Bing Lee Launches Samsung Experience Destination

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Bing Lee and Samsung today launched a major retail experience installation at Bing Lee’s Rhodes Shopping Centre store, designed to profile a selection of its Home Appliance products to Australian shoppers in an immersive and interactive way. The event was attended by Yenda and Lionel Lee, as well as Mr Yoon and Phil Newton from Samsung.

This display is the first of its kind for Samsung’s home appliance retail operations in Australia. The 100 square metre stand offers hands on product experiences through plumbed and connected Samsung home appliance products while customers visit the Bing Lee store. When shopping during peak periods, Bing Lee customers can also enjoy a beverage from the coffee machine located at the stand while they explore Samsung products.

The home-inspired design showcases a number of premium and innovative home appliances and also allows consumers to interact with the products. The space features zones of products including refrigerators, washing machines, microwaves, vacuum cleaners and dishwashers.

Galaxy tablets situated throughout the stand deliver an interactive way to discover products based on a number of questions. The customer can then have the information on the most relevant products emailed or sent via SMS to them.

A number of the products in the washing machine and refrigerator zones will be fully functional, enhancing the shopping experience and providing a realistic understanding of the product benefits in a realistic setting. The retail stand will also have a Samsung trained product expert available to provide consumers with specialised advice during peak trading hours.

The installation at the new Bing Lee Rhodes Shopping Centre will be open to the public from today, so be sure to come down and check out the new Samsung Retail Experience.

Bing Lee Launches Coffee Capsule Range

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If you’re a fan of the pick-me up coffee shot at home or at work, then we don’t need to tell you how popular capsule-based coffee machines are – here at Bing Lee, they are among our best selling products. But up till now, once you’ve bought your coffee machine from us, you have then had to go and source your coffee capsules – that is, until now!

At Bing Lee we’re excited to announce the arrival of shots by Genovese – individually packed capsules that provide a premium coffee drinking experience to use with your Nespresso machine. With three different flavors and a high quality controlled manufacturing process, you’ll be able to walk out of Bing Lee with a full set of coffee capsules with your brand new Nespresso machine, or top up if you’re visiting us for something else.

The Genovese family has been involved in coffee roasting for over 40 years, with a passion for delivering great tasting, premium quality coffee for homes and cafes alike. shots by Genovese coffee is roasted and ground right here in Australia. The capsules are sealed within days of roasting to retain all the flavours and aromas over time. And you’ll be happy to know that Genovese products are BPA free.

These premium tasting coffee capsules are available in three different flavours – bold shots for an intense flavour explosion and perfect for coffee aficionados; mellow shots for a milder taste and decaf shots that are full flavoured without the caffeine levels of the other two products.

If you’re in the market for a new Nespresso machine, or own one and are planning to visit one of our stores, make sure you pick up a pack of shots by Genovese – you won’t regret it!

ELECTROLUX Vacuum and Floorcare Range

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Bag-less cyclonic vacuum cleaners have long held the mantle as having the latest technology with power, hassle-free convenience, without the need to buy dust-bags, not to mention you can actually see the dust you’re capturing.

Electrolux looked for feedback and set out to address three main issues: performance – with regards to suction and power; ease of use – primarily around maneuverability, noise levels, and storage, and finally – the management of dust. Based on that research, they created the Electrolux ultracaptic.

One of the issues with bag-less vacuum cleaners is how to clear the dust and dirt. The ultracaptic is designed with a unique and innovative easy release handle, part of the ‘Compact and Go’ solution. For fast and convenient emptying, you just push the easy release handle and press a button – no extra hassle required. This means you’ll avoid messy contact with the dust and dirt, and it keeps the canister internally visible so you can easily see the volume of dirt you’ve picked up.

To deliver performance and ease of use, the Ultracaptic features powerful cleaning, including Multicyclonic Technology, which helps deliver high dust separation, with up to 99.95% dust pick up on hard floors. Ten mini-cyclones separate ultra-fine dust particles and capture them in the Fine-dust Filter. This reduces the risks of filters being clogged and increases the performance of the cleaner.

