Saturday June 18th from 11am to 2pm visit London Drugs and test your mettle on the race track! We’ll be set up with Forza Motorsport 6 and the Thrustmaster Ferrari 458 Spider Racing Wheel on an XBOX One in 16 of our stores. Post a lap time and see how you compare to other racers in your area, and in Western Canada!
Plus, you can enter a random draw to win one of three Thrustmaster TX Racing Wheel Ferrari 458 Italia Editions, valued at $499.99 each!
With the popularity in tv streaming services comes a variety of products that can contribute to the movie night of your dreams. Not sure what you need? Read this article. Then get some candy and snacks, cozy up in a throw blanket, and hit play.
If you’re a basic binge-watcher, an HDMI cord is the simplest way to project your shows onto your TV. They connect your laptop to your TV, so you can have a larger picture and better sound. If you have a Macbook, you’ll need a converter in order to connect the HDMI cord to your computer. Logiix and Certified Data both offer HDMI cables and a variety of adapters, and Apple has a new three-in-one adapter. Ask in-store if you aren’t sure which cords you need for your TV and computer.
However, if you’re more of an intermediate binge-watcher, then you might be ready for a most sophisticated device. The following devices enable you to watch web-based video on your television. There are no monthly fees associated with these products – however, services like Netflix do charge a monthly fee.
Looking to game on the go? Certified Data has you covered with the new Magnum gaming laptop!
The Magnum is designed with power in mind. We used an Intel Core i7-4710MQ processor running at 2.5 GHz. That’s a quad core CPU that supports all the latest tech. You also get 8 GB of DDR3L RAM (which you can expand to 16GB). We could list all the technical details but here’s the takeaway: this thing has a lot of horsepower. Seriously, just check it’s Geekbench scores.
Combine all that horsepower with the GeForce GTX 960M graphics card and its 4GB of graphics memory and you have a formidable gaming machine. Whether you want to play Candy Crush, World of Warcraft, or the upcoming Doom reboot, this machine will be able to handle it.
That’s not where it ends though! We have a full keyboard with numberpad, a huge 1TB hard drive, a DVD+/-RW drive for those games you still have on disk, HDMI output so you can play on your big screen TV, Bluetooth and WiFi and gigabit ethernet so you won’t have any lag at LAN parties. Top that off with a 15.6 inch high definition screen and what we’re left with is a pretty sweet package.
Have more questions? Our LD Experts are waiting for you at your nearest London Drugs computer department! That’s not all though, if you buy a Magnum between April 29th and May 11th we’ll throw in a Tree Frog gaming mouse and a $20 prepaid Steam card! This deal is only available in store so come on down!
If ever there was a special day where personalized gifts were the absolutely perfect gift, it’s Mother’s Day. Yes, brunch is good. Serving mom a homemade breakfast in bed is also a tradition in many households. If you have young kids at home, having them make crafts for mom is a rite passage as well.
However, seeing as Mother’s Day takes place during Photo Month, it’s only natural that here on the Photoblog we’d tie these two special occasions together. After all, if you’re looking for a quality gift that will create a long-lasting memory but still has a D-I-Y or personalized element to it, the Photolab once again has you covered.
Here are three ways to create one-of-a-kind personalized Mother’s Day gifts:
Windows 95 was released as of this posting just a little over 20 years ago. This operating system brought many innovations to personal computing, the most common being the “start” button that still exists in Windows 10. You may not have realized that teenagers today were all born after ’95 and the relative simplicity of their smartphones, tablets and even computer operating systems is taken for granted. Here’s a video of teenagers’ reactions to Windows 95.
You don’t have to look at many GoPro videos to find ones that send a shiver down your spine. These 9 remarkable clips, however, are more about virtue than vertigo. Enjoy! (Love the outdoors? Consider picking up a GoPro of your own before the next big adventure.)
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This is as close as you’ll ever want to get to a hungry young grizzly. Amazingly, there was no damage to the camera!
For those who are resolving to make their health a priority in 2016, there are a wide variety of new trends plus a host of tried-and-true healthy behaviors that can help keep motivation high and goals on track.
London Drugs Pharmacist, Jason Chan-Remillard, points out some of the top wellness trends for 2016 and offers some tips for adopting healthy behaviors in the New Year.
Wearable tech is everywhere right now and will gain even more traction in 2016 with new features and functionality. Everything from fitness trackers to smart watches and even heart rate monitors are being used to analyze physical wellness.
“These devices are changing the way we plan and manage our workouts, monitor our health and can help motivate us to achieve our wellness goals,” says Chan-Remillard.
London Drugs sees wearable tech as such a critical component of health that they specifically trained their Patient Care Pharmacists on wearable tech options and began hosting Health Tech demo days for customers in their stores. Pharmacists also lead by example in this area, wearing the Fitbit HR during London Drugs’ Nutrition & Healthy Weight Clinics.
“Understanding wearable technology helps us promote wellness. It is now an integrated component of monitoring health and it is a technology we know helps many of our patients,” says Chan-Remillard.
Fitbit earned the spot as the top app in the App Store over Christmas. The newest Fitbit, Fitbit Surge, can not only count steps, but also tracks pace, distance, elevation climbed, heart rate, calories burned and is even able to sync to the Fitbit Aria Wi-Fi Scale.
Other wearable tech products like iHealth track blood pressure.
“This is an important advancement because things like high blood pressure aren’t easily-detected, but if left untreated, over time can increase your risk of stroke and heart attack,” says Chan-Remillard.
