Last month I wrote about the launch of the new Google Play family experience and highlighted a few features that made the service more famil...
Last month I wrote about the launch of the new Google Play family experience and highlighted a few features that made the service more family friendly.
Note: I was invited as media to this event and received a gift bag. However, any personal views expressed are always 100% my own.
This weekend I was invited to Google Family Play Time event where I joined other families to experience the play in real time.
At the #FamilyPlayTime event, families enjoyed interactive play stations with physical and digital play areas by Google Play partners, including Nickelodeon, Toca Boca, Crayola, Tynker, and Sesame Street.
Some of the activities families experienced included:
Explore Sesame Street’s home on Google Play
Play with Tynker’s Learn to Code app
Mix new beats with the Crayola DJ app and DJ Fulano
Build (and more) with Toca Boca
Laugh with Nickelodeon
As you can see the Google Play family experience has lots to offer digital families. Take some time and explore Google Play’s featured collection of exclusive content for families.
During a preview event, I received a sneak peak at a few of the newest HP tech and ways they can be used to help #BendtheRules to enhance ou...
During a preview event, I received a sneak peak at a few of the newest HP tech and ways they can be used to help #BendtheRules to enhance our lives.
Note: I was invited as media to this event and received a gift bag. However, any personal views expressed are always 100% my own.
For Home/Kitchen Productivity
HP Pavilion All-in-One (21.5”, 23” and 27”) (starting at $599.99) has the IPS Full HD displays and B&O Play audio, that allow you to enjoy movies or for families to gather around to share videos and photos. ,
The white iridescent color and dot pattern on the back allow the HP Pavilion All-in-One PCs to fit in any kitchen, living room or home office to be a focal point in the home.
The new all-in-one takes your overall experience above and beyond with a powerful processor, optional discrete graphics.
With HDMI Out, you can connect to a second display for multi-tasking or TV for maximum entertainment
The HP Pavilion All-in-One’s high-quality B&O Play audio helps you enjoy your music or online video explorations.
For Gaming
HP OMEN (starting at $1,499.99) is designed for gamers and combines performance and portability in a compact, stylish package
At only 19.9mm thin and 4.68lbs, it is portable and sleek, with a chassis CNC milled from solid aluminum, and anodized with a black finish. The custom hinge was designed to elevate the display out of the way of hot exhaust air, with tips blue-coated to echo the racing look of sports car exhaust pipes.
Take full control and personalize your keyboard with programmable gaming keys and customizable colors for each of the seven lighting zones, not to mention speaker illumination that moves to the beat of your music.
Blow away even the most demanding competition with cutting-edge gaming graphics amplified by NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M on a stunning, razor-sharp 15-inch diagonal Full HD touchscreen display.
HP ENVY Phoenix Tower (starting at $899.99) has a brushed dark aluminum chassis and radiant red LED accents, which is built to give you the best graphics and performance for gaming or hardcore computing tasks.
Deck out your dorm room by connecting up to three displays for the most immersive experience and rock out to quality audio tuned by Bang & Olufsen.
Get the bold power you need for a solid gaming experience with up to NVIDIA GTX 980 or AMD Radeon™ R9 discrete graphics and a choice of fourth generation Intel®Core™i5 and i7 processors.
For die hard gamers, optional Intel® K-series processors enable overclocking with the HP ENVY Phoenix Tower Overclocking Control to boost gaming performance and optional HP liquid cooling to manage heat.
For Travel
The HP Pavilion x360 11 and 13 (starting at $379.99) comes in vibrant new colors and transitions between four modes with ease.
The 11” HP Pavilion x360 boasts an HD touch display and the 13” has a Full HD touch display. B&O Play audio gives you the audio for high-quality sound that will fulfill all of your entertainment needs.
Available in Natural Silver, Sunset Red, Violet Purple and Minty Green, your hybrid PC is sure to stand out and truly fit your vibrant personality.
Packed with ports you’re able to connect to displays, printers, devices and more with ease.
Minions Nation, the time is almost here for our favorite group of little yellow guys to be in theaters in RealD and IMAX on July 10, 2015. B...
Minions Nation, the time is almost here for our favorite group of little yellow guys to be in theaters in RealD and IMAX on July 10, 2015. But be warned, this time there's someone who's badder then they are...or want to be anyway.
Note: I was invited as media to the press screening. Any personal views expressed are always 100% my own.
So the cute thing about the Minions, is that they want to serve and be bad. They try so hard. Ever wonder how they became this way? Well in Minions you'll get a history lesson about those adorable little yellow guys and their journey down the "bad" road.
The journey down the Minions "history" road is filled with lots of laughter, as their good hearted attempts to please their masters back fires a lot. It was really fun to see how they started and all their attempts over the years.
We also learn a bit more about the personality of our favorite trio and how they became a team. You'll get to see what makes each of these three minions special in their own way.
I wish we stayed a bit more in the past learning about the Minions, but then I would have missed all the delicious badness of Scarlet Overkill, played by Sandra Bullock.
I have to be honest that Scarlet Overkill sorta stole some of the show from our guys. She was so good at being bad and inspiring our guys to serve her evil plots. Until of course things don't go as planned. What happens when the Minions and their evil master no longer agree on the evil plan?
Ah that's the fun of the movie! Both children and adults alike will enjoy seeing how these bad guys are really good at heart.
MOVIE SYNOPSIS
This July, go back to where it all began.
The story of Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment’s Minions begins at the dawn of time. Starting as single-celled yellow organisms, Minions evolve through the ages, perpetually serving the most despicable of masters. Continuously unsuccessful at keeping these masters—from T. rex to Napoleon—the Minions find themselves without someone to serve and fall into a deep depression.
But one Minion named Kevin has a plan, and he—alongside teenage rebel Stuart and lovable little Bob—ventures out into the world to find a new evil boss for his brethren to follow.
The trio embarks upon a thrilling journey that ultimately leads them to their next potential master, Scarlet Overkill (Academy Award® winner Sandra Bullock), the world’s first-ever female super-villain. They travel from frigid Antarctica to 1960s New York City, ending in mod London, where they must face their biggest challenge to date: saving all of Minionkind...from annihilation.
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, Allison Janney & Steve Coogan
Directed by: Pierre Coffin & Kyle Balda