Dave Johnson

Best Buy’s 4

January is the time of year when we traditionally hunker down in heavy sweaters to watch Netflix until spring. Best Buy is hoping to lure you out of your hibernation, though, with an unexpected four-day sale. It kicked off Monday and runs through Thursday. There are a few hundred items on sale ranging from TVs …

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Audeze Mobius premium gaming headset with planar magnetic drivers is now $60 off

You might not think about this much, but there’s a problem with most headphones: The stereo imaging moves with you as you move your head around — the soundstage is bolted securely to each earcup. The Audeze Mobius uses Waves Nx head-tracking tech to position the audio in 3D space around you. As you turn your head, the audio stays …

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Save $200 on the gaming

If you’re looking for an enormous screen and possibly some portability, projectors still have some advantages over TVs, but projectors don’t always win on price, and they’re easily washed out by ambient light. Even so, some of the best projectors have a lot of home theater appeal. Case in point: The Optoma UHD30 is a 4K projector that is blisteringly …

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The best MLK Day sales and deals available right now: Save $70 on Dyson, $30 on AirPods, $60 on Apple Watch and more

Martin Luther King Jr. Day arrives Monday so it’s a good time to reflect on and educate ourselves about the struggle for racial justice in America, especially given the current political and social climate. That said, retailers can’t seem to let a three-day holiday weekend go by without a sale. And even though MLK Day isn’t quite the retail bonanza that …

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Vizio TV sale: Save $200 on a 65

It’s not TV season — not TV buying season, at any rate. In fact, we’re in a notorious dead zone for good TV deals, smack in between the holidays and the Super Bowl. But if you absolutely have to buy one, there are still good deals to be had. Case in point: Vizio is running a sale right now that …

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Celestial illumination: Save $30 on a magnetically levitating LED lamp

I love magnetically levitating globes — they’re science-fiction magic come to life in the form of a mesmerizing modern sculpture. But what happens if you take a levitating globe and add an LED light, turning it into a small desk lamp? You get one of these cool gadgets. Right now, you can save $30 on any of the modern lighting …

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The best accessories for your new iPhone: 7 ways to make your phone even better

Whether it’s your first iPhone or your seventh, if you unwrapped a new Apple handset this holiday season, you’re probably pretty excited. And it doesn’t really matter if you got the new iPhone 12 or an older model — there haven’t been that many substantive updates to Apple’s gadget in the last few generations, so an iPhone 11 can be …

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Essential tools that cost under $20 to start the new year off right

I know that this article might say more about me than about you. After all, when I was growing up, my dad was a heavy-equipment mechanic and owned a garage full of tools — there was no job too large or small he wasn’t fully prepared to do, either under the car or around the house. None of that rubbed …

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The best must

There were some downright irresistible deals on laptops this holiday season — beginning back at the start of November, retailers slashed prices on laptops from Dell, Lenovo, Sony, Samsung, Acer and other. We even saw some discounts on MacBooks. If you jumped on one of those sales and brought home a new laptop to kick off 2021 the right way, …

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These are the droid

Say what you will about the latest trilogy of Star Wars films, BB-8 remains a hit with adults and kids alike. If you’d like to delight your Star Wars-loving youngling with BB-8-themed headphones, here’s your chance. Usually priced around $24, you can get these Star Wars BB-8 Over the Ear Headphones for $12 at Daily Steals when you use the exclusive …

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