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you know best gift is sponsored by daily steals where the daily deals are so hot they're practically steals whatever you choose to do with your life wherever your passion takes you I urge you to take the power you have been given and use it for good aspire to leave this world better than you found it it's an odd time of year folks when Tim Cook looks like the Pope and grads are graduating from school and they want cool tech and dad wants a little respect and not a new leaf blower you got a lot of things going on you answer all of these by giving great tech gifts which can make you nervous because tech moves so fast what's the right thing at the right price well you found the place where you're gonna get the answers this is the hour where we tell you exactly how to find the right stuff at the right price for the right people I'm Brian Cooley coming to you live from CNET's headquarters in San Francisco joined by my great co-host to my left is seen that's Lexi Sabinas hi and farther to my left is a guy you don't see on our set that often you see him in cyberspace it's the cheapest guy I know see that's cheapskate I mean that all love I'm complimented by its cheapskate Rick Ryder and this is our dads and grads Gift Guide live show so for the next hour we'll be revealing our best picks in eight categories including phones laptops TVs smartphone and even car and car accessories and Rick here is gonna be giving us some of the best deals there are yes I'm so excited thank you for having me here this is how it's gonna work during the show throughout we will be sharing deals on all kinds of cool stuff when the show's over you can refresh the page of viewing now to see all the links and promo codes that you need or you can go to see Netcom slash keeps Kate and find them there we are also going to be giving an iPhone 8 it's a the product red version so it's really super sexy and it comes with three months of service thanks to us mobile and you can enter that giveaway at cnet.com slash that ones live until June 17th it's great time to enter that too and we also want your questions so if you want to give us a tweet with the hashtag CNET live we will answer as many as we can maybe you have a car question for Brian maybe you have a deals question for Rick and also we will be randomly selecting three lucky people at the end of the show to receive something special a bit of a surprise shall we say for various legal reasons we can't tell you what it is so you gotta hope it's not crap but I can assure you it's not in fact it might be something on this table so watch the show carefully as the next hour unfolds and you may be spotting what you might win in that little giveaway okay let's get to our actual picks now in a really important category this is gifts under $100 this is a real sweet spot because you can give someone a great gift without going broke and one of the places where you got a start is a great Bluetooth speaker here's a blue Bluetooth speaker we like this one because it sounds great first of all as you can probably tell this is the JBL flip floor it's a little hard to see but at the end here are these little piston subwoofers they give it a little bit of physical drama when there's bass coming out of this guy you see these go back and forth so it's got some visual pop and most importantly for summer it's waterproof let's prove it right now it's playing this is not some fake piece of audio and I'm gonna dunk it in the fishbowl as you can tell we haven't done this before so let's see if it actually works and we go wow thundering bass through the fishbowl nice work by JBL that is a waterproof thumping little speaker and I Rick you've got one that is a little different doesn't go swimming with you I have another great option here it's actually even a little bit less money than that one and I just want to show you the Box first because it looks like it's already ready to gift it doesn't even move doesn't even need wrapping so this is the owl scroll which comes from the good folks our good friends at daily steals and it is as you probably guessed by now kind of a tube shaped speaker and stuck in the box because because it's live there we go and as you can see it's beautifully wrapped in leather so it looks really luxe and it'd be nice to put on your desk on your table or whatever and you just kind of peel back that way and just sort of rest that way so it's really kind of stylish looking this kind of says dad to me but the thing is though is that a smart speaker it's smart buy bucks we have it exclusively for it for $65.99 with promo code cheap dad and you'll find all the promo codes on the product page on the giveaway page and at cnet.com / - be excellent now speaking of all things smart one of the picks under $100 under $50 even is the Google home mini now this does pretty much everything that your regular Google home does in a much smaller form factor the only thing that you're really missing out on is that 3.5 millimeter auxiliary input but you can pair to another speaker by a bluetooth so check the weather ask for directions all of that stuff plus some of the new features that Google is constantly rolling out including one of the fun ones which is Google routines you can essentially set a command to say hey Google good morning and it will start a chain of things like setting off maybe a coffee maker on your smart plug or checking the weather then getting into the ETA to work all sorts of things like that if you give $39 now but Google fluctuates with the price so much it can be even cheaper but it's usually about 39 to 40 dollars so it's a great pick for under 50 first speaker that is so hot because it's the least expensive way to get someone into smart speaker behavior which is still foreign to a lot of people you know our people do not use one of these yet they may know about it but not use it and the price is great and it's tied into Google it's not like it's some you know fringe thing this is the one that's been giving Amazon and Apple fits because it's just such a great device exactly and speaking of Amazon if you want to get into the Alexa ecosystem then maybe the Amazon fire HD 8 is the tablet for you now this one is actually on special now Amazon's doing a bit of a deal for Father's Day it's $80 you know it's sorry $60 actually it's a regular $80 and $20 off you got an 8-inch screen you've got some great Dolby Atmos sound there plus you have obviously if you're an Amazon Prime subscriber you have all of the benefits of all of those TV's movies and so on and the big thing that a lot of people forget about tablets is that once you've got a tablet you're not usually upgrading that often the good thing about this one is that it has micro SD storage so it's expandable so you're not just stuck with the baseline storage that you buy it for you can add in micro SD card in and add all the media that you want essentially yep totally vital to have upgradable storage in a tablet because it's not something you're gonna upgrade very often these things are great because they last forever they're not like your phone where you always replace it every year or two you're gonna have yours for years I'm guessing so make sure you can upgrade it okay folks next up or as we're getting rolling here laptops and phones are getting right into the sweet spot of what everybody wants headphones going that category as well but first we're going to mix things up a little bit and give you a little retro sneak peek back at how Father's Day looked in 1978 check this out sunday is Father's Day and Jules got the perfect way to let that know you care plan his favorite meal featuring fine foods from jewel like meaty tender beef rump roast through Saturday it's only at dollar 59 a pound and don't forget this dad's day treat farm stand watermelon through Saturday it's only 12 cents a pound yes you can make dad feel like king for a day with special help from jewel okay we're coming back to the scene that's live dads and grads Gift Guide and deals show clearly as we just saw you always want to go safe and give dad some kaopectate as well now let's talk about some back to business stuff here laptops great gifts for high school grads especially they're heading off to college we're having a computer it needs to be a really good machine high power very durable you know not necessarily a starter laptop or a loaner Chromebook anymore I've got one of CNET's favorites here on the windows side now this is a Lenovo yoga 9 20 what we're looking at here is obviously a Ultrabook in its first form where you've got a fan and light laptop really good build quality I mean I'm not I'm not kidding here that hinge is like a door hinge at your house you cannot flex this thing watch it snap in half just cuz I'm doing it right right right now this is a portrait test now because it's a yoga it does different things you can flip it around like