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hello and welcome to a very special edition of CNET's holidays by our guide how are you my name is Jeff Bakalar we're coming to you live from our studios here in New York I am joined by CNET senior editors Bridget Carey and Aya's Akhtar we're also very lucky to be joined by CNET's mr. cheapskate himself rick Broudy came all the way over here just to beat me up over that digital picture frame nonsense from last time thanks for coming your way thank you for having me I'm gonna light it excellent it's your friend baggage yeah a lot of baggage here with Rick we're gonna get through it okay oh there are a few things that will make today's broadcast special rick is gonna share several CNET exclusive deals to help you snag some good prices on last-minute tech gifts and then is is gonna give a rundown of his hottest smart home products for the holidays and I'm gonna break down some my favorite tech toys for the kiddies and House of us grown adults who still play with toys yeah and we're gonna be answering your holiday gift toy and other questions like all tech questions live at the Twitter hashtag see that live so if you have any gift questions don't be shy just turn us away yes please we're giving away as if that wasn't incentive enough we're giving away 10 free spero mini robots that's right 10 lucky viewers will have a chance to win one of these if you want a shot at one of these fantastic little robot thingies scare your dog with all we have to do is follow us on Twitter we are at seen it on Twitter and tweet at us with the hashtag see net holiday that's one word now here's a little bit of legalese for you we can only offer this if you're based in the US and Canada you've got to be 18 years or older there's no purchase necessary but why would there it's Twitter and if you love reading fine print go check out the rules at scenic dot C ou slash holiday rules okay mister Rick let's get to the deals what do you have for us right now sure right let's start with some audio so I'm the cheapskate okay I'm not gonna spend three four hundred dollars on a pair of beats of course not not gonna happen okay now at the other end you get the twenty thirty dollar earbuds that you know not really great they're okay but we need something in the middle right something that's affordable but also sounds really good and that's what I've got here these are made by one more and these are called the triple driver earbuds and they kind of occupy that special place in between beats and dirt cheap so huge well it doesn't break it is a big so normally these are a triple driver which is better is good you will driver again that's two and this is three normally these are a hundred bucks viewers today can get these for 75 with code CNET 25 and actually that code will work on everything on the one more site so there's actually a quad driver version of this normally 200 150 with the code and you know I got a chance to listen to these earlier and you know again I'm not a fidelity guy I really don't really care that much but they sound terrific they've got the in line my senior year staying here here they come with like ten different sets of ear tips including the the foam ones that give you that really good seal comes with a splitter over the box do you what do you prefer normally I just go for like the kind of silicone ones yeah if you really want to block out that sound yeah you get like that like like an ear plug would give you yeah so it comes with those as well sounds like this like this lot oh yeah what about on air anything because I'm not about the ear buds like nothing fits at night right so you know what's your with you guys general preference like you go in Iran ear in the ear hole okay in the hole well mostly what I see are people the kids nowadays they like the on ear headphones and again there's always a huge price range with these but today we've got these discs in dh3 on your headphones on my laptop here there we go so look they look really nice they're very stylish very comfortable and normally they're 50 bucks which is actually kind of a great deal already but today you can get them for just 25 bucks with the code CNET love let's drop those down to 25 yeah and these are so these are bluetooth but they also are corded so if you preview we don't want that loss of fidelity from here bluetooth compression you can jack in assuming you have a headphone jack to plug them into actually I think because of everything with the changes of them of the adapters and the whatnot that everyone's kind of putting headphones on their list higher than they were before absolutely absolutely so for 25 bucks this is this is really a great gift item you looks like you spent a lot more than you did that's the best part of gift giving make it look like you're way more thoughtful absolutely cheapskate trick ha ha do we have one more are we gonna move on right now let's do one more so Bridget you promised you'd model me okay I've been waiting for this yeah so these are doesn't matter which so this looks like yeah an ordinary wintertime cap but it's actually a bluetooth headphone it's embedded right yes all right now that okay like I feel like sorry ladies it's cool married wait a minute first off I'm glad we got that right second of all what are their speakers they're just speakers like blessings meters right in this resting it's like roads fabric here