5 Deals You Need to Know Today: Save on a Lotta Alexa
Smart assistants and smart TVs at smarter prices? It's the Yogi Bear of electronics sales. Check out this offer and more in our roundup of the five best deals we found over the last 24 hours.
Top Electronics Deal
Amazon Electronics Deals
Up to 40% offWhile the discounts on Amazon's Echo devices and Fire TVs and such are nice to see, they're likely not life-changing. Certainly not in a traumatic way. But there's one item here that has that potential, and it's the Spider-Man Stand for Amazon Echo Dot. Sounds innocuous, but then you look at it. It looks like some nefarious supervillain has successfully restrained the spider-that-is-a-man in their evil lab long enough to begin lobotomising him, but once they got the crown of his skull sawed off, they realised he had an Amazon Echo instead of a brain. Seeing that as a five-year-old could probably mess you up a bit. Which, speaking as a non-parent, sounds pretty funny.
Top Furniture Deal
IKEA Alex Storage Unit
$40Oh, IKEA, where do you come up with these crazy item names? The RAMNEFJÄLL? The VÅGSTRANDA? The ÅSBYGDA? These were mere amuse bouches in the lead-up to this most absurd of names. The ALEX? Clearly they're just picking vowels and consonants at random out of a hat. A hat they've named SYBEHÖR.
Top Watch Deal
Rolex Outlet at eBay
Up to 58% offThey say time is money, and that's never more true than when you're looking at Rolexes and wondering what it would be like to have enough "fun money" that you can spend that much on a watch rather than a new kitchen or life-saving medicine or something. But now you can wonder that in a slightly less befuddled way, because time is now up to 58% less money. A fun thing to do is imagining Optimus Prime buying one of these as a little reward for himself after defeating the Decepticons for the four billionth time, then showing it off to his buddies with his immortal catchphrase "Autobots! Rolex!"
Top PC Deal
Dell Tower Core Ultra 7 265 Desktop PC w/ 32GB and 1TB
$750There's something comforting about a classic, big ol' PC desktop tower. At a time when computers are being hidden away in eyeglasses, watches, door handles, and whatever else, having a computer that takes up a good honest amount of space in a room is a relief. You'd think you could fit a DVD drive onto it, given the real estate, but that's another day's fight. You'll notice this desktop boasts 32GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD, which don't actually take up any more space than any other amount of memory and storage, and are in fact quite flat, but if you like, you can imagine that you need a full desktop tower to accommodate such beefy specs.
Top Tool Deal
Home Depot Ryobi Days Sale
Up to 65% offThis is different to the Ryobi Daze, which is when I attempted to own and operate a power tool, inevitably leading to a mild concussion. These are Ryobi DAYS, which is its own thing, with less brain bruising, and more discount-based fun. For example, some of these tools are free when you purchase a qualifying battery. Others come with a free gift — and not, like, a tote bag, we're talking leaf blowers or angle grinders. Gifts you can sink your teeth into. (Note: don't.)