yay and now you've got this tablet form factor so this is it's a little bit of a horsie tablet cuz it's got two panels but this is nice on a plane when you've got one of those crappy economy seats and no room to open your machine conventionally or the other yoga trick is this you go into what's called 10th or card mode and this is gonna give you the ability to set up basically an easel which can also soothe some different sorts of media consumption creative use or screen sharing modes this is a great machine around 1,300 bucks depending on configuration and the latest model has a pin for input as well now if you're on the window I've run the Mac side of course the Apple MacBook the straight-ahead MacBook is just a sweet spot among their machines this is one that is a 12 inch screen but they push the monitor out so much it really takes over the entire lid it's got this dramatic look it has this rather controversial still one USB C port is it's only connectivity aside from power and you're going to have to get a breakout device I think which could be a nice gift to include with it but this is such an incredibly well built super light high performance machine doesn't have the very latest Intel processors but it's got enough and man people look at that and just say this is the coolest gift I've ever received so that's a real sweetheart right there if you want to go the other way not super thin and lights look at this new guy from HP this is the NV 17 t touch and as you can see it is a full-on desktop replacement it is it replaced me at this desktop it's got banging olsen speakers it's got an optical drive it's got some it's kind of terabyte SSD inside it that's how much horsepower that's all that's right and so we are actually running an exclusive with HP just for seeing that users you can get 25% off any HP Envy any pavilion a bunch of different SKUs from HP 25% off anything that's priced $1200 or above so you have a lot of options there so go check out the latest HP's okay and the cord for that one was seen at 18 PC if you want to go check that one out actually it has seen that PC 18 okay now I'm going to switch gears and talk about phones dads need them grads practically live on them so if you want the flagship phone right now you have a couple of choices galaxy s 9 and s 9 plus obviously the top-of-the-line Samsung right now wireless charging beautiful screens there too and the big feature on the s9 and the s9 plus is of that variable aperture camera so if you're into photography or even if you're not into photography that lens is actually gonna change the aperture between two settings it's kind of like the iris in your eye it closes down and opens up depending on the light and you don't need to know anything about photography to understand that it's gonna just give you some much better photos in low light but if you are a photographer you've got some nice manual controls there in the default app - so that's the galaxy s 9 and s 9 plus also if you have a spare thousand dollars lying around because I know what we all do the iPhone 10 obviously is the flagship Apple device same sort of things as the S and s night plus wireless charging of course that beautiful screen the dual cameras you get all the sorts of effects like portrait mode and so on and face ID and face unlock with that biometric face screening thanks to that front facing camera and of course the notch I know that that's a somewhat contentious and I'm some people I don't really mind at all they're not she's it is what it is alternatively if that is too much money for you and you still want a flagship phone with the same sorts of performance as you're getting out of the s9 and the iPhone 10 the one plus six is also a great buy this is uh we know around the five hundred and thirty dollar mark very similar kind of feature sets there we have you know the dual cameras the fingerprint sensor the beautiful edge to edge screen of course the knotch to there is facial unlock to it is not quite the same level as it is on the iPhone but it's still there for the biometric enthusiasts out there and it's it's a much better deal if you're looking for all of that kind of performance in a flagship handset without the big-ticket item price so speaking of all this we've got the premium Apple phone the premium Samsung phone and the premium Challenger phone Rick deals on phones scare people because they think they have to go through an activation and a carrier contract that's the old holdover logic at least in the American market how do you get a deal on a phone for someone yeah so I'm happy to say these are not cheapskate approved but it is actually possible now to get a really solid phone for a lot less in fact I would advise people to look kind of at the latest models from Motorola like their new g6 which I think comes in at around 300 or maybe even less Amazon carries it and they often run deals on it that is a fairly powerful phone and you buy it unlocked it worked its carrier agnostic so it can work with with just about any carrier and for literally a third of the price of what you might pay for the latest some Samsung or from Apple you can get a really sweet phone so don't be afraid so the two things for someone to know about gifting a phone is unlocked whether you understand it or not you want it to be unlocked and secondly you want it to have these two networks that supports GSM and CDMA you just have to remember those those three a queer unlock gsm cdma if you do that like the phone that Rick's talking about that does all those things there's not going to be a problem whoever you're gifting it to whether they want to get new service for it or use it on their current plan it's going to work and that's the key it's not as hard as it basically looks and if you do need a phone we also have the giveaway as well yes we do let's talk again about the iPhone eight which we are giving away courtesy of us mobile it comes with three months free service and you can enter that giveaway at cnet.com slash the seventeenth excellent well let's check in on the questions on SEANET live the hashtag on Twitter we have a lot of questions and we'd love to hear your thoughts here so first one from Richard what is the best sounding sub $50 Bluetooth speaker it's a tough one sub fifty all right so this is my category of course so if you can rich it if you can scrape together another 16 bucks or so the alley speaker that I mentioned just a little while ago at 65 99 is actually a really great choice but if that's a little too high I would say check out the cheapskate block which I write daily at cnet-dot-com-slash-loaded speaker deals there routinely some would say too much and you'll find lots of great options for $50 and lasts sometimes a lot less we showed a few minutes ago a little bit further out of the price range at $80 but frankly that is at the lower end as well along with all of our top rated Bluetooth speakers you can always find those on CNET because that's how seen that's always laid out you've always found a list of best products in any category that we've got and our best Bluetooth speakers for 2018 is no exception you can find a lot of price ranges there as well so let's grab another question this is from a Chidambaram I'm sorry if I didn't pronounce your name correctly any deals or gift ideas for a non tech friendly dad living overseas so something like perhaps the digital photo frame something like that so you could deliver photos via Dropbox or a service like that the last time I I'm just not gonna not gonna go there I know actually no we have something coming up here very shortly that I think would make a great overseas gift for a dad so if we want to stay tuned we can get to that and also be aware of things that stream because you've got a lot of different international roadblocks in terms of content rights on any of the streaming media devices music or video to be honest but especially video may not work if you were to ship it to them you specially if it's a gray market export you're shipping a US product to someone so it'll work it uses the same kind of power it may not have the rights to pull the video absolutely and so Paul a simple question Amazon firestick or Roku stick that's the question but we are going to be talking about all things TVs streaming and so on coming up so stay tuned for that yeah and we also have a question for a best deal on dash cams that I know you that answer later stay tuned because sure yeah okay all right so that's one of the smart picks we've got coming up dash cams are so hot sit tight for those and many other things great favorite dads and grads gifts all will also be including headphones coming up in our next section and you can spend a little or you can spend a lot I know what Rick direct what direction Rick wants to go I go the other way so we're gonna see who's gonna win that tug-of-war in the meantime here's Oprah speaking to Jay School graduates at