but can I see what's interesting is like invisible okay I got you so this is just a hat that happens to be a Bluetooth hello to speaker hat okay yeah what's the sound quality like this yeah nevermind guys okay the idea here is that you know you're you're out walking the dog right and you just want to be able to listen to some music podcast or whatever different I like a different ear thingies for different situations yeah my biggest concern is like the music bleeding out and you know everyone around everybody flip them up cuz they pointed at your ears unless you just flip it Rick better hidden feature and a chair now they're speakers so I want I want to look like Parappa the rapper there you go so the actual deal is you can actually get a 2-pack of these at home one for yourself one to give away whatever from uke stir I think it's the charger is like can you wash these things I wouldn't you can take out the speaker part Oh Lord everything you can't actually watch this cool yeah so normally it's thirty bucks for a two pack I ordered a guess how much they were I'm sorry so the coupon code is seen at ten and that drops it down to 1997 so it's literally ten bucks a piece and you know Secret Santa you know Yankee Swap great little gift item totally yeah I'm impressed so far I don't have really anything to make fun with that I never seen that hat with Bluetooth I have not I saw like this crazy Atari hat with speakers on it that made me kind of rethink everything but that's okay so I walked around town New York City last night with that on just kind of test it out and I mean let's be realistic if it's noisy you know they're not super loud sure but just you know you're when I'm walking around the neighborhood and I'm walking the dog whatever it's nice and peaceful that's great great excellent all right let's pivot and turn to Twitter see what people are talking about again if you want to be part of the conversation all you need to do is use the hashtag see that live okay here are some coming in right now we'll see we'll see what we can do with this well I want to like we haven't been able to do a lot of gift giving advice on all these deals on mobile phones right but we can definitely give advice on a or B like maybe what phone you should get a question that just came in from Julio is hey everybody I have a question should I get an LG V 30 or an S 8 plus these are two Android phones kind of feel like for me the SA plus it's probably the way to go I know a lot of people have problems with the lg screens the LGP 30 use of the same screen as the pixel 2xl and say have you ever seen those reviews for the screen it can get pretty gritty and Samsung makes the best OLED things for phones so maybe they have an inside track on that so if you care about screen quality take this as a guy who owned and returned a pixel to excel because of this screen and a couple other features that kind of stunk I would go Samsung there yeah I feel like that's the kind of movement just just to play it safe I mean you know that's a very highly rated phone on the CNET website so if we're just sort of judging things for what they are out of the box maybe you side with the Samsung phones these are phones that cost more than $100 right yeah really yes they're not friend they don't flip or claim so they're not you can try to clamshell them but only make it a flutter let's see what else we got on Twitter there's some really interesting questions that probably deal with a more personal family issue but nevertheless we'll get right to it Richard wants to know what kind of gift could I give my dad to secretly tell him I don't like him very much this is actually a funny question because it's deep it's like a it's like a price point what kind of tech gift would you give somebody to maybe undercut like I don't think very highly of you I know the Bluetooth hat sounds pretty was a few years back I would say Microsoft Zune yeah that's that's yep assail totally like what would you get somebody to just be like oh I would thought of you and when I thought of you it was I don't like you so samsung note seven oh yeah let me collect it as a term I guess the reissued version I guess you could get him something that you clamp has voice activation on it so anything you go oh you just you just talk to it the pairing and you're like hat pair yeah pair hats yeah and then okay but then you're gonna get a call is gotta be a stupid hat it doesn't work with the voice control and scene all right thank you for being a part of our live interaction portion on the program 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I is Akhtar hello let's talk about all of the things related to smart home tech what are some really solid holiday considerations that you have for the world of smart home gadget tree no he's no in that question yet I'm just waiting for it it's still trickling okay so smart home stuff okay I'm a big fan of the Amazon echo dot now this thing's like 50 bucks you get for $30 refurb it's really get the refresh $30 now they still have it on sale I get a five pack if you want anyway so it's week I'm not even making that it's not gone well you can get it anyway so it's really cheap it's got tons of voice apps which Amazon calls skills and the dot itself can play music from Amazon Prime music or Amazon music unlimited Spotify so you're not stuck to Amazon if you don't want to be the dot isn't the best with audio