Announcement

On Thursday, August 25th, Toronto's premier entertainment and fashion hub, Yonge-Dundas Square, will be transformed into a spectacular showcase of the latest and greatest in virtual reality headsets, wearable tech, tech toys, and more. Hosted by Best Buy, the Life and Tech Expo is free to attend and will give you the opportunity to connect with the top brands in tech for exciting demonstrations and hands-on with today's hottest gadgets!

The labour day long weekend and the start of school are both just around the corner. Places like Best Buy are caught in back to school fever and I hope you are too. You’ve probably started the annual back to school drill already. Your kids have dragged you shopping for new clothes and just as you thought your wallet couldn’t get any lighter, you still need to stock them with school supplies. The root of day to day school...

For the second year in the row, Best Buy is hosting the Life and Tech Wearable Expo and Fashion in Toronto Ontario. On August 25th visit the free event and have a great time learning about the newest fitness trackers, virtual reality headsets and more directly from the companies responsible for creating this amazing technology.

ASUS has announced new Republic of Gamers laptops and they are the first gaming laptops to feature the power of Nvidia’s new GTX 10-series graphics cards. Look for the new ROG gaming laptops featuring VR-ready Nvidia GTX 1070 and GTX 1060 graphics cards to arrive soon at Best Buy.

In store only offer for smart home products.

August has always been one of my favourite months for new video games as it means a new Madden NFL game is right around the corner, and just as exciting, that game more than any other signifies that the tidal wave of new AAA fall/holiday games has officially begun. Before the next school year and cooler weather begins, here are the sizzling hot games releasing in August 2016.

 Computer monitors, like television sets, have undergone a huge revolution in design and technological innovation over the past 10 years. The ASUS ProArt series of monitors are great examples of how fantastic they have become. They have a stunning 4K resolution and ultra-fast refresh rates so photographs and video are brilliantly clear and realistic. Any photography or video professional would love to work on this monitor. Editing using one of these monitors is easier than ever; the results are more precise too. Enter this contest on Facebook and you can nominate a photographer or videographer you know to win one of these monitors.

 Call them glideboards, call them hands free segways or call them by their most commonly referred to name: Hoverboards. They may not hover and they may not be the same multicolored glider that Marty McFly introduced us to, but they’re helping us move in new ways and helping us zip from Point A to Point B without the use of gas.

 Love to take a Polaroid picture? Or love when Taylor Swift posts an Instagram photo of a Polaroid with her model friends? I know, the later sounded too Meta. Fujifilm Instax has brought the immediacy and fun of instant photography back with a line of cameras that can instantly print your favourite moment. The company has taken it to the next level with the Canada launch of the Fujifilm Instax Share SP-2 Printer on Thursday, July 14, in Toronto. I had the opportunity to check out this new gadget … and I want one; here’s why: 

 The original Dropcam (later branded as the Nest Cam) was one of the crucial pillars of growing IP Camera technology in the world of Home Automation. With its wide angle filming, cloud storage capabilities and communication and alerting abilities, it was one of the class leading standards for which all competing IP Cameras would have to meet. Now Nest is back with those same philosophies in a waterproof outdoor camera, coming soon to Best Buy. Read on to find out more.