USC a few weeks ago you will become the new editorial gatekeepers an ambitious army of truth seekers who will arm yourselves with the intelligence with the insight and the facts necessary to strike down deceit to take everything you've learned here and use what you've learned to challenge the left to challenge the right and the center when you see something you say something and you say it with the facts and the reporting to back it up okay all right folks lots of commencement speeches going on this time of year were peppering those around just keep things in the feel and the flavor of what's going on as well as what's going on with grads as well we have a few more inspirational Clips coming up but first we're talking headphones these inspire a lot of people as well because they sound great and they're really part of your look these days right headphones are a great go-to gift there's almost no one is not going to use these whatever you've got is gonna want to put out its audio through a headphone so Lexi we've got some pics start us off lots of pics okay sorry for the Apple user in your life obvious the obvious choice is the Apple earpods so if you do have an Apple device they pair incredibly quickly thanks to that w1 chip all you need to do is essentially just bring it close to your device and it will just bring up a prompt and you pair it like so the call quality is pretty good if you are using it's kind of for that primary purpose as a Bluetooth headset and you can control with just a simple DoubleTap and also if you're listening on something like Apple music unfortunately Apple products that seem to get the preference when it comes to Apple products who would have thought if you are using Apple music you can pull one ear pod out and then essentially it will just pause the music put it back in and the airport starts to play again and and the wireless charging case that has been long thought of and rumored should hopefully be coming soon alongside with the Apple air power charging pad so this will charge your phone the airport's and also the Apple watch that's coming soon but if you do have Apple devices and these are the way to go but they don't fit necessarily very well in some people's ears and for me I have strange you know strange shaped ears and they don't seem to fit that well so definitely do try before you buy if you do have that problem the other alternative is the Bose sound sport free now this is the completely wireless option to the both sound sport Wireless they are those corded sports headphones they sit really nicely in your ear and you also do have the option of getting different sized wingtips so you can adjust it exactly now these do closed in the sound a little bit more so it's a little bit more enclosed and so you get deeper bass generally all those sound is very subjective I prefer the sound of the Bose to the air pods and they just give you that a little bit more secure of a free especially if you're being active running around they're water resistant the case is a little bit larger but the downside is they do stick out of your ears a little bit more so if you don't want to be running around with something very big in your ear and maybe no me not the ones for you maybe try the airports and but if you do want to go for an over the ear headphone and you're looking for noise cancelling as I know many people are then you really have two options you have the Sony's or the Bose QuietComfort and this is can be kind of a tough call to make I really like the Sony's with the WH 1000 XM - it's kind of a bit of a mouthful of a name to say I'm excellent sound and isolation noise cancelling they have really good battery life just some ears I guess it can sound better than the Burroughs our headphone guru David Connor actually prefers the sound of the Sony's to the Bose but the really cool thing about these Sony's is that they have a feature you know if you're on a plane you know you do a lot of traveling Brian and a flight attendant comes up to you and asks if you want to drink or whatever it might be and you do that awkward lip-reading game you're like I don't want to take the headphone on so like it's a mad lib happening in real time exactly exactly so these ironies have a cool feature you can just cup your hand to the right earphone and then essentially it kind of turns off the noise cancelling it pauses your music and muscles it and then you can actually have a bit of a conversation without taking off the headset exactly so that's pretty useful there for noise canceling fans and I know it's like dad my dad in particular loves noise cancelling headphones yeah I'm going off the off the script here the Jabra elite 65 T's have also been very much talked about almost constantly in the same breath with the air pods lately they're a great alternative to those they kind of come in a similar case they kinda have a similar looked about a hundred fifty bucks their car annoy loves those as well this David Carr Noi sort of measurement is one of the great ways to know if you've got a great headphone or not yeah and so if you'll excuse me I'm out here for just a minute this is obviously a deal that we're gonna be talking about but I'm not gonna give you the deal right now you're gonna have to stick around and find out what that is but I'm just gonna fly it because what could possibly go wrong that was totally live not pre-recorded we're gonna get you a little purchase and deal information on that coming up that's a little teaser right there okay next up dad's do-it grads do it I'm not going there gaming we got all our topics coming up as well and more discounts from Rick but first continuing our celebration of dads here's an incredible one no that way why would they change math math everything is great he's in excellent health is freaky okay folks it's time to talk gaming and game accessories this is a one of those sort of Pam populist hits that is lots of fun some gives you a little more utilitarian this is definitely not utilitarian we're talking about total fun here some of the greatest time wasters in the world that everyone's gonna love on this man elects a year a big gamer I am a non gamer alright so there's lots of different options for gamers out there I want to talk about a couple different things at all different price points for all different sorts of gamers first up is the Xbox one X Microsoft's flagship console it's got the most powerful graphics you can imagine it does HDR it does 4k the thing is though with the Xbox one X even if you don't have a 4k TV it's gonna be down sampling so you get the best possible image even if you just have a regular 1080p screen and also because it's III now there are a lot of different games that have been announced especially yesterday at Microsoft's press conference so many more games being announced exclusives including Halo infinity sorry halo infinite Gears of War cuphead there's so many more games out there for the console and it's now actually a bit of a discounted price for four hundred and fifty dollars and so rumors have it that maybe the price will drop even further just because Microsoft dared to say that there is a new console on the way but in a couple of years time no time frame there anyway if you're not a console gamer maybe you like kind of an all-in-one headset and you like virtual reality you want to get a bit of a taste of it the oculus go now this is Facebook's oculus it's their all-in-one headset so previous you know VI headsets like the gear VR you needed the phone to slip in there this is all-in-one you don't need the phone at all to run this except for as the initial installation and putting any extra apps on like so it's actually pretty comfortable and it's not very heavy if you're using it for extended periods of time you have all of the apps and the games on the oculus store the field of view is pretty good too and it doesn't get too hot it's got some some integrated speakers that kind of like give you that all-encompassing sound it's actually very impressive I put it on I thought and the sounds not going to be very good it's actually very decent you can also plug in headphones too and it comes with a little controller too obviously so you can play it or your games on navigate like that definitely if you get the chance try the rollercoaster in VR demo a that comes with that yes it's a lot of fun I really highly recommend okay and if you're a retro gamer and you love your retro games like me you grew up maybe with your Nintendo consoles SNES classic like you can't go past this look look how adorable this is adorable everybody you don't need cartridges anymore it just comes with all the games built-in Mario Kart anyone who wants to take me on I will definitely take you on I am the queen of Mario Kart self-proclaimed Donkey Kong Country Super Mario World a bunch of different games plus the unreleased star fox 2 game was never actually released it was teased