Happy…Black Wednesday? We’ve still got two days left until Black Friday, but that’s not going to stop Amazon from offering up some sweet deals. The retail giant is celebrating the kick off of holiday shopping all week, from this Monday through Cyber Monday.
There’s lots to choose from on the site, but here are some of our top picks for this non-existent holiday, after the jump.
From Han Solo to Hello Kitty, you can find a character that appeals to each person on your holiday shopping list at Mimobot. Mimobot features so many different styles and designs of its designer flash drives that you’ll have a hard time not finding a gift for each one of your friends. And, as luck has it, Mimobot is having a Black Friday sale going on now. You can save 30 percent off all Mimobot products from now through Cyber Monday — Monday, November 29. Also, get free shipping for orders over $30.
The most recent additions to the Mimobot gang are Toby, and HotChaChaCha by desinger Gary Baseman. The other two additons are Stormtrooper Han with Hair, and Stormtrooper Luke with Hair.
The Mimobots range from 2GB to 16GB of flash memory storage. Prices range from $24.95 to $79.95, respectively. If that seems a little steep in price for you, you can check out the Bargain ‘Bots section, where you can find Mimobots for less. For example, the Halo Red Spartan ranges in price from $16.95 for 2GB to $54.95 for a 16GB.
Besides offering you storage, the drives also feature original exclusive preloaded “mimory” content. According to Mimobot’s Web site, the content includes:
“… MimoZine, a quarterly video-based digital magazine, [which] features interviews with musicians, profiles of artists, pop-culture event coverage, and other things at the intersection of technology and art. Also look for our mimoDesk personalization suite of wallpapers, icons, avatars, and screensavers to enrich your digital desktop experience and mimoByte sound software that gives MIMOBOT a voice.”
Check out Mimobot.com to take advantage of this Black Friday deal and score some sweet gifts.
TomTom has joined forces with LucasArts to introduce a line of Star Wars-branded GPS devices. The navigation systems let the user chose from three Star Wars voices, including Darth Vader, C-3PO, Yoda, and Han Solo.
The voices can also be downloaded to other non-Star Wars-branded TomTom devices for $12.95, exclusively at the company’s site. Over there you’ll find samples from all of the aforementioned characters, free Star Wars content (including startup screens, icons, and sounds), and a contest featuring a customized Yoda voice.
On Monday, TomTom will be offering a special Cyber Monday deal on the devices at $5 off their normal price, plus a free Star Wars voice. Footage from Darth Vader in the recording studio, after the jump.
It can fly, it can travel through time, its doors flip up when you open them–is there anything the Delorean can’t do? If you said “hold up to 500GB of data,” you, my friend, are sadly mistaken.
Flash Rods is offering quite possibly the coolest external hard drive we’ve seen this year, just in time for the holidays. The Delorean Time Machine is a 1:18 scale model of the Back to the Future time machine with a built-in 500GB Seagate hard drive. The doors and the hood flip up, the wheels roll, and there’s a USB port located on the rear license plate.
The stainless steel hard drive will run you $250.
Gosh, where were all these tech goodies when I was a kid? According to a survey Nielson conducted in October, American kids are asking for some pretty pricey tech gifts this holiday season, the most wanted being the iPad. Most adults i know don’t even have an iPad.
Apple! Black Friday! Deals! Are you excited yet? Apple today started teasing its annual Black Friday sale by sending a note to customers bearing the tagline “Wrap it up this Friday.”
Apple isn’t giving away the details–odds are it will actually wait until Friday for that–but it has hinted that “You’ll find dozens of great iPad, iPod and Mac gifts for everyone on your list.”
As always, deals will be found both at Apple Stores and online at Apple.com. The sale starts this Friday November 26th, at 8:00 AM.
I’m not sure what flies at your home during the holidays, but apparently it’s not kosher at everyone’s house to unbutton one’s trousers to make room for a second course. If that’s the case wherever you end up this Thanksgiving, you might want to pick up a pair of Chris Cosentino’s new seasonal clothing item. The San Francisco chef has given the world the Gluttony Pants.