The washable HEPA 13 Allergy filter provides clean Exhaust Air by trapping more than 99.99% of fine dust. The ultracaptic has also been designed for ultimate manoeuvrability with an ergonomic grip, and large, soft wheels that protect hard floors. It also has 5 speed settings so you always have the right suction for the surface you’re cleaning.

With many of these features, Electrolux received the coveted 5 star excellent rating for dust pickup and filtration from Germany’s SLG testing institute.

Other models in our range include the Ultra Active, with bagless super cyclonic technology, HEPA 12 exhaust filters and a 3 in 1 accessory tool.

So let’s check out the range of cordless floor care models. Keep in mind that all operating times mentioned do depend on floor types and household conditions.

In the cordless range, the Ergorapido delivers instant grab and go cleaning for up to 20 minutes, plus the patent pending brush roll clean that cuts off hair, string and debris from the brush roll with the push of a pedal.

The Ergorapido Plus extends that usability time up to a possible 30 minutes with only 4 hours charging time.

The UltraPower model runs up to 50 minutes, with an exchangeable battery pack, and an LED light for illuminating any corner to be cleaned.

The ZB4106 is the first cordless vac to have integrated wheels for gliding over any surface without straining your wrist. The ZB4112 boosts cleaning time up to 20 minutes while retaining the wheels and the double filtration system for better air quality. Finally the Rapido plus provides wheels, cyclonic action, double filtration and a cleaning time of up to 35 minutes.

As you can see, Electrolux have a comprehensive range of floor care to suit your environment and your lifestyle. Come into Bing Lee or browse online for our complete Electrolux floorcare offering.

Dyson DC59 Cordless Vacuum Cleaner

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Open the cupboard, drag out the vacuum cleaner, plug it in, vacuum around the room, unplug it and put it back into the cupboard.

By the time you’ve done this, someone has probably made more mess, and you repeat the process all over again. Or you don’t and your floors stay looking dirty.

What if I told you there was a solution to the whole ‘pull the vacuum cleaner out of the cupboard’ rigmarole? Well there is. And of course it comes from Dyson’s team of clever engineers, so now you can forget conventional cleaning with the new Dyson Digital Slim.

The DC59 cordless vacuum cleaner is powered by the Dyson digital motor V6. This 350W motor, 2 Tier Radial cyclones and a re-engineered nickel manganese cobalt battery combine to provide powerful suction. The latest motor head with carbon fibre filaments aids in achieving high dust removal.

Together these four technologies enable DC59 to remove as much dust as a corded machine.

Like its predecessor the new Dyson digital slim is lightweight. It is designed with the motor in the handle so it’s easy to use up top ‘ cleaning ceilings and other hard to reach places ‘ as well cleaning across all floor surfaces.

The main floor tool; the one you’ll use on the floor, not the ceiling, combines stiff nylon bristles to agitate carpet fibres, picking up deep down dirt and stubborn hair, with anti-static carbon fibre brushes to collect fine dust from hard floors including wood and tiles.

The slim aluminum wand fits into tight spaces ‘ between kitchen cupboards and fridges. And the wand can also be completely detached from the machine, turning it into a hand held for compact spaces like the car.

The Dyson digital slim comes with a few different heads to tackle every possible cleaning challenge, including:

  • A multi-tool which combines a crevice tool for hard to reach places, with a soft dusting brush for more delicate tasks
  • and a mini motorised head to tackle tough tasks like removing pet hair from the furniture or car seats.

So there you have it. A portable, but incredibly powerful vacuum cleaner that means cleaning up those in-between messes is now quick and easy’so easy and so powerful in fact you may find yourself quickly zipping through the entire house regularly’just because you can.

So come on in to your nearest Bing Lee store, or purchase online right now!

Dyson DC54 Cinetic Vacuum Cleaner

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Today I have something really exciting to share with you, but before I do I’m going to take a moment for a quick vacuum tech history lesson.

Pre Dyson ‘ which is actually only 20 year ago – vacuum cleaners had not changed for over a century!

Enter James Dyson, who was frustrated that his vacuum cleaner didn’t do what it was supposed to do. Rather than just tossing the machine in the cupboard, he set about trying to create one that would work.

