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Google’s media streamer is a visual and tactile joy, and a marvel of engineering. But beauty is only skin-deep, and the Nexus Q’s functionality is so severely limited out of the box, it’s difficult for all but the most hardcore audio gadget fanatics to justify the $300 price tag.

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Google’s daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.

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There’s nothing quite as frustrating as getting ready to leave the house in the morning and not being able to find your keys. This is usually more likely to happen on a day when you’re already running late or you overslept and can’t see straight or your kids are missing a shoe, or a glove or their school bags. It’s one of those moments of parenting hell that we’ve all endured. Lucky for all of us, the days of searching the house for our keys are soon to disappear thanks to the folks behind Hone.

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Team Wake Up are heading from Peru this week, all the way to Sydney, Australia to compete in the the 2012 Imagine Cup. I had the chance to have a chat to the team before they headed off about their motivations and expectations.

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My family and I visited Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum (the ROM) over the weekend to take in the museum’s latest exhibit. Ultimate Dinosaurs: Giants From Gondwana opened a few weeks ago and is available as an add-on to the standard ROM admission prices. While the museum already boasts an impressive, permanent dinosaur exhibit, Ultimate Dinosaurs is an entirely different experience and one well worth the price of admission.

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Carbon Audio is formed from a few members of the New design studio in Portland, who set out to make great audio solutions for specific needs. First up: the Zooka was designed to raise the iPad’s audio capacity to better match its potential as an entertainment device. I stopped in to visit the Zooka team to get a closer look at it and see how it works.

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