a lot at the time when the SNES was actually out in the big forum back in the 90s but you can actually play it for real on this it's still really hard to get your hands on though I have to say still hard to find don't have to find $80 so when you do see it pick it up and you'll just have to just get lucky hopefully and find it when it does get a release although I do hear the extra shipments are being made at the end of June if you do find one it's like wow where did you find one that's a nice little extra punch for the game absolutely and all things Nintendo as well you can't go past the Nintendo switch obviously this has kind of really changed the way that we game on the go it gives you the flexibility of plugging into a TV but the most exciting thing is that it has the the classic updates to the Nintendo games if you are a Mario fan Super Mario Odyssey if you want to play Zelda this is the console for you and you can plug into a TV a plug on the go I play on the go the controllers switch off like the name suggests and you can play it all enclosed in one if you so desire it's just a lot of fun to play and perfect for the Nintendo aficionado in your life a lot of hits scroller Donkey Kong it's basically available now you can play it it's a perfect size we need to remind everybody that we are giving away an iPhone 8 the red edition this is courtesy of u.s. mobile our partner and it comes with three months of service courtesy of them as well now to enter you go to cnet.com slash the giveaway is live by the way until June 17 it's not gonna like cut off at the end of our live show right now so that's cnet.com / see it right there enter to win a brand new iPhone 8 red that is pretty sweet right let's check the Senate Live hashtag don't forget if you do tweet us a question you may get a surprise we will stay tuned for that let's go to some of the questions from David a low cost equivalent to the airports that actually stay on my ears you did mention this earlier the Jaybirds that's a good alternative there and they're probably around the same price as a street price off of 170 list so that's kind of the price point theory this is this is a nice pair of earbuds but a really strong alternative to air pods absolutely and we have from Kathy any drone deals for dad stay tuned you want to stay tuned and from Jeff which Roku stick is the best value for money right now we're going to get into that you know the Roku sticks are all pretty good good value I think it's a solid they're all pretty good value the 49 so what's the $49 one I always forget the name of that one but they change your name for they do always change the names and then they have the similar functionalities and they're called something similar except with an extra feature on the end of the okay something like that I think we're looking at the Roku streaming stick that's the one that's the one I recommend that one's a really good valley there that's the that's the sweet spot right now and pull it up yeah $55 Street I think a $70 list but you won't need to pay that and recollect you're proud of me that's 4k 4k TV absolutely we'll keep your questions coming on the same net live hashtag let us no and stay tuned for the surprise okay we got smart-home coming up next this is kind of fun because especially for a dad gift because it's something that the whole family can enjoy so we're gonna go to CNET's smart-home in Kentucky in Louisville for that but first continuing our salute to 18 grads everywhere here's actor chadwick boseman the Black Panther himself back at his alma mater back at Howard here's what he had to say now this is your time the light of new realization shines on you today how his legacy is not wrapped up in the money that you will make but the challenges that you choose to confront as you commit to your past press on with pride and press on with purpose god bless you I love you Howard power forever okay folks welcome back to CNET's dads and grads live show we are here to give you the best deals the best picks and the best deals cuz the deal is no good if it's not the right product we're trying to go you thread the needle there on what the best things are in each category and give you some great prices as well I'm Brian Cooley joined by Lexus Vitas and CNET's deals guru The Cheapskate himself Rick broidy here in person quite a treat we're hoping to find you the best tech products here now speaking of great deals we want to thank our sponsor Daley Steel's comm aka the folks known for the squirrel not entirely sure why but I'm glad they are cuz the squirrel is really cool okay next up is smart home CNET actually has a smart home here in San Francisco it's our newest smart home not our first we have a smart home in Louisville Kentucky we have a smart apartment right downtown it's actually kiddy corner from the Louisville Slugger Museum slash factory so if you're in Louisville make sure you check it out there and we want to get a take from our smart home team from rich brown and Andrew Gabbard here's what they would recommend for you yeah hey everyone I'm rich brown we're here in the CNET smart home in Louisville Kentucky I'm here with my colleague Andrew Gebhardt hello and we've got a whole assortment of appliances and smart home gadgets we think would be good gifts for dads and/or grads coming up here so Andrew once you kick it off what's this thing sitting next to you it's an air fryer so if you like deep fried snacks but maybe not all of the negative health aspects of deep fried snacks this thing is essentially like a convection oven but it can sit on your countertop and its really good for quickly making stuff like mozzarella sticks pizza rolls so it'd be anything to have in a college dorm room if you just graduated from high school and your dorm would be pretty popular if you were turning out snacks like that for beds it's a good fit for a basement bar and this one in particular because it's 70 bucks and it performs just as well as the ones that cost you 300 bucks all right on the other end of the price scale we have this Breville precision coffee maker so this is a $300 coffee maker aimed really at the people who are most passionate about coffee out there what's great about this one it has a nice big 12 cup reservoir but also it's super precise in terms of the controls for the for the water temperature as the timing of the brew so you can take pretty much any grounds throw it into this thing and it will just make some of the best coffee you've ever had all on your countertop again it's 300 bucks so someone has to really like coffee to want this thing but this is the one that we like best in terms of high-end right now all right so onto the smart home products we have sort of an assortment of devices here Andrew what is that thing that's sitting right in front either it's a doorbell you know it specifically doorbell so this thing hangs up on your doorframe and they would hit this button just like they would on a normal and you'd be able to see their face on your phone and you can talk to whoever's at your door without getting up or if you're out and about you can see who's at the door the cool thing about this one so we've seen lots of smart doorbells the other thing about this one is that it has facial recognition so if it's that annoying neighbor again you will know and your phone can give you that notification and it'll even send an alert to if you have a Google home smart speaker mm-hmm it'll send an alert to the Google home smart speaker so smart doorbell and it's a good right in this cost I think just over $200 so it's a little bit of an investment all right in front we've got these two little boxes these are all basically the same product though this is the Chamberlain Mike you garage door opener so this is the product that is actually the door opener you install it onto an existing electric opener in your garage and through your phone you can use it to open and close the garage door remotely you can also check garage door status which is kind of handy at the end of the day gonna make sure you close the garage door this piece is a little bit extra this one costs 80 this one cost 70 so this gets the device working with homekit Apple's smart home platform so with this thing you can actually use Siri to control your garage door with your voice this one supports Alexa and Google assistant out of the box with this you can use Siri so that's a nice probably more aimed at a dad than a grad unless maybe you're living in a garage grad in investment in garage just seems like a good opportunity good you know but for a dad that seems like a great weekend project and also has some handy utility all right big guy in the middle Andrew this is the source one it's a smart speakers so and Amazon echoes the smart speaker a Google home is a smart speaker this does roughly the same thing you can give it voice commands and control your smart home gadgets play music control your