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Amazon's Memorial Day Sale Is Filled With Tech Gadgets – Here Are 21 Deals Worth Buying
Amazon's 2024 Memorial Day sale is up and running, and while there are thousands of deals available, the very best offers are on tech gadgets. You can score record-low prices on OLED TVs, iPads, smart home devices, and headphones, and I'm rounding up the 25 best deals that are actually worth buying.
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While Memorial Day sales are mostly known for discounts on outdoor items like grills, patio furniture, and lawnmowers, you can always find impressive tech deals. Amazon's official Memorial Day sale launched earlier this week, and the first thing I noticed was that the top deals were on tech gadgets. The retailer featured huge discounts on Apple devices, including iPads and MacBooks, brand-new OLED TVs, and best-selling headphones. Amazon's Memorial Day sale also included deals on its smart home devices, with up to 50% savings on Blink security cameras, Ring Doorbells, tablets, and Fire TVs.
The 21 tech deals listed below represent incredible value, which is why they are worth buying. The Amazon Memorial Day sale will tonight at Midnight, and prices like this might not be available until the upcoming Prime Day sale.
Amazon Memorial Day sale: the 21 best deals Shop more Memorial Day salesYou can shop more bargains in our Memorial Day TV sales guide and our Memorial Day Apple sales roundup.
8 Forgotten Gadgets That Changed The Way We Use Tech
Flat-slab smartphones have been in vogue for the better part of a decade, but folding-screen tech may be poised to bring back the classic clamshell. While Motoralo's streamlined Razr is a touchstone for a whole generation, the older Motorola MicroTAC is arguably the phone that established the trend.
First produced as an analog mobile phone in 1989, the MicroTAC sported a unique folding keypad cover that doubled as a mouthpiece. Eventually, the design would evolve into its reverse for Motorola's also-iconic StarTAC design, which would put an earpiece on the top and the buttons on the bottom. Cell phones would never be the same again.
Illustration by Eleni Debo for Gear Patrol Today, most cameras not only focus automatically, but they can even recognize faces or lock onto eyes of their own accord. In the '80s, it wasn't quite the same. By the time of the Maxxum's release, companies like Nikon and Pentax had already released single-lens reflex cameras with autofocus capabilities but with an awkward catch: these implementations required motors in the lenses themselves to make the magic happen.
Minolta's offering, by contrast, was the first SLR to integrate its autofocus sensors and motors into the camera's body, allowing for smaller and cheaper lenses, an approach that would ultimately become common. Minolta didn't have much time to revel in its success. The Maxxum's autofocus tech was ultimately found to infringe on a patent held by Honeywell, and in 1991, Minolta was ordered to pay a $127 million settlement.
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Based in New York City, Miller Kern is the Deputy Editor, Shopping and Reviews at Mashable, where she writes and edits reviews, roundups, and deals about tech products including headphones, skincare devices, laptops, sex toys, e-readers, robot vacuums, and more. She has five years of experience writing buying guides, gift guides, and deals, and covering shopping holidays like Prime Day and Black Friday. Miller can tell you which products are actually worth your money. She also explores trends in the shopping sphere, such as dupes and viral TikTok moments.
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