Wednesday, July 21, 2010 2:02PM - By Chris Weiss

Altec Lansing’s Expressionist Plus speaker system is a clean, aesthetic set of speakers that delivers solid bass and quality audio for a competitive price. It’s a compact set of speakers that will bring a distinctive look to your desktop, laptop or MP3 player audio. With a cone shaped base and two small, highly adjustable speakers you’ll be able to fine-tune the perfect audio. Earlier this year, CNET gave the system a 3.5-star rating, saying: “Decent sound for the money; bass is fairly tight; speakers are good-looking and relatively compact; satellites angle can be adjusted.”
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Thursday, July 1, 2010 3:41PM - By Chris Weiss

E-reader prices have recently been going down faster than Paris Hilton after a couple of adult beverages, and for a limited time, you can enjoy the biggest price break yet. Woot has the Amazon Kindle for a bargain-basement price of $150. If you’ll recall, Amazon recently dropped the official price of the Kindle down to $189, so without trying too hard you’ll save about 40 bucks. $35 once you get past Woot’s standard $5 shipping costs.
Woot’s price puts the Kindle at the same price as Barnes & Noble’s cheap, Wi-Fi-only model. In other words, you’ll get the Kindle’s 3G coverage for the same price.
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010 1:21PM - By Chris Weiss

The HTC Droid Incredible officially launched last week. As was announced, the price with two-year contract through Verizon is $200.
If you like what the Droid Incredible has to say, but want to hear it at a 25 percent savings, Amazon has what you’re looking for. The retailer is selling the phone for $149.99, which includes free, two-day shipping (with a two-year Verizon service plan).
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010 2:09PM - By Chris Weiss

Okay, so it’s not exactly the iPad. But if you’ve been itching to give a tablet a try without investing 500 beans, here’s a chance to get into the emerging market for just $40. The Hantech Tablo provides add-on tablet functionality for laptops, allowing users to draw, write and doodle on screen. Simply throw the receiver up on the top or side of the laptop and the pen will use infrared and ultrasonic to transmit your motion onto the screen.
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010 2:14PM - By Chris Weiss

Isn’t about time that you equipped your home entertainment system with Internet streaming? Skip the excess box, and buy yourself a Blu-ray player with built-in streaming capability. The Samsung BD-P1590 features Netflix, Blockbuster, Pandora and YouTube capability in addition to 1080p video and audio. It’s also BD-Live 2.0 ready for downloadable Internet content, ringtones, games and chatting. And your DVD collection won’t go to waste, as the Samsung plays those as well (with upconversion).
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Thursday, March 4, 2010 2:25PM - By Chris Weiss

In a day and age when you can get a free camera attached to your cell phone, it’s getting more and more difficult to justify doling out dollars for a bulky standalone camera. Especially when all you really take is candid shots of your friends and golden retriever Leroy.
It’s not that you don’t want or deserve a real camera, it’s that you need to find the right deal. And that deal is going on right now. The Casio Exilim camera is a super-slim, pocket-sized camera that packs 10 megapixels, 3 x optical zoom and 4 x digital zoom. Leroy deserves the benefit of 10 megapixels.
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Monday, December 21, 2009 12:18PM - By Chris Weiss

What better way to memorialize the great times of the holiday season than with a digital picture frame? You know your mom or grandma would appreciate having your awkward, smiling mug greet her every morning–even if no one else on God’s green earth can understand why. Make it happen this holiday with the Kodak Easyshare W820 8-inch wireless picture frame.
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Monday, December 14, 2009 3:12PM - By Chris Weiss

Ahhhh…another Monday in December and another promising week of holiday-season electronics deals. Today’s deal comes directly from manufacturer Lenovo. Lenovo is offering the IdeaPad S10-2 for the discounted price of $330, a nice discount off the $440 MSRP, but nothing you couldn’t find elsewhere. However, with a special coupon code (USPGREENMONDAY), customers will walk away just $280.50 lighter.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 4:01PM - By Chris Weiss

Black Friday isn’t for everyone. Stumbling around before the sun peeks over the horizon only to push, claw and gnaw your way toward savings mere hours after eating yourself into oblivion is pretty off-putting to some. But others are willing to brave it all for the savings.
As posted on BlackFriday.net, Best Buy’s Black Friday ad shows a multitude of items that might just be worth picking the crust out a few hours early for. Some highlights include a door-busting $300 120GB PS3 packaged with two games, a 46-inch Samsung 1080p LED TV for $1,600, and an Xbox 360 Elite game package that includes the console plus six games for $300. DVD deals start from just $3.99 and Blu-rays can be found for the bargain-basement price of $7.99.
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