It’s not always super door buster TV deals that are better and even cheaper than last year, a lot of times big box stores sell the same exact items for the same exact price. Hell, sometimes they even charge more. NerdWallet took a look at Black Friday Ads and found some interesting stuff. More »
It’s not just Wal-Mart that’s opening up its stores for Black Friday sales right about the time most people cut their turkey during Thanksgiving Dinner, a lot of stores are bumping up their opening times a lot earlier this year too. Here’s a list of when stores will open for ‘Black Friday’ also known as Thanksgiving for most people. More »
Though you may have a heart attack when you hear that Target will be the only place you can get the exclusive big of in-game content they include with the package, you’ll be a little less freaked out to hear that it’s a Target-themed race car. If you’re a real lover of Target superstore, you will want to head out either to a physical location or to the web – Target’s website, that is – to get this exclusive: a lovely Red Target racing suit and race car for in-game action. Otherwise you can just pick the game up wherever you like – no worries!
There’s a brand new launch trailer out today for LittleBigPlanet and the game is being excitedly launched after two years of development by none other than United Front Games and Sony San Diego Studio – Sackboy ahoy! This carting adventure takes you across an undeniably colorful landscape where you’ll be creating your own experience just as the franchise always promises. Have a peek at the trailer here right this minute:
There’s also a “Week One” shirt available in-game with the little man himself sitting on the front with a Canadian tag attached. This jersey is available inside the game for your character of choice for another $4.99 – and yes, only inside the first week this game is on the market.
It’s time to break out the create tools and get your engine started – or one or the other at once, don’t want to be losing a wrench in your engine when you’re on the track. And make it down to the store today! Then we’ll see you on the track this week!
[via PlayStation Blog]
LittleBigPlanet Karting hits PS3 with Target Exclusive DLC is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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A frequent gripe of Lytro camera owners has been the hands-off nature of the photography, with that signature infinite focus about the only real fine-tuning that’s on tap. As of a fresh firmware upgrade, the light-field camera is much friendlier to demanding shooters. The unconventional point-and-shoot now lets owners manually adjust the ISO sensitivity (80 to 3,200) and shutter speed (1/250th of a second to 8 seconds) as well as lock the exposure or invoke a neutral density filter. Regardless of their precision demands, anyone who was already sold on the concept still gets a few perks with today’s refresh: the 8GB model now comes in Seaglass green and a Target-exclusive Moxie Pink, and there’s both a $30 sleeve as well as a $60, accessory-friendly case for those who’ve fully committed to the Lytro lifestyle. Neither upgrade will bring higher resolutions or video, but they’ll go a long way towards accommodating those who were at least on the fence. Check out an interactive sample of the shutter speed control’s benefits after the break.
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Lytro camera gets manual controls, new colors and accessories for exacting light-field fans originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Do you think that it is truly possible to live out a wireless and paperless lifestyle? I think that a paperless environment is not really that possible, as there is always a paper trail that is far better to keep records, but for wireless connectivity? It really does make sense though. After all, I am quite sure that a whole lot of us have already encountered tangled cables and wires with the myriad of our devices and gadgets, that the wireless charging feature found in the new Nokia Lumia 920 is definitely a plus point. Not only that, no longer do you need to run LAN cables throughout your home just to take advantage of the Internet connection from your router, right? Well, I guess the same can also be said of wireless speakers, and Zooka has just announced their wireless speaker’s availability over at Target Stores around the US.
Carbon Audio is the company behind the Zooka wireless speaker, where their fashion forward Bluetooth audio accessory will be able to hook up to your favorite tablet, notebook, ultrabook or smartphone – as long as those devices themselves come with integrated Bluetooth connectivity, of course. After all, since Christmas is creeping up on us slowly but surely, it makes perfect sense to have a wireless speaker like the Zooka make your list.
Carbon Audio mentioned, “That’s one reason we are so excited for the Zooka to be available in Target stores. Target’s unique ability to introduce high design to mass markets is perfectly aligned with our design principles and philosophies.”
The brilliantly designed Zooka is no shy piece of device, even though it might look like it. Packing quite a powerful, high quality audio experience, it has been specially integrated into form factor that is sleek and sexy. Connecting to other Bluetooth-enabled devices are a snap, and it will definitely be able to turn and transform your Apple or Android devices into a big sound audio system, letting you enjoy games, listen to music, and watch movies up to five times louder. All you need to do is slide the Zooka onto the edge of your device, or you can just pair it in order to enjoy big audio, full, rich sound which is touted to light up a room from as far as 30 feet away.
Apart from that, $99 Zooka also comes with a built in microphone, allowing you to pair it with your phone for hands-free conversations.
