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Repair cafe offers new hope for broken gadgets
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Posted: Feb 17, 2013 11:57 AM MT
Last Updated: Feb 17, 2013 1:42 PM MT
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A new kind of cafe is operating in Calgary.
Once a month you can go there, get a coffee and watch while a techno-whiz fixes your phone, camera or other broken-down gadget you might otherwise have thrown out.
It's a European concept known as a "repair cafe" and CBC's Sarah Konsmo was there as it came to Canada for the first time.
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