【推荐1】Best devices for students 2023

External hard drive

Price: about £50

The last thing you want is for your laptop to break (or get stolen) and to lose all of your work as a result. An external hard drive like this one from Western Digital can store a backup copy of pretty much your entire laptop.

Amazon Kindle

Price: about £130

Even if you’re a die-hard fan of physical books, the pain of carrying university textbooks around every day might change you.

The latest model of the Kindle Paper white comes with Bluetooth and a front-lit screen that has an adjustable warm light and, as is the case with most e-readers, the battery can last for weeks on a single charge.

Tile Mate key finder

Price: about £20

If you’re the kind of person who’s always losing stuff — particularly your phone or keys — then this little device could be a lifesaver.

Attach your Tile Mate key ring to your set of keys, and you can use the Tile Mate app to locate them if you happen to lose them.

And best of all, if you’ve got your keys but can’t find your phone, hitting the button on the Tile Mate key ring will make your phone ring — even when it’s on silent.Genius.

WiFi range extender

Price: about £35

All too often, the routers supplied by broadband companies aren’t quite up to the job.

We’ve used this WiFi range extender from NETGEAR and can confirm that it does a great job of improving the WiFi signal around the house. It plugs straight into the wall, and although you might need to trial a couple of different locations before finding the perfect position, you should notice the difference straight away.

【推荐3】Toys and Games for Kids Ms.Monopoly

Hasbro launched a new version of this game in an attempt to solve the gender pay gap. Female players start the game with S1,900 in Monopoly Money and males with S1,500.The gap continues every time a player passes with women collecting $240 and men $200. It remains possible that a boy wins the game.

On sale for S19.99 and available at major retailers（零售商）.

Barbie dolls that use a wheelchair

This summer,Barbie expanded its fashion line to showcase dolls in a wheelchair with a removable prosthetic leg（假肢）.“We can start the conversation around physical disabilities by including them into our fashion doll line, "the creator Mattel said.

On sale for only $19.99 and available on Amazon.

The doll inspired by children with autism（自闭症）

Lottie Dolls offers a doll inspired by a boy with autism. The Hayden doll play set includes an astronaut's suit and a companion dog named Cookie. Lottie Dolls, an Irish company,offers a host of dolls that highlight diversity,including the Mia doll, a wildlife photographer that wears a hearing aid, and the Sinead doll，the world＇s first doll with dwarfism （侏儒症）. The Hayden doll play set is ＄30.

The Mia doll is $25.The Sinead doll is $ 20. All can be found on Amazon.

Plastic Army Women

A 6-year-old girl wanted to play with female plastic soldiers.She got her wish,when a Pennsylvanian company BMC Toys promised to make Plastic Army Women.When completed, a pack of 24 figurines will include six different poses and should be available on the company's website and on Amazon.The price of this set of dolls is pre-set at $12.29.

【推荐1】Carillon Canal National Historic Site

The Carillon Canal, built on the Ottawa River for military purposes, was opened in 1833. Located 100 kilometres from Montreal and 130 kilometres from Ottawa, it is today a pleasure boating waterway.

Things to do

The Carillon Canal is fed by the water of the Ottawa River. The Canal opens a huge gate to enable boats to sail an impressive 20-metre drop in just 40 minutes!

Have a family picnic in beautiful scenery, then visit the old barracks (营房) which are now a museum. Curious to see a huge power station up close? Visits are free of charge.

Opening hours

The national historic site is open every day of the year from sun rise to 11 p. m.

Fees

Site access is free. Otherwise, there are fees for locking and overnight mooring(停泊).

When is the Canal the busiest?

From mid-June to the end of August, and especially during the following vacation periods and holidays:

·Fete Nationale du Quebec (June 24th).

·Canada Day (July 1st).

·Summer vacations.

·Labour Day(the first Monday of September).

·Thanksgiving.

What are the best times for sailing?

To avoid waiting lines, experience the Carillon Canal during the quieter periods, i. e. before June 24th, and later in early autumn, from Labour Day to mid-October. In this way, you’ll discover these wonderful places at your own pace, without pushing through the crowd that might have had the same idea as you, and you’ll gain the peace of mind to sail in complete relaxation!

【推荐2】Some libraries use unique architecture to encourage visitors to explore the racks and settle down with a new book, or use flowing libraries to bring books to hard-to-reach populations.

Kansas City Library (Kansas City, Missouri)

Along the south wall of this parking garage’s exterior, visitors are treated to what looks like a huge shelf of books. The building originally served as a bank, which is readily apparent when the library has screenings in its Vault Theater, inside an actual 1925 bank vault.

Stuttgart City Library (Stuttgart, Germany)

Opened in 2011, this nine-story public library designed by Eun Young Yi is characterized by its impressive white-on-white color scheme, its bold cubic shape and its cavernous interior. This cultural center for the city, designed to feel open and full of light, can be entered from any of its four sides, and readers can borrow artwork as well as books.

The Camel Library Service (North Eastern Province, Kenya)

To fight with low literacy rates in the desert of Kenya, the government created a roaming library composed of nine camels to bring books to villages. The library travels four days a week serving the region’s migratory people. Currently the service focuses on children, but with more funding they plan to increase their reach both in distance and the titles they carry.

Macquarie University Library (Sydney, Australia)

A stunning combination of cutting edge and sustainable, this building was made from recycled materials, features a green roof, and was designed to imitate the look of a eucalyptus tree. It is also state of the art, using robot cranes to bring requested books to the front desk.