Dave Johnson

Save $20 keeping tabs on your dog with a Whistle Go Explore tracker

You’re likely not spending as much time outside these days — at least not without a face mask — but your dog certainly still needs to take care of their business outdoors. And if your dog happens to be a professional backyard escape artist (Trance, I’m looking at you), then you might want to get …

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Get one of the best under

Odds are good that several months ago you hadn’t been planning to spend a lot of time working from home, but here you are — trying to make the best of your laptop when you used to have an enormous monitor on your desk at work. A second monitor can give you a lot more screen room, but who has …

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Get these surprisingly good noise

Good headphones have a reputation for being expensive. Good wireless headphones? Doubly so. Noise-canceling headphones? Triply so (that’s an actual word, I checked). But before you plunk down $200 or more on a back-to-school or back-to-quarantine set of wireless ANC headphones, consider this: Amazon seller SoundElec has the Mpow H19 IPO Active Noise Cancelling Headphones for $25 when you apply …

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It’s a charger sale: Save up to 40% on a trio of ways to power your phone, laptop and more

It’s time to stock up on charging options. Accessories brand Aukey is having a sale at Amazon, and right now you can get a trio of charging gadgets at up to 40% off. There’s a fast car charger (40% off), a wireless charging pad (25% off) and a massive 30,000-mAh power bank (30% off) up for grabs. I don’t know …

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Save 30% on a 4

Virtually every light in my house is a smart light. A combination of smart bulbs and smart switches lets me operate the lights in every room, hallway and closet via voice command or mobile app. That experience has taught me an important lesson: It can be pretty expensive to replace all the bulbs and switches in your home. Thankfully, I …

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Awesome deal on an Amazon Fire HD 10 tablet: $50 off plus free stuff

As surely as wearing a mask reduces the rate of coronavirus transmission, Amazon regularly runs deals on its various gadgets, including Echo speakers and Fire tablets. But it’s not often we run into a deal quite this juicy. HSN has put together a bundle that includes the Fire Tablet HD 10 64GB and a few assorted goodies for $140. The …

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Get Aukey’s pint

If you’ve been paying attention to the latest generation of chargers and USB specs, you know the days of slow charging are numbered. Modern USB-C Power Delivery chargers can fast-charge compatible devices in a fraction of the time of older devices thanks to their 100-watt power capacity. Aukey’s 100-watt Power Delivery charger is just such a beast. Usually selling for …

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Get a 2

Among the list of soul-crushing problems we have to deal with in a corona-infested world, inserting the charging cable into the end of your phone probably doesn’t make the top five. Even so, why bother, if you have an iPhone or Android phone with wireless charging built in? There’s no convenience quite like having a charging stand on your bedstand …

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Whirlwind FX’s RGB

There’s a buzz around gaming accessory maker Whirlwind FX these days. The company’s Element keyboard is taking interactivity to a whole new level — thanks to a library of game extensions, the keyboard’s per-key RGB lighting can react to what’s happening on the screen. It’s an interesting concept, and right now you can get the Element for $85 when you …

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Get this 20,000

These days, I’m not interested in a power bank unless it packs a lot of power — at least 20,000 mAh, for example — and has some really interesting features, like Power Delivery (PD), Quick Charge (QC), lots of ports, USB-C, a flashlight or solar charging. Today I have one that checks a lot of those boxes, Not all of …

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