quality so if you want you can hook it up to an external speaker or you can just get like the larger echo because that's got pretty good audio and those things come in really handy the dot the Alexa devices come in really handy if you have smart home accessories like the Philips hue bulbs which I really love yes know about these things I've heard of them tell us about thank you but the hue bulbs are just a great way to get into small room stuff they're controlled by a hub it can be dimmed at using an app there's also hue bulbs that change colors so if you like mood lighting if you want to match your your wall to chair horror movie you're watching you know you're watching Nightmare on Elm Street you can turn it to red it's really pretty cool and you can attach it to a Lexus you can tell it to change colors and lastly my favorite smart gadgets really more of an accessory it is the Logitech Harmony companion this thing is a universal remote control so if you've got like more than one device attached to your television like a Roku TV or you have a Roku you have an Apple TV chromecast whatever if you got all these things attached to your TV this thing makes it way easier to switch from activity to activity it works with pretty much every device you can think of and it turns every iOS and Android device you have into a remote so if you want you lose the remote just find another device there it goes and it also integrates with Google home and Amazon echo so you can start talking to it I'd like to personally endorse that as well I've been using Harmony remote I know well you were like why did you use stuff no yeah I have been using a Harmony remote for like a 10 years or so and they're fantastic and if this is your first chance to get one highly recommend doing it I've got a lot of consoles and a lot of like jong-kook up to my my TV and I've you know it's kind of a pain in the butt to like explain it to people when they come over you're like well it's just one remote they're like looking for like where's your volume where's it no it's everything you know consolidated into one I I'm a fan so I can talk to it to like another thing to talk to yeah I mean you know they've they've evolved in a direction but there's the the main core functionality what it really does the kind of like magic about it that's the best part I mean do you have one or well I have all that stuff so at home my smart apartment anyway yeah I usually get sidetracked so I'll set up something on television I'm ready to go I go to the kitchen start making a snack and then I really realized - left the television on so I'll doesn't yell out you know Alexa tell harmony to pause it pauses get to do what I'm doing then I go back and sit down and then go gosh we got to turn the lights off I go well exit turn off the lights turn that to red I get to sit be lazy I work really hard to be lazy and smart-home stuff you know just take a little bit of setup but it's really fun when you get to sit there and enjoy if you like sitting I definitely I mean let's be honest Mart home Tech is designed for the lazy man yes that's its raison d'être and also be able to just talk to your TV or talk to your balls and like not like running around like in the old days these Stone Age days we're like flicking switches angrily yeah Oh son I told you turn off that light like no son Alexis it's tough to show anger in those kind of situations all thoughtful exit doesn't hear you yeah you can hear that my son will yell at Alexa go Alexa turn off my room so you know what I just found out I just found out you can change the Alexa trigger words to computer that is way cooler it's very start like computer and play this song for me or like computer what's the weather then you find out that you use the word computer a lot more than you realize yeah but my I have a dot and my dot miss here's me all the time I'm saying something that sounds like Alexa I guess but I haven't quite figured that one out every other TV commercial to it so it's for you definitely so I mean would you recommend an Alexa over a home it depends if you want to ask random weird enquiries Alexa stinks at that okay if you want to have the the device that has the most skills Alexa just been there for a long time locals really play catch-up apples got their device coming up I wouldn't recommend that I don't think $400 right you'd buy one of those go go home max yeah home at home max is $40 as well the home is live about 130 and the menus about 20 I would say get a dot if you don't have to pick one of the two right now because they're just so cheap yeah work pretty well I think and they're connected to the most accessories right now cheapskate approved yeah time oh yeah because so cheap 30 bucks I know you can't go wrong I feel like they're basically free if this just about cuz you know we're all gonna have listening devices in our home so might as well just give them away and you know right don't think too much about that yeah and every time I do it hurts my my head I as you you featured the light bulb stuff go into that a little bit because this is something I've yet to get on board with I'm not convinced I need to speak to my lights so why should I invest it okay so like I said I have an apartment and so painting things is probably not the best idea now some of these color light bulbs I've pointed at walls yeah so if I want to I can change the white walls to different colors