And of course he did. The DC01 was the world’s first bagless vacuum cleaner. It worked properly and set a benchmark for vacuum cleaner suction performance. I don’t think I need to tell you it was a hit.

Between then and now, the Dyson RDD team has grown from just James to a centre housing around 850 engineers all tasked with continuing to make better machines.

And they have done. Refining technology and continuing to provide customers with better machines…which leads us to Dyson’s latest innovation.

Dyson Cinetic.

This new machine from Dyson is a massive step-change in technology ‘ redefining the no loss of suction benchmark Dyson set all those years ago.

Like other Dyson machines there is no bag, but what isn’t immediately obvious to the eye, is that there’s no filter either.

Why is this important?

Because, just like bags, all vacuum cleaner filters clog. And not everyone washes and maintains them, which ultimately results in a loss of performance. Even in a Dyson.

By developing a vacuum cleaner that doesn’t require a filter, Dyson have taken customers out of the performance equation. There is nothing a customer has to do to maintain the efficiency of the new Dyson Cinetic (well, they will need to empty the bin after they’ve cleaned but that’s it).

So how is this possible? And why did we have to wait 20 years?

Well it didn’t quite take 20 years ‘ but it did take six ‘ which in my calculation is at least 12 filter washes that may not have happened!

James Dyson shared the key to making this possible, was being able to make Dyson cyclones smaller, which means they can spin air faster, which means they can separate more dirt and dust. Makes sense!

But the smaller the cyclones became, the more easily they blocked. To overcome this and make sure they didn’t block Dyson engineers experimented with flexible tips that would oscillate and effectively keep the dust moving through the system.

Once this problem was solved ‘ the 54 ‘ yes 54 cyclones were built and the rest of machine came together around Dyson’s Ball technology.

So after 2000 prototypes and over 10,000 hours (which works out to around 10 years-worth of cleaning) testing, Dyson Cinetic is here. And in its lifetime it will never lose suction.

We invite you to test the finished machine at your closest Bing Lee!

Breville BSB530 All-in-One Food Processor

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If you love cooking then chances are you spend a fair amount of time blending, chopping, slicing and mashing. One thing we’d all dread is the amount of different tools we’d need for all those food prep activities. Great thing is, Breville have come up with an all in one answer to all of those food processing tasks. It’s called the BSB530, but also affectionately known as, well… the all-in-one! The whole system revolves around the handyman tool-like control grip, making it easy to stabilise and control your food processing.

So let’s food prep and go through each of the great functions. When you use a hand stick blender, what is one of the biggest gripes you might have? That’s right, suction that causes the blender to stay bolted to the bottom of your bowl. Excess suction means less control, longer blending times and more chance of hot liquid ending up on you or your bench top.

The all-in-one’s hand stick blender has been cleverly designed to reduce suction by up to 80%; without compromising the blending power of that 700W motor. The secret is this patented oval shape, side channels and ribs that all combine to minimise that ‘vortex effect’ that round designs generate. This simple breakthrough provides more control and minimises spills and spits from the saucepan you’re blending in. With hand mixers used primarily for soups, great for those winter dinners, this hand blender makes it easier, safer and quicker to achieve the consistency and blend you’re aiming for.

Next, I want to show you one of the most versatile mashers available in the market today. No matter how you like your mashed potatoes, whether it’s coarse or extra creamy, the twist adjustable head let’s you set your mashing the way you want it. For example, rustic style textures and cooking are really coming back into vogue, and this masher helps you achieve that unique-tasting texture.

The flipside is the aftermath – the masher is extremely easy to breakdown into its parts for easy rinsing or placing in the dishwasher, and can just as easily be reconstructed for use at a moment’s notice.

Slicing individual vegetables on a workbench can be tiresome and let’s face it, a little dangerous for your exposed fingers. Not only that, but most of us probably wouldn’t be able to chop a carrot or cucumber, for example, with consistent thickness all the way through.

So what, I hear you say, why is that important? Well, these days, the concept of plating up and food presentation is high on many cook’s agendas, and this means even the mundane aspects of activities such as slicing or chopping need to result in a product that you’d be proud to place on your guest’s plate. Breville’s adjustable slicer lets you control that action completely – let’s do three different types of hard vegetables now – thin carrots, here we go, thicker cucumbers, straight through the chute, and extra thick onion slices. Now, let’s have a look at that on a plate. Think of the presentation possibilities!

