Remember that Brendan Fraser flick, Encino Man? I love the caveman shock with every confrontation in the modern day. And that’s exactly how the average person reacts when technology reaches another futuristic milestone. Mobile and tablet devices. App technology. Wearable tech. We live in exciting times. But which companies puts branding at the same importance as product development? The days of press releases written in robot speak and incomprehensible model numbers is over. It’s time to combine both form and function.
Samsung has announced its latest "Unpacked" event where the company will announce, in its usual language, "The Next Galaxy." The event is set for Sunday February 21st at 7pm CET (1pm ET) in Barcelona, one day before Mobile World Congress takes over the city. The invitation includes an image of a shadowy cube with two edges glowing to form a "7," suggesting that we...
The holidays are here! With the chaos of Christmas shopping and the seemingly endless holiday parties flooding your calendar, it’s time to start picking away at the little things that eventually add up. That includes frozen cars, jammed parking lots, and shopping bags packed to the ceiling. Ford Canada identified one key area that most city guys can find useful when they’re zipping...
In recent years, we’ve seen an influx of luxury car brands releasing vehicles that strive to fit the solid middle ground between affordable and envy. Among them, you’ll find the 2016 Acura ILX sitting comfortably between the BMW 2 Series, Audi A3, and many other the basic luxury sedans. The $30,000 range is a hot little market. There’s a specific target audience for this vehicle...
DriveClub: Bikes is the latest add-on to the super popular racing title DriveClub. Announced at Sony’s Paris Games Week PlayStation Conference, Bikes puts you in the seat of the top superbikes from each of the world’s greatest motorcycle manufacturers in the fastest, most realistic racing simulator to date. Bikes gives you front of the line access to 12 new superbikes from Yamaha...
There’s some kind of aura that comes into play while you’re commanding a new Range Rover. Actually, I take that back. The prestige factor is deafeningly apparent, but it’s more than just the name that makes the Range Rover a high end make. You can sense the hundreds of thousands of hours spent defining its visually captivating design, and presumably more building the advanced...
Receive an Excel file. Attempt to open it in Microsoft Excel. Prompted with software activation. Log into Google Drive. Upload Excel file to Google Sheets. Print from browser. Oops. Print again from Google Sheets to default printer. Observe formatting errors. Reformat and edit document. Print a third time. Cross fingers and pray it looks good. Receive an invitation to view a spreadsheets document...
Mobile wallets. It’s been on the top of my mind for the past year, mainly because I’m one of those guys that has to wear both hats. I tend to look at things from both the end-user perspective first, and from an business integration perspective second. From a customer perspective, it’s a blessing for guys like me who never actually carries cash. As a business, the potential...
You know you’ve reached the pinnacle of technological advances when lasers are involved. Okay okay, so they’re not really laser that will remove the hair off your pretty face – they’re used for guiding you as you trim yourself to visual perfection. First hand proof, coming right up. As for electric toothbrushes, for me they fall into the category of “Things that...
It’s funny how light can affect a person’s day so heavily. You know those people. Those people you do your best to avoid if it’s cold, overcast, crummy outside. You can feel the pain and sorrow around you when you’re in the subway from it. Yeah, light does a lot to you. So lets reverse the logic just a little. Philips introduced me to two neat new Light Therapy products...
It’s been a week since the BlackBerry 10 launch and I’m neck deep into my new Blackberry Z10: learning the in’s and out’s of this fantastic little Canadian device. I think it’s only fair, as a reviewer, that I do three things to simplify the learning process: (1) Post a video of myself and my good friend Sharad from Freshly Educated Men talking about BlackBerry 10...
RAMONE is a composition of non-fiction short stories and introspections by Reggie Tan.
Howdy. I first started blogging on RAMONE.ca in 2009, with a dedicated focus on men's lifestyle and stories of inebriation. Shortly after, I was listed as a top Canadian blogger, and over the next decade, I've collaborated with hundreds of notable brands.
Then I grew up. As of late, I've graduated to writing about life experiences, well-researched opinions, and hopefully a few things you might find useful.
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About me－Power user of technology. Style guy. Avid gamer. Obsessed with the Cybertruck. Lyrical poet. I like my beats bottom heavy. Madaline is ∞. Only God can judge me. INTP. Birthed in the East Coast of Canada by a pair of cool Filipino parents. Cautiously ADHD. I prefer my whisky neat with a tumbler of room-temp water. Otherwise, a pint of your best draught will do.
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