The pants came with three pork-themed button positions: “Piglet,” “Sow,” and “Boar.” Naturally, the wider your belly expands, the larger a pig you become. The pant positions correspond to the names of portion sizes at Cosentino’s restaurant.
Consentino is celebrating Turkey Day with a special Thanksgiving-themed version of the pants, brown for turkey, with burgundy pockets in honor of cranberry sauce. The pants sell for $100 and ship with a large napkin to tuck into one’s shirt collar, featuring images of “the evolution of a foodie.”
Consentino, for his part, denies that his pants promote overeating, “There have been some misconceptions about the Gluttony Pants — I’m not trying to promote obesity or overeating, it’s more about fun. It’s not always a bad thing to overindulge — I’m not saying sit down and eat a 100-ounce T-bone, but it’s OK to overdo it once in a while.”
The company has sold about 600 pairs, so far. The pants are only available in men’s sizes, from 30 to 42.
Have an amateur photographer in your life? The good news is that there’s an endless line of cool accessories on the market–the bad news is that lens, cases, etc. tend to be really, really expensive. With an asking price of $149.99 (though you’ll no doubt be able to find better deal online by searching around for a few minutes), it’s not the cheapest gift out there, but it’s bound to become an essential accessory for any photog on your list.
The Eye-Fi is the size and shape of a standard SD card and works with any camera that can handle SDHC. It features 8GB of on-board storage. What really sets the Eye-Fi apart from other cards, however, its in built-in Wi-Fi chip, which lets you upload photos anywhere with an accessible wireless network.
The X2 is faster than its predecessors, offering read and write speeds of up to 6Mbps. The card is also the first Eye-Fi to support 802.11n, and the new Endless memory Mode automatically deletes the files you’ve uploaded, so you won’t run out of space on the thing. There’s also a built-in geotagging feature, so you can keep track of where you shot your photos.
We are T-minus one week until Black Friday. If you missed out on the 10 amazing pre-Black Friday deals we found last week, then don’t fret — we have 10 more pre-Black Friday deals for you this week. A number of companies are having early Black Friday sales to get everyone ready for the big day. We raked through the Web and found some of the best deals out there right now.
Here are some of our favorite deals from the bunch:
An item that’s rarely on sale, the Dell Ultrasharp U2711 27-inch monitor is available now at Dell.com for $824.25. The monitor has a list price of $1,099, but you can knock off $274.75 with coupon code P?XSB2$8XSH3M3. PCMag reviewed the Dell Ultrasharp U2711 monitor and gave it a 4 out of 5 and an Editors’ Choice award for its excellent color and light grayscale performance. It has lots of A/V ports and multimedia features, as well as a wide viewing angle, and a high-resolution screen. This offer comes with free shipping and a 3-year warranty. The offer ends November 24 at 6 a.m. CT.
Canon VIXIA HF M31 32GB Flash Memory High Definition Camcorder
If you’re looking for a way to record all those holiday memories on video, but you’re looking for something a little more hardcore than a Flip pocket camcorder, then check out the Canon VIXIA HF M31 32GB Flash Memory High Definition Camcorder on sale for $499.99 with free shipping at Crutchfield.com. Use Coupon Code: 3A825 to drop the price from $479.99 to $479.99. The camcorder has a list price of $699. It records up to 12 hours of crisp high definition video to a 32GB internal flash drive or directly to removable SD memory cards. The VIXIA HF M31 has a 15x HD video lens, 3.89-megapixel full HD CMOS image sensor to capture video at 1920 x 1080p resolution, and its Dynamic SuperRange OIS corrects a full range of motion.
Check out PCMag’s full list of the 10 Best Pre-Black Friday Deals. Remember, these deals are valid at time of publication and may not last long.
[Originally posted to TechSaver.com]
Amazon announced that starting today, you can now gift Kindle Books to anyone with an email address, no kindle required. And just in time for the holidays.
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