Gadgets and Electronics

Even if you don't allow your pets on your furniture, pet fur and feathers find a way to fly around your rooms until they land on something nice and soft, like your furniture fabric, with great sticktoitiveness. And what about their pet beds and your carpeted stairs?  It's a lot easier to use a lightweight hand-held vacuum cleaner to suck up these pet hairs than an upright vacuum, and there are those that are particularly efficient pet hair suckers! Here are the top five pet owner favorites....

Pet dander, fur, hair, skin and feathers are a challenge to clean up in our homes. Shedding is nature's way of getting rid of dead cells so new ones can take their place, but they are a main cause of air pollution in your home, and the number one allergy trigger.  To make a 'clean sweep' of your home, you're going to need some strong suction to remove your pets' shedding.  Here are five of the best upright vacuum cleaners that, as it happens, specialize in pet hair!

Cats are pretty good at defending themselves. You can employ the spirit of the cat in your own defense with a Safety Cat Women's Self Defense Key Ring. It is something small enough and easy enough to have with you at all times -- and it's a kitty!

With all of the stuff we do on our computers these days our hard drive space can get eaten up pretty quickly. We also want to be backing up out files as much as possible. One totally cute idea for handling all of these files is this adorable PigChum USB Hub.

With tens of thousands of life-threatening vehicle collisions with deer each year in Ontario alone, locals are looking to high-tech solutions to save both man and beast!

I worked in the film/television industry for almost 20 years.  A majority of my work involved equipment set up and repair as well as lighting.  But my passion has always been with special effects.  With a majority of effects being digital now, it's always fresh to see specialists design a large, realistic practical effect--like this orca.

Over the course of the last couple of decades our lives on the digital landscape has shifted into high gear as we hopscotch from one new shiny thing to another. But what about our pets?  Have they also acclimated to our brave new world of techie gadgets and innovative wizardry? Does technology add to their life experience or are they still perfectly content with that soothing bowl of milk or the next opportunity to bury that steak bone in the backyard?