And lastly, chopping. Electric choppers can really make a mess of things by pureeing the bottom layer while not even chopping the rest of your ingredients. Breville’s quad blade chopping system increases the chopping action across two levels and 4 blades, delivering more even chopping in a much quicker time.

The All-in-one doesn’t stop there – the whisk and reversible grating disc also add to your food prep repertoire so you can experiment with countless ingredients and refinements of each process.

And when you’re done, all the components of the all-in-one fit onto this well organised storage unit, ready for your next culinary adventure. Mashing up. chopping up and plating up – the Breville All-in-one has got you covered.

LG Roboking Square Robotic Vacuum

If you’re looking for a way to keep your home’s floor dust free but lead a busy lifestyle out of the house, then look no further. The LG Roboking Square could be your answer – and you won’t have to lift a finger. Let’s check it out.

The Roboking Square is an intelligent, robotic vacuum that will clean your floors while you work, play or relax. It comes with a remote control and a home station that the Roboking returns to when it needs to recharge. How smart is that?

Now we all know how hip it is to be square, but when it comes to cleaning it’s also very practical. Why? Just as the Roboking Square has more defined corners, its ability to actually get as close to the corners of your walls are also improved. But it doesn’t mean corners will become battered by an enthusiastic robotic vacuum. The Roboking Square also has corner detecting technology, meaning it will avoid collisions with walls while getting close enough for the most effective clean, and the side brushes are also longer so it can reach deeper into corners.

Just like all good robots, the Roboking Square has two eyes, one on top and one on the bottom. The top one is for mapping the ceiling so it can better plan its cleaning trip without going over the same spot multiple times. It can deal with different lighting conditions in each room for more efficient photo mapping. It keeps the cleaning environment in memory so it becomes more efficient with its cleaning runs over time. The lower eye is for tracking the floor and helps it get under furniture where dust can really build up.

But for real smarts, check this out. If you move the Roboking square, it will use its map information within its memory to keep on cleaning, but won’t go over the area that it’s already cleaned.

You can be even more specific with your cleaning needs, by using the remote control to drive your roboking around a perimeter you need cleaned. Once your created that border, the Roboking will zig zag within that defined space and clean just that area.

Now, you’d expect robotic cleaners like the Roboking Square to be quite effective on hard floors, but what about carpet. Well, the Roboking Square has two features that make sure your carpets are attended to as well.

First, check out the oversize wheels, which provide more traction to get from floor to carpet. These are driven by a powerful motor to climb onto high carpet. Secondly, the smart turbo cleaning mode automatically provides a higher suction power to grab dirt, particles and hair from the carpet. When the cleaning is done, just retrieve the bagless canister for easy disposal of the dirt and dust.

The Roboking Square also uses a Hepa filter to optimise allergen capture, and it’s quiet enough to use while you’re at home watching TV or talking on the phone.

That’s the Roboking Square – great in corners and on carpet – a true cleaning robot.

LG Smartwasher with Steam

If you have a big family, then you’ve probably got big washing loads. No matter how big your laundry loads get, the brand new LG front load Smartwasher with steam can be the answer to your regular washing chores.

The first thing you’ll see is the size of this unit. Even though it can handle a massive 10 kilos worth of dirty clothes and linen, this machine manages to stay within a height of 900 millimeters. Why is this important? If you have an integrated kitchen or Laundry with integrated cupboards with room for a front load washer, this LG machine will fit under a standard benchtop height. That’s right, even at 10 kilo capacity this will fit snugly in a smaller apartment or house where space is at a premium. A 10 kilo washer can easily handle bulky items like quilt covers and sheets.

The second thing you’ll notice is the stone silver colour that matches the look of your stainless steel appliances, while it also minimises fingerprints from messy fingers, young and old. The material is also very durable to withstand the rigours of daily domestic use.

Now this is a washing machine with steam, and that’s an important part of this unit’s character. Steam has the ability to puff up clothing material, letting the steam particles react with stains and lift finer dirt. In fact, one drop of water is equal to 1600 particles of steam, and combining water and steam will dissolve detergent quicker, giving your laundry with the most effective wash possible.

