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Dream with Your Eyes Open: Say Hello to Google Daydream View

February 6, 2018 By Lena 119 Comments

Note: The following giveaway is open to Canadians only.

Dream a little dream… I see you, daydreamer. I see your unfocused eyes and far off gaze. I see your soft smile as you picture palm trees in Aruba, window shopping in Paris, surfing in Hawaii or backpacking in Nepal.

Where do your daydreams take you?

For some, calendars are filled with travel and adventures, and for others, adventures may be defined as caring for a toddler, juggling two jobs or learning a new skill or trade. But for those momentarily grounded, why shouldn’t you have the ability to feel what it’s like to soar over mountains, hear the rush of falling water or the view the majestic beauty of nature-inspired landscapes?

Say hello to Google Daydream View.
Swim with seals, stand at the edge of a volcano – even explore the world’s most famous paintings in a virtual museum. The Google Daydream View is a headset and controller that lets you experience high-quality, immersive virtual reality (VR) from anywhere to virtually everywhere (see what I did there?). …

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Filed Under: Lifestyle Tagged With: #roamon, #withrogers, Google Daydream View, Rogers

Human Connections in a Digitally Connected World

October 17, 2017 By Lena 22 Comments

My boys are ages seven and nine. They’re pretty much done with me.

Seriously! I’m the big, bad mama who makes them do their homework, finish their dinner, clean up after themselves and watch their language. And all this could be tolerated – even appreciated – if I didn’t have one, unforgivable, tantrum-inducing power:

The ability to take away their electronics. Oh yeah. I’m a baddie.

To fully appreciate their addiction to tablets, video games, computers and the like, here’s what happened when I told Ryder to “go outside and play on the trampoline.”

Yoink! That 3DS disappeared in a heartbeat. There I go again, being the bad cop!

Now before you bestow über-parenting respect on me for carefully monitoring their screen time, I must admit that the amount of time they stare at electronics does not bother me at all. I spend 14 hours every day basking in the eye-twitching white glow of a desktop computer, and I have no illusions that my boys will fare any better. They even read books on tablets! …

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Filed Under: Family Tagged With: #withrogers, Ignite Gigabit, rogers gigabit

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