TV when you're playing music this one sounds great it sounds better than the Amazon echo it sounds better than the Google home and the cool thing about this one is so the digital assistant in the echo is named Alexa Alexa is built-in here and the digital assistant in the Google home is named Google assistant and that's coming to this speaker as well so you're gonna get the best of all the different worlds and a smart speaker that sounds really good and it's $200 so it's more than the Google home and it's more than the Amazon echo but it's significantly less than the premium smart speakers like the Google home Max and the Apple home pod so a really nice well-balanced smart speaker and I really like it's smart speakers awaiting it started in the smart home because it's fun and it can do a whole bunch of stuff yeah so right now this is arguably the smart home speaker to beat all right we also like for getting started in the smart home smart plugs so this is one of the better examples out there and what's great about this one is it's cheap it's only about thirty bucks you're probably gonna find it for less so this is tp-link Casa smart Wi-Fi plug mini you get all that you get all that it's kind of a mouthful so basically you plug this into any outlet and then you plug in and say a lamp or a desk fan in there in here and all of a sudden you can control that thing from your phone this is nice because it works with Alexa and Google assistant so you get those voice controls in here and it has a really good app so if you want to do things like scheduling or getting it to work in conjunction with other smart home products if you want to say set a scene of a whole bunch of devices to work at once tp-link does a pretty good job of making that easy to set up and again it only cost 30 bucks and it's a just sort of a pretty convenient device to add some basic smarts to your house all right so I think that's about all we've got here in the smart home that we think is good for a data grad and we'll kick it back to you guys great thank you thanks rich they say I do great stuff there that by the way is the scene that smart home in Louisville pretty Lux right an interesting sub point they were making their about some of these devices you know smart homes interesting because it requires a lot of devices to really make a home smart so when you're buying smart home devices especially if there are things that are multiples like outlets or lightbulbs consider buying like a three pack they're typically sold that way by the manufacturer at a much discounted price and that's nice because otherwise if you give someone a smart light bulb or a smart outlet it's like oh great you got got me a shoe no these come in pairs or in threes it's really nice we then they can completely smart apply at least one room in many cases and you've got a nice deal because you bought a package discount as well now Rick's got some smart deals on smart home I do in fact this thing has got dad written all over it and I know because I'm a dad and I'm the guy who's in charge of the sprinklers my house and so like when it's raining outside and I got a run down in the middle of the night to turn the sprinklers off no no no come on let's smarten up that we smarten up the home let's smarten up the yard and we're gonna do that with the the Rocchi o3 which is a smart sprinkler controller and as you might expect it pairs with your phone and you can set it up with all kinds of fancy timing but it's smart enough to know based on the local weather forecast it's raining and so turn off the sprinklers don't water so it's just you know simple thing but man oh man is that useful and I'm gonna just kind of put this in my bag I think I have this right you have all the parts we have on this desk that's the only one that I have that's cool II approved I had that exact unit and CNET editors buy everything with their own money we don't get any freebies we don't keep review units it all has to go back someone we have tech in our houses we spent our own money to get it I'm a big fan of that one it really works well it's Riddler's it's stable which is one of the most important things in a smart home smart home that doesn't always work right is a nightmare this is rock-solid well I hate to ruin this for you because the viewers are gonna get this for less than what you paid for it oh no well you're here so I know that's the key yeah so the Rochester is normally 229 but you can get it for 179 and yeah bucks often I paid with code Cena dad I'll make sure I get that right seeing that Dad fifty and there you go smarten up your yard okay this guy's a big boy here yeah II Kovacs d-bots 900 yeah look at that so first of all first of all d-bots best name ever for a robot yep and it's a smart vacuum cleaner so I think for a grad who is moving maybe into their first home or apartment or whatever and is still a slob yeah a vacuum cleaner that will automatically just drive around and this is the thing with me I was very anti robot vacuum cleaners for a very long time and then I inherited one and it changed my life like I did not realize how useful this was going to be until I actually had it running around because you don't have to worry about vacuuming you just let it go you clean if you live in an apartment or a small space it's an excellent investment if you have a low pile carpet yeah or if you have just a wooden floor and just need to just get like crumbs and dirt off the floor easily it's so much better than having to pull out the vacuum and you know throw your back out that can use a boar I don't care what if you have one of those battery-operated cool Dyson sticks you still never use it to walk around the house and get stuff off the floor robot vacuums are so great because it takes something that you had to do and make some mix into something you don't have to do anymore that's the real gift of smart oh absolutely it's a time saver it's a pain in the butt saver it's a that's a vacuum you got a deal on this yes I did so Eco packs actually has a bunch of different models and this is the their newest one so the important feature to know about this one is that you can actually program zones so that it won't go into rooms where you don't want it to go so you can set up cuddle to keep some of your house dirty you can set up virtual walls basically without any kind of extra gear so normally this guy is 399 but it's on sale for 329 through the well bots website and again we'll have that link and code up on the site so everybody can get that deal 329 pretty awesome that's actually great to have that room exclusion all kidding aside that's a great way to say don't go to certain rooms then maybe your pets use as their safe zone so they don't get freaked out by this thing because sometimes it will drive your pets nuts when it's there when it's new in the home or they'll start writing it because they love it you never know right but this way you can tell you that yes and then you be on YouTube you get your ten million hits but this is nice to say some rooms just stay out of so the dog or cat can go there and no they're not gonna have this thing following them everywhere okay so there's one more here the Y's cam yeah so Y scan was kind of like the breakout story of smart home gear from late 2017 their first model was just a little guy which is called the wise camp and it looked like this cute little Pixar thing and what was amazing about it it's a it's a smart home camera it's a Wi-Fi camera streams video to you on your phone or your tablet so the new one is the wise camp and what was remarkable about the previous one it was 20 bucks 20 bucks for a really capable very good smart camera so this guy is the wise camp anis you can see it looks a little more traditional its taller and it can actually pivot and it has a smart eye so you can actually pan around the room it's not just ya fixed so what what would you pay for a camera like has that electromechanical stuff to be a lot more expensive because getting all those little servos and the smarts to know where to look is not trivial I'm gonna say this is well you know well into the three figures $30 what $30 yeah nobody can believe it and you don't need a code for that that is just the come-as-you-are everybody gets this price that's really cheap you don't have to pay for shipping too but it's really cheap anything motorized and it has all the things I mean it has two way audio it has a night vision it has alerts it will crummy looking thing it actually looks nice and clean and kind of a squared cylinder that's an amazing price for any kind of a network camera that actually has the ability to pan and tilt or to tilt and pan and look around like that that's impressive I didn't know about that one okay wow we got a lot in smart home there I hope those are some good ideas for you I know a lot of this at category is still new to a lot of people we have a lot more coming including TVs