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Well, this one should give parents with ever-present ankle-biters reason to celebrate. Starting Sunday, October 14th, Target will make a special in-store area available highlighting 20 of the most sought-after toys — all tagged with QR codes for one-stop, secret mobile shopping. The initiative is being targeted at consumers (read: frazzled Moms and Dads) who need to conduct their frenzied gift-buying without the prying eyes of curious children. You’ll have to install the company’s app to scan the codes and opt-in for the free shipping, but it’s really no more complicated than that. All told, it’s an added bit of convenience that should relieve some of that mad holiday stress, but it’s definitely bad news for the impulse buyer. You can check out the PR after the break for the full list of included products.
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Target adds QR codes to hot holiday toys for secret shopping originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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So Target has done the impossible. It’s used QR codes in a way that is so useful that it actually outweighs how goofy, unwieldy, and ineffectual they are. It does this by, essentially, by simplifying something even worse: Holiday shopping at Target. More »
Amazon‘s impressive new Kindle Paperwhite is set to launch in just a couple of days, but Barnes and Noble has decided that its going to put up a fight. Both Target and Walmart are showing that the price of the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight has been cut just ahead of the Paperwhite’s launch. The new price of the Nook GlowLight? $119, the same price that Amazon has given the basic Paperwhite model.
Of course, one of the biggest differences between the Paperwhite and the Nook GlowLight is that the Paperwhite will show you “special offers,” which is just fancy PR talk for “advertisements.” In order to banish the advertisements from your Paperwhite, you’ll have to pay a fee. The Nook GlowLight doesn’t show any advertisements, and now that Barnes and Noble has brought the price down to match that of the Paperwhite, it might be able to steal some sales away from Amazon.
This doesn’t look like a limited time promotion either – Target’s ad says that the Nook GlowLight’s price has been cut, rather than saying that it’s merely on sale or that this is a special offer. It’s worth pointing out, however, that Barnes and Noble’s own listing for the Nook GlowLight still shows a $139 price tag (as does Target’s online listing – only the in-store ad shows a price of $119), so it’s possible that Walmart and Target are just bringing their prices down to move some units quickly before the Paperwhite arrives. One thing is certain, however: if you’ve been waiting to pick up a Nook GlowLight, now is the time to buy.
That’s especially true when you consider that Amazon won’t be shipping new Paperwhite orders until near the end of October. Demand is apparently so high that Amazon had to push the ship date for new orders back to October 22, but whether that’s because of sheer popularity or a component shortage is unknown. Whatever the reason, this shipping delay should allow Barnes and Noble to net a few extra Nook GlowLight sales now that the eReader is sporting a lower price tag at some retailers.
[via CNET]
Nook GlowLight gets a price cut as Paperwhite launch approaches is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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It’s about to become a heck of a lot easier to get your hands on a consumer light-field camera. The Lytro, that marvel of post-picture-taking-focusing, is finally expanding its reach well beyond the confines of its own site. The camera will be hitting Amazon and Best Buy and Target’s sites come October 9th. That same day, Canadians will be able to pick the lipstick-shaped device up via Future Shop, followed by retail availability in Canada on the 10th. In mid-October, it’ll be hitting stores in Singapore and Hong Kong, swinging back around to the States in November for availability in CityTarget stores in select locations.
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Lytro light-field camera hitting Amazon, Target and Best Buy sites next month originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Once again, the list of places where you can buy one of Amazon’s Kindles has gotten shorter. According to a new report from Reuters, low-cost retail titan Walmart has completely dropped Amazon’s full line of Kindle e-readers from its online and brick-and-mortar stores.
Don’t hold your breath for your local Wally World to stock new models like Kindle Fire HD or the Kindle Paperwhite either — it seems Walmart is making a clean break here.
It’s not the first time a major national retailer has opted to drop Amazon’s popular line of e-readers and tablets — Target made a similar decision back in May after “evaluating” its product assortment, though the company was quick to note in its clipped statement that it would still sell rival e-readers like Barnes & Noble’s Nook.
Unlike Target, which forecasted the Kindle’s exit from its inventory in advance, Walmart already seems to have done the deed. A quick search for “Kindle” on the Walmart site doesn’t yield much more than a slew of Android tablets, and a bit more digging reveals that the retailer may have been clearing out Kindle stock as early as last month.
The natural question to ask at this point is, well, why? If Walmart’s party line is to be believed, it’s simply because the company carries enough tablets and e-readers to make the Kindle unnecessary. The real reason may be more nuanced than that — the moves made by Walmart and Target seem more like the sign of a deepening schism between strictly online retailers and those with brick-and-mortar businesses to maintain.
Amazon has historically been pretty happy to drive wedges into that gap, too. Right at the peak of 2011′s holiday buying frenzy for instance, Amazon kicked off a new promotion for users of its mobile Price Check app — anyone who used it to price check a product in a brick-and-mortar retailer would receive a 5% discount off of that same product if purchased on Amazon. The fact that those discounts topped out at $5 (and Amazon never brought up how successful the promotion was) meant that its swaying power was questionable, but it clearly illustrated that Amazon was more than happy to reinforce the notion of physical retailers as showrooms while it laughed all the way to the bank.
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