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Travel Gear: New Huawei FreeBuds 4i With Noise Cancellation

Huawei's latest offering in the wireless audio category, the FreeBuds 4i, delivers best of class quality, design and performance for the price ($139 CAD) The Huawei FreeBuds 4i are the latest addition to Huawe...

ASUS ZenBook 14 UX433F: A Great Ultrabook For Travelers

As you'd expect for our team here at Modern Explorer, travel is a big part of our job and we are always looking for devices and accessories to make mobile computing the best it can be. We were very pleased to s...

Illegal Street Racing Exposed: The Real World Of The Fast And The Furious

It’s a Saturday night in the back streets of a large North American city. Sitting behind the wheel of small import cars with engines revving are two young men staring each other down. Their feet poised over th...

Gaming With A Beast: The ASUS ROG G752VS

Prepare to wield unbelievable power and speed at your gaming fingertips. If you’re like me and want to take your gaming experience to the highest level, this laptop is literally designed for you. With top-of-cl...

The Devel Sixteen Stole The 2019 Toronto Autoshow

With a whopping 5007 Horse Power, the Devel Sixteen stole the show at the 2019 Toronto Autoshow Exotica. 16 cylinders and 4 turbochargers make for a $2.2 million face-melting machine. The Devel 16 has a 0-60 of...

5 Reasons Why You Need Quality Headphones

Headphones are something you probably use every day (unlike those expensive, might-wear-once-a-year shoes you bought recently). But a lot of us are stuck using the cheap, earbud kind—often the ones that come wi...

ASUS Releases An Impressive New Lineup Of ROG Gaming Laptops For 2019

ASUS, the industry leader in PC gaming, has predictably upped the ante with their impressive new lineup of ASUS ROG (Republic of Gamers) gaming laptops. A week ago we joined a diverse collection of tech jour...

Huawei Reveals New P30 Series Phones, Smart Watch And Eyewear

At a late March global launch event in Paris, the tech world was treated to the jaw-dropping photographic capabilities of Huawei's new P30 and P30 Pro smartphones. Huawei, now the world's number two handset ...

Huawei P30 Pro Review: 2019’s Best Smartphone For Many Reasons

In the ultra-competitive world of mobile phones the technology inexorably moves forward and that also means in six months or a year some new model will eclipse today's impressive benchmarks and slick designs. B...

ASUS Zenfone 5Z Review: Camera, Design Take It To Top Of Its Mid-Range Class

Comfortably below the growing and rather intimidating price tags of the top tier smartphones we find a comfortable zone around $700-$800, inhabited by what the industry calls mid-range devices. ASUS, one of th...

A Brief Introduction To Soundproof Windows

As homes age, parts of their basic structure as well as design elements including floors, cabinets, roofing, doors, and windows, will need to be replaced. Homeowners can choose from a large selection of styles,...

The New ASUS VivoBook S15 Laptop Series: Stylish Performance

In a world of black and white and shades of grey, it's nice to see this new line of laptops from ASUS bursting through with a range of stylish colour. If you're looking for a all purpose, high performance to pr...

The Ultimate Guide To Buying Your First DSLR Camera

Decisions, decisions…time to get serious and really have fun with photography for work or as a hobby Recently I decided it was time to get a proper camera. A number of point and shoot digital cameras from Koda...

Virtual Reality Is Here: The Hottest VR Gadgets Of 2017

If we’re going to be honest, 2016 failed to live up to the initial giddy promise for virtual reality technology and quality content, and a lot of first-timers quickly lost interest. A year and a half on however...

Dyson DC45 Animal cordless vacuum cleaner.

Our Office Animal: Dyson DC45 Vacuum Review

Of all the stuff that has shown up at our offices over the last year (hundreds of books, electronics, DVDs, video games, booze, etc.), this package from Dyson may have intrigued us the most. On one hand, how ex...