Tag: gizmodo.com
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Forget the New Fitbit Air, Amazon Just Made the Charge 6 So Cheap It’s the Obvious Choice
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/07/Fitbit-Charge-6-Fitness-Tracker-1200×675.jpeg”] Google announced the Fitbit Air this week, a screenless fitness tracker that goes after the Whoop crowd and positions itself as the next generation of the brand. Amazon responded the same way it usually does when a new product drops: by making the previous generation significantly cheaper. The Fitbit Charge 6 is…
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This Is the iPad Most People Should Buy, and Amazon Just Made It Cheaper Than It Has Any Right to Be
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/ipad-deal-1200×675.jpg”] The iPad lineup has gotten complicated over the years, with Pro, Air, and mini versions all targeting slightly different use cases at very different prices. The standard 11-inch iPad is the one that cuts through all of that: it does everything most people actually need a tablet to do, and Amazon currently…
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The Best You Can Do in the Strait of Hormuz Simulation Game Is Mess Up as Little as Possible
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/05/bottleneck-game-1200×675.png”] It was only a matter of time until someone came up with a game based around the Strait of Hormuz, the waterway that has spent the last couple of months in a perpetual quantum superposition of “open” and “closed.” In fairness, Bottleneck isn’t the first Hormuz-themed game—Sweep the Strait, a Minesweeper clone…
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Amazon Sells This 50-Inch 4K Smart Fire TV for Less Than Most Dumb TVs
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/06/insignia-fire-tv-1200×675.jpg”] Most people assume a 50-inch 4K smart TV costs significantly more than a basic screen with no apps and no streaming built in. The Insignia F50 makes that assumption wrong: Amazon currently has it at $179, down from its regular $299 (40% off) which puts a Fire TV with Alexa, 4K HDR,…
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Forget Your Heavy Dyson, This Shark Vacuum Is Half Price on Amazon
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/05/shark-rocket-vacuum-1200×675.jpg”] Dyson makes excellent vacuums. They also weigh a lot, cost a lot, and require a lot of convincing before you pull the trigger. The Shark Rocket Ultra-Light vacuum solves two of those three problems immediately: Amazon currently has it at $99, down from its regular $199, which is half price for a…
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Why Humans Are Obsessed With Numbers Too Big to Understand
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/05/huge-numbers-book-top-e1778186932383-1200×675.jpg”] One subway ride in NYC costs $3. Gizmodo has been around for 24 years. The Sun is just one of some several hundred billion stars in the Milky Way, which is also just one of some trillions of galaxies in the universe. In science, a hypothesis is better tested if it’s weathered…
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Forget Prime Day, Amazon Already Cut AirPods 4 to Near Their Lowest Price Ever
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/01/airpods-4-1-1200×675.jpg”] Apple rarely discounts its own products, and when it does, it’s rarely by much. Amazon is doing the work instead: the AirPods 4 without active noise cancellation are $99, down from $129, and the ANC version is $148, down from $179. Both versions are at their lowest prices to date, and at…
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Forget Traveling With Four Chargers, This Tiny 100W GaN Block Replaces All of Them for Less Than a Basic Laptop Adapter
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/05/ugreen-nexode-100w-gan-1200×675.jpg”] Anyone who travels with a laptop, a phone, a tablet, and a pair of wireless earbuds knows the drill: a tangle of adapters and cables that takes up half a toiletry bag and still manages to leave one device uncharged by morning. This Ugreen Nexode 100W GaN charger solves that with a…
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This Solar Security Camera Runs Forever on Sunlight, Amazon Just Cut It to a New Low
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/09/solocam-eufy-1200×675.jpg”] Most outdoor security cameras come with two hidden costs that show up after the purchase: a monthly subscription to access your footage, and an electrician to run a cable to wherever you actually need the camera but the eufy SoloCam S220 skips both. The single camera is $59 on Amazon, down from…
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Amazon Cuts the Beats Studio Pro by More Than Half, Now 3x Cheaper Than Apple’s Rival
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/06/beatsstudiopro-1200×675.jpg”] The premium noise cancelling headphone market is crowded right now with Apple, Sony, Bose, Sennheiser, and Beats all competing for the same ears. When the products are this close in quality, the price ends up being the deciding factor and right now the Beats Studio Pro is $169 on Amazon, down from…