What’s 2 inches high, 35 inches long, includes two tweeters and a pair subwoofers and looks like a large, black tongue depressor? If you were expecting a joke, I’m sorry to disappoint you: It’s the Yamaha YAS-108 soundbar. And while this speaker package ordinarily sells for $200, you can now nab the Yamaha YAS-108 for …
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If the only kind of keyboard you’ve ever used is an off-the-shelf budget model, the one that came with your new PC purchase or the one built into your laptop, then you only know membrane keyboards. And while they’re cheap and quiet, they’re terrible. Just terrible. They’re soft and mushy and imprecise, which is bad both for touch typing and …
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Did Santa bring you an Apple Watch for the holidays? Then you’ve no doubt discovered it’s good for two days, tops, before needing to recharge. And that can pose problems when you’re traveling. You have to bring along the little charging disc from your nightstand, find yet another outlet to plug it into and risk losing it along the way. …
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Disney Plus was the last year’s top-trending Google search term — and that interest seemed to translate to mobile downloads and spending too. The Disney Plus mobile app was downloaded 40.9 million times across Apple’s App Store and the Google Play store for Android, with the vast majority of interest coming from the US, according to a Tuesday report from mobile analytics firm …
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I have a son in high school and a father dealing with dementia issues. Needless to say, I’d like to be able to keep tabs on both. Is my son exceeding the speed limit when he drives? Has my dad wandered off somewhere? When I’m traveling with my family in a foreign place, how can we find each other? Yep, …
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Just a few days ago, Cheapskate Rick Broida told you about a great deal on a Brother compact monochrome laser printer (now expired). Ordinarily $170, it had dipped briefly under $100. Well, today you can do better than that particular deal — a newer version of that Brother printer fixes pretty much the only complaint we had with that version, …
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I had a projector in my home theater for about a decade, and I loved it. A projector elevates any content to a cinematic experience and displays an enormous picture — often larger than what you might be able to fit with a traditional flat screen TV. Most home theater projectors are meant to be mounted on the ceiling, but …
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I’ve been in the tech biz longer than I care to admit, yet I still manage to come across gadgets I didn’t know existed. Case in point: today’s deal. It looks like a mobile charger, but it’s actually a portable hand warmer. (Also: a mobile charger!) As someone whose hands tend to be cold all winter long, I’m eager to …
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Here’s what CNET’s David Katzmaier had to say about the LG C9 OLED TV: “If you want the best TV picture quality and are willing to pay for it, the LG C9 should be the first 2019 TV on your list.” My addendum: If you want the best TV picture quality and don’t want to pay for it, you’ve come …
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The iPhone XS was the late-2018 follow-up to the insanely popular iPhone X. Although it’s no longer in Apple’s lineup, the XS is still a fantastic phone — especially if you can get it new, not refurbished. Which you can, right now, for the best price you’ll find anywhere. For a limited time, and while supplies last, Daily Steals has …
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