First Look at the 2017 GMC Acadia SUV

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Whistler, BC – Invited to experience what the 2017 GMC Acadia SUV had to offer by GM Canada, I disembarked my Air Canada plane to find myself in sun-soaked Vancouver airport. I was to find my way to the Fairmont hotel which was a 15-minute walk from the domestic area, check-in with GM representatives and be on my way to a secluded resort right at the foothills of Whistler.

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Review: Dyson 360 Eye Robot Vacuum

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The Dyson 360 Eye is an accomplished vacuum cleaner. It dispels many of the issue that have plagued robot vacuums for many years now. Powerful enough to clean as well as larger handheld vacuums it ups the ante by being generally autonomous.

As evidenced by various marquee products in consumer technology, being the first doesn’t always mean the best. There were certainly many smartphones before the Apple iPhone came along but they were swiftly leapfrogged once that device rewrote the rules. Similarly, there have been robot vacuums for a number of years now but no product has challenged the market’s expectations more than Dyson’s first commercial robot vacuum.

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Review: HBO's Vinyl Season 1

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Rock and roll, man. Like the first time you heard it. It’s fast, it’s dirty, it smashes you over the head.

                                                                                   - Richie Finestra

Vinyl is one of the most ambitious and heralded projects to make it to HBO. This series, which was recently renewed and then not renewed, brings together the star power of Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger, who are co-producers of this gritty, soulful and  often violent look back at the music industry as it was in 1973 when punk, hip-hop and disco were slowly surfacing in New York City.

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Review: Moto G Plus elevates the mid-range in specs and features

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Continuing the tradition of challenging the high-end of the smartphone market, the Moto G Plus Is an accomplished mid-range device that flirts with many features and capabilities we’ve come to expect from more expensive 5.5-inch devices like the iPhone 6S Plus and Samsung’s Galaxy Note.

The fourth generation Moto G is indicative of what we can come to expect from Moto under Lenovo. A lot of the outlandish and exciting design and feature directions of Motorola have been tempered by Lenovo’s more practical and understated design ethos. What hasn’t changed is the value for money that the new Moto G Plus brings to market.

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