not Wikipedia, kids and on the other side, there's the essay that you're working right, so you've got all of that. You know remarkable package for any student. The beauty, of course, is that, at the end of the day, you can just kick back in the dorm and watch Netflix on it because. This is perfectly made from Michael Bay movies. Is it not? It is of a salty purpose.

Yeah, there's 21 by 9 right out of a movie theater come on. This wouldn't be the geeks and beads podcast. If we didn't have a great pair of headphones and that's what we're looking at down there- and this is the steel series, artist, Pro headset, those are nice yeah. Let's try them on you. Try them on because guys are high.

Dynamic range, audio headphones. It usually a really heavy. When you get that kind of technology, how light does that feel they're really light, but are they? Are they noise-cancelling no they're, not noise-canceling, but what they are is they're light they're rechargeable they've got the microphone on it, so that when you're playing fortnight you can smack talk to kids, but you just kicked along the way? These are very nice yeah, and the neat thing too, is that in the eSports world they have tournaments. When you win things, you can win little panels that fit onto the side. You can pop the panel off and put your specialty panel on the side so that your geek cred use maintain all right.

Speaking of cred, you've got a minute left. Yeah, there's nothing more incredible than a blackberry when it comes to security, and this is the key to which has a 20%, larger keyboard and thumbprint reader. This of course, perfect selfies with a dual camera nice on the front and of course, because it's blackberry, it's got the ultimate security. And, finally, let's look at that: don't forget the batteries' mode. This is the e set.

Now the thing about these sets' internet security. Yes, I'll give this exactly now your get your child's going to be wandering the world on Wi-Fi networks that you don't know about. Keep them protected, not infected right. In addition to that, it's pretty it actually just sits in the background. You'd have to think about it, which is good for this sort of thing.

If it's boring, that's doing its job right, but if your kid loses a two thousand dollar laptop you just gave them. It will find it for you. It's almost like one of those trackers on the iPhones. That's right.

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