and streaming devices to connect to the data grads existing TV but first let's go back in time again another retro dad ad for a little bit of fun we'll be back right after this yes the kitchen for a snack without waking you have to press Daddy's alarm clock really wake up that's great don't wake dad he hit the wild turkey hard last night that's so cool anyway we're back with the live dads and grads gift show that's a mouthful right there it's coulis with Lexi Sabinas and the sea net cheapskate himself Rick beretta imported directly from Michigan I think I stole a Chrysler tagline right there so I have to pay the rights okay so next up now TVs and streaming devices let's talk about these uh I'm a big Roku guy as are a whole lot of people out there as are the scene that editors generally it tends to be our highest rated device over time the Roku streaming stick plus is great because Roku is at least at at this point in history they've remained pretty agnostic they bring everybody into their platform their interface is outstanding now they're starting to become a little more of a channel aggregator and they may start to compete in a more competitive way with Amazon and Apple and say no we do this and you don't but they've tended to be wide open which is what you want in a streaming device you want everything to be available there and let's see the price on that guy that we just took that one up it was a $54.99 is the best price we see on our site right now off of I think a $70 MSRP it's a good price and if you want Roku technology and believe me you do consider getting it in a TV this is a relatively new trend in the last two years but it really heated up in the last year since CES in January the TCL s 305 is a Roku TV so it's a nice flat panel TV of 32 to 49 inches varying prices of course but it's got the Roku tech built in there is nothing else to add to it now you may not know TCL or Hisense I believes the other brain right now that's offering TVs with built-in roku technology it's super slick it's fully integrated there's no other thing to deal with so if you're buying a TV I would recommend looking at one of the manufacturers who make Roku TV is like TCL or if you're giving a gift to someone who's got a great TV give them a Roku stick to to go in there as well and of course the amazon firetv cube is new this is I don't think even available for shipping until later this month but this is the latest thing from Amazon that is going to combine the streaming of a fire TV stick with the smart home integration technology and Alexa built in so if you want to have streaming and smart home put into one place which frankly are usually different constituencies here you get it blended together in a really smart way I think that's a definite one to look at but know that it's not ready until later in June depending when you're watching this particular show it's great for grads because if you're in a dorm room or a situation where you have a Wi-Fi network that you need to add another layer of authentication to like I mean you need to face essentially like that you can do that with the Roku sticks really easily there's a special setup mode so you don't need to worry about being on a home Wi-Fi network where essentially what you need to do is enter the password if you do need to make that second layer of authentication it's actually really useful for grads there and I'm just checking out I'm checking on though June 21 by the way is the date of ship if I have it right or order fulfillment for the Amazon TV cube we have some questions coming out on the Twitter so yes we have lots of different questions first up we have a smart power tool recommendation for dads that love woodworking or a handyman what can you suggest I know this is an area of your incredibly interesting we don't necessarily have a lot of specific reviews on here but I'm a big fan of this thermal pocket camera normally thermal cameras are something you find and like you know war war machinery and aircraft and that kind of thing this is a FLIR c2 it is a little tiny camera as you can see it's kind of the size of a small smartphone and it's gonna be as you see 449 I'm finding it in the mid to high 300s if you shop discount on the street what this is it allows you to look at different things in the home and tell if there's hot or cold going on it's a great way to find our trace certain pipes if it's a cold or hot water pipe or to see where you might have a leak or where you might have something going on with a broken part of an appliance if you've got a dad or a grad who's really into fixing things around the house I guarantee you they don't have this and they would like to have it now it's not cheap but it's a really cool serious piece of gear if you want something's gonna be a little more inexpensive I mean really inexpensive but on the more visual side as well like that look at any number of these and there's a lot of money Amazon in different places this is a flexible camera at the end of a long conduit with a little tiny camera at the tip of it and you hook it up to any smartphone that's the key here on Android phone and Apple phone what have you you hook this up you run a piece of free downloadable software and which is the viewer and now you have this long snake cam that is live showing you what's at the other end of it and 16 feet long I mean you can check out almost any pipe in there you can do your own colonoscopy - no I didn't recommend that don't tweet that and what is this thing $20 I've got a couple of these the image quality is okay it's not fantastic but it's super handy when you're trying to look under an engine for a lost part this is a way to snake down there down a wall to see if you're about to drill into something this is this is really cool and dirt cheap Jamie how long did it take you Rick to fly that drone and learn how to fly it because you did a really good job so it's nice what a compliment they're not a question well really just how long I took you to fly that excellent okay and we have what is the best point-and-shoot camera on a budget from Isaac this is a tough one yeah okay he's my recommendation so if you're not gonna be using your phone I highly recommend that you pick up a either an older model really good all-in-one point-and-shoot that it's kind of got more manual features something like a Sony rx1 so there's a one inch sensor it's gone through a number of iterations I think they're up to like version six now or something so you should be able to find one of the earlier generations fairly cheaply so this is great because you can just use it in automatic mode and just use it as a point-and-shoot if you want but if you do want to step up and get a little bit more flexible with your photography it has the full manual controls it's got video recording and so on so it's gonna be a really good image quality if you find an older generation that's my advice don't go and buy like that cheap you know for $40 Casio that you get at your duty-free or something don't get that got a good one but in older generation I totally agree cuz a few years ago they made really great pocket cameras there's been less of an emphasis lately so either an older model it's still made now or older model that may not be made now and go find the thing on eBay okay Wow still to come we've got a lot of great stuff coming up my picks in the automotive category both cars and accessories it isn't strictly gonna be top dollar stuff and Lexi's gonna have some wearable tech gifts coming up for us as well and more deals from Rick around all these areas but first we salute all those fathers or father figures like rocket in guardians of the galaxy to now a peek back what I just said that's the button will kill everyone try again nobody has any tape not a single person has paid you have an atomic bomb in your bag if anybody's gonna that's a really bad sign okay so a lot of things we're talking about here are dads and grads we try to segment it for dad or grad it's kind of a natural way to go here and our dads and grads gift guide show this year but there are some that are totally universal and wearables are one of them dads and grads and mom and siblings everybody should have an appetite for knowing more about how they are doing how they're thriving how active they are you've got some pics Lexi absolutely and on that note the ones that I'm going to talk about are all good at that but they're also just good as just regular smartwatches if you just really use something as something to get notifications or find out if you missed a message all of these can do that first up is obviously if you're in the Apple ecosystem it's kind of awkward to hold it up and when you're wearing it but this is the Apple watch series 3 with cellular built in obviously does all of the fitness tracking that you would expect it has built-in LTE and so you if you want to be out and leave your phone behind say for example