Electronic smoking products pose risk
Consumers should avoid purchasing or using electronic smoking products, which may pose health risks and have not been fully evaluated for safety and quality, states The Canadian Press.
The products, electronic cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos and pipes, as well as cartridges of nicotine solutions and related products, require market authorisation before they can be imported, advertised or sold.
No electronic smoking products have been granted market authorisation in Canada, the federal department said in a release.
Study reveals tech attitudes
They are comfortable with gadgets, yet shudder sometimes as the cellphone rings; this group, primarily male and in their late 20s, is called the "Ambivalent Networkers" in a study released last week by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, says Salt Lake Tribune.
In the study, Pew examined American adults' gadgets and services, their activities and their attitudes toward technology.
About 60% of the overall respondents didn't have significant attachments to mobile devices, either because they didn't have such gadgets or because they were fine with desktop PCs. However nearly 40% did say they were glued to their mobile devices, and the Ambivalent Networkers make up a fifth of that group.
Gadgets keeps cops safe
Policemen carrying out long-range patrolling and combing operations in rebel belts of Kolhan, will now have hi-tech gadgets such as deep-search mine detectors and handheld mine detectors at their disposal, reports The Telegraph.
The decision to use this equipment was taken to ensure the security of policemen engaged in anti-insurgency operations.
Though the equipment had been with the police for the past two years, they were not being used regularly, says deputy inspector-general of police (Kolhan) Manoj Kumar Mishra.
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