The steam function can be used to freshen up clothes as well. Put your previously worn clothes in the washer and select the refresh mode, and in 20 minutes you’ll have reduced creases and odours, giving new life to your previously tired looking garments and saving a wash cycle.

If you like to do your laundry at night time, then you would appreciate LG’s direct drive. Instead of using belts and pulleys, the direct drive fastens the drum directly to the motor, hence the name. This system results in less noise, less vibration and increased durability, something you want in a domestic workhorse like a washing machine. In fact, if you have the washing machine in your kitchen, the silent mode will be your favourite setting, thanks to the direct drive

The nature of the direct drive provides a diverse range of washing movements, resulting in a more natural, almost handwash clean. There’s actually 6 different wash movements, which the washer selects based on your chosen wash program. For example, the swing motion moves delicates smoothly under water.

If you are part of a big family with young kids, you will appreciate the allergy care mode, which combines steam and a customised wash cycle to remove plenty of household germs. And it’s easy to see the progress of your wash with the backlit touchscreen LED.

Finally, two things I want to mention that will give you peace of mind when choosing this LG washing machine with steam. Firstly, LG are so confident about their direct drive motor that they have put a 10 year, that’s right 10 year guarantee on it.

Secondly, if an issue does arise, LG’s smart diagnosis feature will actually emit a 6 second sound that will help their call centre quickly identify what the problem might be. And the LG App available on Apple and Android devices will also provide feedback on the status of your washer.

That’s the LG 10 kilo front load Smartwasher with steam. They stand behind it, and you’ll love using it.

So come on in to your nearest Bing Lee store, or purchase online right now!

Samsung Smart Camera Range

The Samsung range of smart cameras have plenty of features to help you take great pictures and easily share them with friends and your social networks. Let’s check out the range and how each model offers different features to suit various uses.

The DV150F is a great camera for selfies. You can frame yourself and anyone else in your shot easily with the innovative 38 millimeter front LCD. No more guesswork when it comes to self portraits – get the right angle and expression captured perfectly on the 16 megapixel sensor with 5 times optical zoom and 25mm wide angle lens. In fact, you can make it fun with children mode to keep kids still, a visual countdown for your group and jump shot that takes shots in rapid succession to create gifs.

The next one is the WB30F, which also has a 16.2 megapixel lens and doubles to a 10 times optical zoom, which is great for getting up close to the action. For a camera this size and weight, it has a huge 3 inch screen on the back for previewing and then reviewing your compositions.

Then we step up to the WB250, with a 14.2 megapixel CMOS sensor for detailed images, an incredible 18 times optical zoom for really close up shots and optical image stabiliser to keep your pic blur free even when you are zooming right in. The touch screen on the 3 inch LCD makes it easy to move around the menu to adjust your photo options.

The WB800 takes photo capturing to another level for compact cameras with a 21 times zoom and 16.2 megapixel sensor. There are a huge amount of effects, filters, video recording and editing functions on the cameras themselves, so you can start making changes to your image as soon as you’ve captured it.

And of course the Samsung Galaxy Camera takes the main features of the WB800, has the Android Jelly Bean operating system built in, along with 3G mobile capability and a 4.8 inch touch screen, it’s the ultimate Smart Camera with access to all the photo apps that are available on Android as well as its own set of great editing tools – for both photo and video.

But now we come to the really interesting part – each one of these cameras is also a smart camera, with powerful wireless functionality built into each model. Let’s use the WB250 as the example of some of these great features.

First, none of us want to lose our precious memories, so wouldn’t it be great if we could easily back up all the photos we’ve taken on our phone. With all of these models, you can. Just move the dial to wifi, and you’ll be presented with a few different options. If you have a skydrive account, simply click on the cloud icon. It will ask you to connect to a wifi account, and then you enter your skydrive details. All the photos on your camera will sync with your skydrive, allowing you to access them from any other cloud connected device.

You can also upload to facebook, picasa, and videos to your youtube account. Once you enter your account details, you’ll have them there for seamless uploading from then on. You can even email selected photos as well to any person with an email address.

