Hasta La Gadget!

If you still haven’t pulled the trigger on a pair of Apple’s AirPods Pro, Amazon has them on sale for the first time since Christmas, as far as we can tell. You can currently get them for $180, down from their normal price of $250. That’s not as good as the $159 price advertised for Black Friday, but considering the price spiked to $197 around Christmas, $180 is still an improvement over recent listings. 

Among Apple’s AirPods lineup, the AirPods Pro offer the best audio quality. That, plus active noise cancelation and a better fitting design earned it a strong score of 87 in our 2019 review. iPhone and Mac owners in particular will appreciate the buds’ H1 chip, which allows for easy pairing, hands-free Siri access and the seamless transfer of audio between iOS and macOS devices. Included in the box, too, as you can see in that top photo, is Apple’s MagSafe charging case. 

Buy AirPods Pro at Amazon – $180

Marvel announced in 2020 that Wakanda’s King T’Challa, a character brought to life on screen by the late actor, would be retired.

“The only thing that Democrats and Republicans can agree on is what a horrible mayor he has been,” Cohen said.

If you’re still in the mood for some post-holiday gifts-to-self, Microsoft has cut the price on its high-end Xbox Elite Series 2 controller to $140. That’s almost as low as the Black Friday price of $135, in case you missed out on that sale in late November. Normally $180, the highly customizable Elite Series 2 is positioned as an upgrade for avid gamers, with a slew of premium features including a set of six adjustable-tension thumbsticks, four paddles, two d-pads, shorter hair trigger locks, rubberized wraparound grips, a carrying case and up to three custom profiles — a handy thing if your attention is typically divided between several titles. 

As for battery life, the controller is rated for 40 hours of wireless play time, and there’s also a charging dock in the package in addition to the charging case. In addition to wireless connectivity via Bluetooth, there’s also the option of plugging in a USB-C cable. Either way, the controller is compatible not just with Xbox games, but PC titles too.

If you’ve been eyeing the Series 2, it’s worth noting we don’t see it on sale that often. In fact, stock itself seems to be low right now — as of this writing, Amazon doesn’t even have inventory of the Series 2, so the fact that Microsoft has it at all, let alone at a close-to-Black Friday price, seems notable.

Buy Elite Series 2 at Microsoft – $140

“Once we got rolling, it became intoxicating. After we finished a room, I would gaze at the pile of junk and shake my head. Why hadn’t we done this years before?”