when you go on a run you can do that you can stream music on the go you can also make calls if you find yourself say you get to the end of a round like me and you're kind of too tired to run all the way back home maybe you could load up an app and get a card to take you home so that's the sort of thing you can do with that watch o s5 which was just announced last week at WWDC as well it's going to give a lot more of the fitness tracking features be able to track different types of fitness workouts like yoga and so on and it's also going to be able to automatically detect when you start a workout which sometimes you know you're really in the zone you're going for a great workout a great run and you go half way through I forgot to start my watch and so it's gonna actually just be able to automatically track that and turn it on so that's great if you're looking for something outside of the Apple ecosystem maybe you have an iPhone but you don't want an Apple watch or you have an Android phone of course something like the Fitbit Versa is is a great pick there you're going to be able to get a lot of the same sort of functionality in terms of workout tracking and so on the one thing is you don't get GPS in this guy so if you do want to actually go and track your runs and things like that you're going to have to take your phone with you otherwise it uses your stride length in order to determine kind of like your route and things like that to kind of give you an idea of how you're progressing but what I do love about the Versa is that it has this really cool coach feature so it's like workouts without needing to actually have another screen you can just go hey I'm gonna follow the workout and it's gonna guide you through step by step dude tents are Jung's do the 15 push-ups things like that so it's a great tool to have on your wrists without needing to bring say your phone to the gym or wherever you're gonna be more than that yeah exactly shoot and battery life this is the one to get if you want four days of battery life great absolutely exactly and but if you are someone who likes the more traditional watch face look so a circle rather than a square which I know a lot of people do then the Garmin vivo is one to consider it looks like a watch it has an LED panel so essentially it's gonna give you notifications and but it just turns off and just looks like a regular analog watch which is really good if you just want to kind of be a little bit more incognito you get those traditional features like heartrate obviously that HR and the name gives you a hint sleep tracking step count works on Android and iOS is water-resistant to up to 50 meters and it gives you notifications too so if you do want to use it as a SmartWatch it's got everything you need right there in one unit so that's another option if you want to be a bit more platform agnostic too yes Wow some good choices there and this is an area that as you mentioned we're seeing a lot of cannibalization or you could call it merging of the fitness role and the communications a notification role a lot of its coming together in one place so increasingly people are thinking watch when they think fitness but there are still a number of great fitness bands out there as well Rick what do you got for deals yeah so I had to stop myself from laughing when you said it has a four day battery because I'm gonna say hi to your four day battery I want to talk about the Amaze Fitbit and this comes from a Chinese company called John John me I hope I'm saying that right and the Amaze Fitbit is amazing because it packs it looks a lot like an Apple watch as you can see and it has a lot of the same features but it's also kind of got some pebble features as well so it has GPS it has a heart rate monitor it has Fitness speed of course it does notifications all that good stuff is has an always-on color screen it's really and actually on let's let's be honest it doesn't look quite that bright I'll take a little sticker off but it's really it's really a stylish little watch kind of looks like like my Apple watch a little thinner a little lighter I'm real close the lawyers on this but would you like to take a stab at what the battery life is on this guy well I'm blown away by four days okay from there on yeah so the battery is actually good for up to thirty days charge okay and now real-world use I've used it myself more like twenty to twenty five depending on the features you use if you use the GPS if you get a lot of notifications yeah it's gonna be a little lower but if you can get three weeks out of your watch yeah so that is pretty good and that's actually one of my favorite products of this year yeah because it's such an amazing deal at a hundred dollars but you don't have to pay a hundred dollars no sir with the amazement website and use promo code cheapskate this baby is seventy bucks that's amazing now if that's too much okay you're looking for a gift for Dad for your grad you just can't quite swing the the seventy bucks let's talk about the jarv run fit pro which is obviously styled a little bit more like a traditional fitness tracker this guy does heart rate monitoring and even blood pressure if you can believe that plus it'll do notifications and all the other fitness II kind of things as well and I don't quite recall what the battery life is on this guy but I can tell you it's forty to forty bucks which is already a killer deal but is part of our show if you put in the code that you can see on your screen and find on the website it's only thirty bucks so for a full-blown fitness tracker with heartrate and all of it for thirty bucks come on and that's good because you can't lose at that price and this is a good proviso if you're gonna give one of these know that the abandonment rate on fitness bands can be rather high people either love them or they don't they don't know until they try them so this is a really great place to use Rick's deal to get one that's a nice looking product they'll never know you paid thirty bucks for I believe I'm looking at it right now and yet if they don't use it forever and put it in a desk drawer after a few months you're not gonna like why I wasted so much money thank you very great great picks there now we've got last category coming up and it's a big one literally and financially cars and car accessories don't get apoplectic yet I've got a lot to say about some car picks and Rick's got some great new deals as well plus the coupon code for the Star Wars drones but first here's a clip from NYU's recent commencement we can see it all around us there's a peculiar fascination with dystopia in our culture today you see it everywhere on film and TV but the truth is that unbalanced we have the good fortune to live in a time of tremendous possibility and potential a time when it is within our grasp to eliminate extreme poverty to end terrible diseases like malaria and TB and to offer a real chance at an education to everyone on this planet okay folks time to hyperventilate as we talk about our dads and grads gift guide show Brian Cooley Lexi savita's and Rick Brewer to the CNET cheapskate hyperventilate cause here where we actually say with a straight face consider giving a car and people go okay yeah okay money boy we're gonna get people a car I think of dad a car I regret a car well now think this through because the way you can do financing and Leasing today especially if you're looking at a grad who you want to have a safe car with the latest safety and driver assist technologies and then maybe you seller to get away from the lease after their period away at school it might not be as luxe as it sounds so here are two picks out of many it's very hard to tell you what kind of car you want to get somebody but two that are sort of odds on go twos include the Mazda mx-5 known as the Miata the current version is just a home run we absolutely love this guy in either soft top form or it's also got the RF model which has a hard top but this is such a sweetie you want to check out our video on this we have so much fun whenever a Miata comes in you can get into these for as little as twenty seven thousand dollars which is again a lot of money I get it but if you do want to nose around this idea you will get a grin from ear to ear on that grads face and it won't go away immediately it's gonna last for years because this car is fun every day you drive it the other total home run I want to mention here would be a Jeep the Jeep Wrangler this is the other sort of hottest car in the world right now under $50,000 it's just a total cultural phenomenon a Jeep Wrangler you can get into for the for the mid-20s and here you're looking at a vehicle that of course has incredible off-road ability but it's also got this great social status and style trend this is just one of those things it's almost like part of the social zeitgeist right now again both these cars in the in the high 20s base and modern