So that’s if you’re in an area with a wireless network. What if you’re out and about, snapping shots with friends at a party or on a road trip and want to share your every moment?

First of all we need to download the Samsung Smart Camera app onto our compatibleiPhone or Android smartphone. Activate the app and it will say to start the wi-fi feature on the camera. So we’ll turn the dial to the wi-fi selection and press mobile link. Pressing the direct link button does the same thing. For this we’ll select transfer photos from camera, and now the ID of the camera appears on the smartphone. You can now transfer pictures to the paired smartphone – no physical SD card needed, or any other wired connection.

Taking that concept one step further, you can then press the autoshare symbol that’s on the screen. Now that you have already paired with the camera, it will switch functions and now send any photo snapped on the camera directly to the smartphone – so you’ll end up with high quality shots right on your phone. You can then use your phone to edit or simply share your pics on your favourite social networks.

So there you go – great picture quality, awesome stand out features on each model and the easiest way to connect to friends, phones and your greater social network. That’s Samsung’s Smart Camera Range.

So come on in to your nearest Bing Lee store, or purchase online right now!

Intel Ultrabooks

So you want power, and you want great design. You want fast start up, and you want long battery life. With our range of Ultrabooks powered by Intel’s Core i5 and i7 processors for Ultrabook, you’ll have the best of all worlds.

With Intel Ultrabooks, technology has caught up with your expectations to be ultra-responsive, and ultra-sleek. You won’t be sacrificing power for beauty, with the best blend of the responsiveness and smarts you expect and the portability and style you want. Powered by a smart Intel Core processor in a design that’s less than an inch thick and wakes up in a flash, a new Ultrabook lets you experience the joy of performance that keeps up with you as you create, explore, and enjoy what interests you most. You’ll rethink what’s possible as Intel did. The only question is, what will you do with it?

Let’s have a look at some of the great characteristics of Ultrabooks.

Ultrabooks are Ultra responsive. With Intel’s processors, superspeed USB, and the inclusion of solid state drives, Ultrabooks are able to read and deliver information in the blink of an eye, whether it’s browsing, calculating or replaying.

Ultrabooks are Ultra sleek. Being able to manufacture a notebook to this thinness means there’s huge potential for some very cool designs. As you can see, each brand delivers great looks that you’ll be aching to use at a cafe and around friends – you’ll want to be showing this off wherever you are. At less than an inch thick,

Ultrabooks wake up in a flash. This means you’ll always have the information you need at hand, and you’ll be able to fire off quick emails and check updates on your social networks or emails in an instant.

Ultrabooks run for hours and standby for days. You’ll be able to leave home or the office without a trail of power cables following your every move – you’ll be able to live the untethered lifestyle but without the bulk that a battery sometimes requires in a portable PC.

Ultrabooks deliver performance that keeps up with you. Whether you’re editing photos, converting and uploading video to Youtube or Facebook, or watching high definition video, Intel’s graphics system keeps the whole process smooth and buffer free – meaning you get the best experience no matter what tasks you’re currently completing.

Selected Ultrabooks feature Wireless Display, enabling you to throw your ultrabook’s image onto a wi-di enabled TV or monitor, enabling you to share your content up on the big screen with friends and family, or just for an entertaining night in.

Some fantastic innovations are coming through the Ultrabook range as well, with double sided screens, sliding ultrabooks, lie flat models and other fantastic product concepts to suit nearly any application.

Our range of Ultrabooks come with a choice of Core i5 and Core i7 processors.

Intel’s most popular family member, the Intel Core i5 processor delivers a great blend of responsive performance and stunning visuals.Effortlessly move between applications with smart multitasking delivered by Intel Hyper-Threading Technology. You’ll also enjoy the automatic burst of speed when you need it with Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0. Experience your movies, photos, and games smoothly and seamlessly with a suite of visual enhancements built into the processor’no extra hardware required.

For the most demanding tasks you’ll want an Intel Core i7 processor. With the best set of features, the Intel Core i7 processor is the ideal choice for whatever you want to accomplish on your Ultrabook.

That’s what Ultrabooks are all about, powered by Intel’s Core processors for Ultrabooks.

So come on in to a Bing Lee store, or purchase online right now!