Oh! Gizmo

By Evan Ackerman

Woot.com normally sells one heavily discounted gadgety item every 24 hours, but during a Woot-Off, a new item appears as soon as the current item sells out (sometimes after mere seconds). Nobody knows what’s coming up next, but whatever it is, it’s dirt cheap (with flat rate $5 shipping). Among the items you’ve missed so far have been MyVue iPod video goggles for $70, Candi the USB pole dancer for $10, a 4 port USB hub with an integrated rechargeable battery pack for $4, and the world’s crappiest projector for $50. And all the obligatory random weird crap, of course.

If you’re too lazy to refresh the page to see when the item changes, here’s a list of automatic Woot-Off checkers.

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By Evan Ackerman

Woot.com normally sells one heavily discounted gadgety item every 24 hours, but during a Woot-Off, a new item appears as soon as the current item sells out (sometimes after mere seconds). Nobody knows what’s coming up next, but whatever it is, it’s dirt cheap (with flat rate $5 shipping). Among the items you’ve missed so far have been a Philips 1000 watt home theater system for $80, HDTV USB stick for $25, an Asus EEE 900 netbook for $140, and an 18 watt solar charger and charge controller for $80. And, of course, a whole bunch of random weird crap.

If you’re too lazy to refresh the page to see when the item changes, here’s a list of automatic Woot-Off checkers.

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By Evan Ackerman

Woot.com normally sells one heavily discounted gadgety item every 24 hours, but during a Woot-Off, a new item appears as soon as the current item sells out (sometimes after mere seconds). Nobody knows what’s coming up next, but whatever it is, it’s dirt cheap (with flat rate $5 shipping). Among the items you’ve missed so far have been an 8 gig 4th gen iPod Nano for $90 and a 6 pack of Star Wars bobble heads for $30.

If you’re too lazy to refresh the page to see when the item changes, here’s a list of automatic Woot-Off checkers.

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by Shane McGlaun

The economy is bad; you have to have been living in a cave or in a coma to not know about that. So poor is the global economy that retail chains once rolling in the profits have been forced entirely out of business. Circuit City was one of the most recent chains to close up shop.

Nationwide camera retailer Ritz Camera filed for bankruptcy recently and has now announced that it will be closing 300 of its locations around the country. Despite boarding up 300 stores around the country, the chain will still have about 400 locations in operation nationwide. That is assuming it doesn’t come back in a week and close the remainder like Circuit City.

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By Evan Ackerman

Recession? What recession? Now is the perfect time to buy more electronic crap that you kinda want but don’t really need! Woot.com normally sells one heavily discounted gizmo-y item every 24 hours, but during a Woot-Off, a new item appears as soon as the current item sells out (sometimes after mere seconds). Nobody knows what’s coming up next, but whatever it is, it’s dirt cheap (with flat rate $5 shipping). Among the items you’ve missed so far have been a solar gadget charger for $10, an 8 gig 2nd gen iPod Touch for $170, a PowerSquid for $4, a 4.3″ GPS nav for $89, and a badass Roomba 565 for only $170.

If you’re too lazy to refresh the page to see when the item changes, here’s a list of automatic Woot-Off checkers that do it for you.

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By Evan Ackerman.

Solid State Drives. They’re fast, they’re efficient, they’re durable, they’re sexy, and until recently they’ve been wicked expensive. Unless you’re loaded, you’re still not going to be using them to store all of your illegally downloaded media, but that’s fine, it’s not really what they’re for. Super Talent has come out with a line of UltraDrive SSDs that might just be cheap enough for you to stuff into a netbook, where you don’t really need tons of storage but you do need battery life and shock protection. Or stick in in your desktop and move your OS there to take advantage of the fast read/write speeds.

There are plenty of ways to take advantage of an affordable SSD, and the Super Talent UltraDrive series is just about there… A 2.5″ SATAII 32 gig drive costs $128. You can get 64 gigs for about $200, and the drives top out at 256 gigs for nearly $650. The UltraDrive ME series has read/write speeds of up to 200/160 MB/sec, and should be substantially more efficient when it comes to power consumption. They’re available now from NewEgg.

$128 for a 32 gig SSD still too much for you? How ’bout 30 gigs for $83 shipped? You can get an OCZ drive from NewEgg by clicking here, downloading this rebate form, and using coupon code EMCLPMX37.

[ Super Talent SSDs @ NewEgg ] VIA [ Hot Hardware ]

By Evan Ackerman

Woot.com normally sells one heavily discounted gizmo-y item every 24 hours, but during a Woot-Off, a new item appears as soon as the current item sells out (sometimes after mere seconds). Nobody knows what’s coming up next, but whatever it is, it’s dirt cheap (with flat rate $5 shipping). Among the items you’ve missed so far have been an 8″x6″ USB graphics tablet for $30, a Pentax K100D DSLR body for $240, and a Netgear wireless router and USB print server for $20.

If you’re too lazy to refresh the page to see when the item changes, here’s a list of automatic Woot-Off checkers.

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By Evan Ackerman

Now’s the time to get your hands on bushels of underpriced electronics to fill all of those gaps in your holiday shopping list. Woot.com is having a pre-holiday rapid fire blowout sale, and so far you’ve missed some cheapo MP3 players, a Roomba 565 for a scant $170, a portable iPod video player, and a bunch of other excellent crap at ridiculously low prices (even for the internet). Stay up all night to cash it, ’cause once it’s gone, it’s gone, and new items are popping up quicker than you can click the buy button. Get your automatic Woot-Off checkers here.

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By Evan Ackerman

This is certainly not an, um, certainty, but rumor has it that Wal-Mart will being selling a 4 gig version of the Apple iPhone for a mere $99, starting December 28th. This sounds like a relatively good deal, but remember that you’ll be paying nearly that much every month (usually about $70) to use the thing. And you don’t even get all of that storage… Out of the box, the 8 gig iPhone has something like 7.08 gigs free (the OS eats up the rest), so it seems likely that an 4 gig iPhone will only give you a little bit over 3 gigs to play with. Furthermore, Wal-Mart (just like everywhere else) requires you to sign a new 2-year contract with AT&T, so even if you’re okay with 4 gigs right now, you should ask yourself how you’ll feel about that amount of storage a year or so down the road.

VIA [ Macrumors ]