vehicles with great technology great safety systems in them and of course dead reliable which you're not always gonna get even with the most well-researched $5,000 well-preserved beater on Craigslist you just got to be wary of those so learning a lot here live on the show some I didn't want to happen in public but it's good to know all right let's about some accessories yes you talked about safety and I think you know one of the hot categories right now is dash cams which is actually a great safety feature so you can keep tabs on what's happening in front of you and in some cases behind you so the model I have here is the van true and 2 pro and as you can see it's not only a front-facing dashcam but also a rear-facing one so it has two cameras you get to record everything that's going on in front and then of course your carpool karaoke sessions you can record those as well it's got all the bells and whistles it'll do everything that a dashcam can do and then some and it's very compact and it just mounts up on your dash very nicely yeah normally this guy is 200 bucks which is what you pay for a high-end dash cam as part of our show today with promo code CNET show you can get this for 140 so we just did a video on dash cams and that was one of our favorites because it has that really high-res going in both directions at once it'll do 1080p both ways at once in the car and looking forward and this is just a really nicely designed one and if that's a little too rich for your blood there are lower and less expensive dash cams like this one from Aki this is the dr0 one and as you can see it's very small it's very simple to use you just mount it up on your dash and it'll automatically start recording and it just gives you the basic features that you want from a dash cam but it's starting prices 58 bucks and you can get it for forty seven dollars with code CNET for dad and that's the number four so you have a lot of options when it comes to dash cams and this is a particularly great deal on one so we remember just in case you're not clear on the dash cam idea this is a camera that looks outside your windshield and records all the time it's just that simple so whatever happens you don't have to say gee I wish I was recording it was recording and the number of hours or days it can record is based on how big a card you put inside of it so always if you gift one of these make sure it has a card and if not buying a card to go with it make that the whole kit so your recipient can use it right away and get a big card they're so cheap these days that way they can get a number of days before it starts to rewrite video yeah great points so next I want to talk about a safety item that really every driver have yeah so this is from Gullu and this is a this is a portable jump starter so if you people don't believe it when they see it that that can start a car oh absolutely so if you're like me you live in Michigan someplace where the winters are bad you don't want to wake up to a strand you know be stranded somewhere with the dead battery so keep this guy in the car it comes in a nice little zippered case and it will jumpstart your engine for you it even has a USB port so that you can jump-start your dead phone it's all it's all that matters to you more in life so if you have to call a tow truck at least you can so normally this guy is 70 bucks but we have a promo code that will get it for you for forty five forty nine so again it's just it's a quotation so smart dad a grad a mom I drop out anybody I definitely recommend every driver have one of these if you've got a dad who drives the Porsche let me tell you this is a particularly good gift because a lot of Porsches have the battery in the front and they also have a power trunk release so when the battery dies and you go to get to the battery to charge it you can't because electricity is not there to open the trunk to get to the battery and it's just crazy catch-22 have one having one of these somewhere other than the front trunk where the battery is allows you to then jumpstart the hood to then jump start the car is the Porsche thing and believe me Porsche owners could really appreciate that so if you got a well-heeled dad on your list you just talking about of buying a Porsche it's a weird little Achilles yeah so for the tinkerer the guy who likes to get under the hood or the or the gal or anybody who likes to get under the hood we have this Foxwell ODB am I gonna get it right Oh blue beanie dude whoo scanner which plugs into that mysterious port underneath your dashboard and it has a color screen and it will basically give you all kinds of Diagnostics about your car so if there's a check engine light you want to know what's going on or you want to get that light turned off this is how you can do that and this one again it's made by Fox well it is normally $44 so a great gift item at that price for anybody who likes to tinker yeah whoever it may be in the family and those are neat because you can also tell what's going on with your car in more detail before you take it in to get it fixed as well as clear in codes to make sure the code really does come back sometimes during a code maybe all you need to do is it happens it's been known to happen and we have a lot of videos that that I have done on how to use obd2 readers at least a couple of them out there are this so you can find those if you just go on CNET search obd2 they'll pop right up and you can get some tips on how to get the most out of these the last one is the one that everybody can use yeah so I'm on a crusade here I want the every a car owner and phone owner to have some kind of a car mount for their phone because when your phone is down by your in your lap or in the cupholder or whatever you're taking your eyes off the road even if it's just for a second and that's no good your car needs to be up and your phone needs to be up near eye level so you can just glance at it if a notification comes in you're changing your music or whatever so there are many different kinds of mounts available but one I have to share with you today as far as the deal goes is the jar of premium Universal flexible air vent mount and it goes inside your air vents and then it gives you a universal cradle that works with just about any phone okay it's normally twelve bucks I think we have it for seven seventy seven with the coating is more yeah it's crazy cheap and well if it's not this mount than another somebody gets your phone up at eye level please please please be safe and the key thing about these vent mount città becoming very popular of late and some of them are magnetic some are friction like this a lot of ways to do it is when you're on the vent you're especially safe because the vents tend to be high but not up on the windshield with a suction mount which in many states a lot of folks don't remember is illegal and you're also kind of going against the grain here because you're blocking some of your view where the device is supposed to make driving safer so getting away from the windshield suction mount is kind of a good idea but keeping it high with a vent mount like Rick says it's a great way to split the difference and do everything right and not take any sort of steps backwards okay Rick it's time for the big reveal on the Star Wars drone deal we love you fly this thing with exceptional skill yeah I just want to keep flying it I don't want to talk about the deal let me just have my fun with this thing so yeah the propel Star Wars battle quads you know they debuted last year they were a hundred and eighty bucks apiece there's three different models there's the TIE fighter which I this is Darth Vader's TIE fighter and there's an x-wing and then there's the speeder bike from the Jedi of course and these are just great fun drones but like I said they were a hundred eighty bucks apiece it's like only the most affluent but watch what happens it's just opening the box is great so anyway these were 180 bucks apiece barely a year ago the deal we have right now with bnh photo is you can get any one of the models for just $60 and the code for that is gonna be C NSW 2018 but wait there's more if you want to get to and you do there 99 bucks if you want to get three it's a hundred and forty and what's the advantage of getting more than one is that you can have aerial dogfights with these things that you wanted to have as a kid now you can have as a dad or a grad these are some of my favorite drones ever and at this price a steal resell to of money BAE it's like when Amazon Prime account you know you sell it off to make it free to yourself whatever you got to do that is such a cool drone if you miss trick flying it earlier going off the script okay thanks everybody we're gonna wrap it up now we got through a lot of products so a lot of codes on the screen and thank you to the tweeter yes thank you very much to 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