now that's way cheaper than hiring a painter or losing my security deposit or painting it myself because I'm not painting it but but why but why life is more color in your life I don't know I guess we're like good here can you give me period okay so like dimming lights yeah that's about to normally don't dam also they're all LED basically cause that much money to run sure talking to them more in particular if I'm doing like podcasts from home if I want the lights to dim by 50% instead of messing with dimmers like literally can just ask it to do it come on those lights turn on can you program it to say set the mood I think there's a couple of ways to do that so if you want to get really weird with it you can yeah just haven't named the room something weird like you know turn the boudoir to do where you go to do you have a boudoir I'm playing do do apartments have a studio in my partner no I was the I was I was joking about that so what about like so what was the last product you talked about up in the Harmony we talked to the homeowner that harmony is just it's just hard now all three things that you've talked about you could probably string together in a series of voice commands yeah and the weird thing is if you don't have a dot you can use the Harmony to control hue light bulbs at this point or you can just use your phone and control those two things you don't need to have a dot it's really if you just want to speak to these things and if you have a Google home you can actually use Google assistant on your phone you can just talk to it instead of like yelling out hey Google or type to it because you don't might not want to talk you're not a very talkative person when it comes to speaking to your home are you know in fact you don't have any of these in my house because of like worries that the government will somehow use it against us sometimes but now I like playing with them though here yeah I before we move on to Twitter stuff I find it very kind of soothing to just you know play games with Alexa and sort of just like you know see what kind of a rabbit hole you can dig yourself into you're not about that jeopardy on Alexa there's there's some fun to be had you've got jeopardy you could say inspire me you know give like an inspirational quote it's is there's like like I said thousands maybe like tens of thousands of skills that allow say like you're talking about mind games though you're you're trying to play other kind of game oh yeah I'm also trying to like constantly and see if like Alexa is like sentient sort of can she tell you the meaning of life right right always and like secretly like also you know trying to manipulate her at the same time the worst thing is when you call it by the wrong name I'll say hey Google and I'm like I'm talking to the echo oh no oh wait you have so you have both I have way too many of these things Wow well my brother gave me a bunch for gifts so here's a bunch of dots oh my god I don't need three dots in my apartment means 600 square feet they can all hear me but the dot and the Google home devices they also have the ability that the nearest one will answer you know they're not all answering you which would we radnik yeah that'd be absolutely insane Oh a multi-room audio don't forget that too uh Emma's on finally added that yeah right but does the Google home do that to Google home did multi-room audio from day one I want to say okay so you're talking about different streams coming from different rooms so if you wanted to say hey play this song on all the Google home device gotcha you could do that in Amazon I think you have to go to the Alexa app group them it has one thing and then you could say play music in this group and it'll do that that was something that's like kind of that taking on Sonos right but it's I don't still don't know if it does easier Sonos but to get into a multi-room audio either ones a good stuff so cheap all right bridge is gonna take us back to twitter in just a second last thing i just want to say if you go into the Alexa app on your phone you can listen to every time you've spoken to Alexa that will freak you right out anyway take it away with Twitter stuff yeah let's see for wondering um Oh game question this isn't going pretty well I can do that lay it on me the ps4 slim yeah alright is this gonna be something that's gonna be good for the next four years or better to go with the ps4 Pro I guess that that thought of paying a little more for the for the future proofing that's a good question surprisingly no ke yeah four years is like kind of like the you know weird spot right because I think for I mean if for years there'll be another PlayStation but I think if you're looking at investing in a PlayStation 4 slim for the specific time frame of four years that's probably not going to do it for you yeah especially if you're gonna own a 4k television at some point in your life I mean III don't think all that stuff is sort of cracked up you know worth it at this point but there is a lot of content that's coming out in 4k on PlayStation 4 Pro some of it actually looks pretty damn good so if you think a 4k TV is going to be in your future and you know you're sort of like weighing the pros and cons I would maybe wait a little bit for a pro purchase maybe when it gets down to maybe $400 I'm sorry at $300 even because it's it's for right now but during the holidays right now you could probably add up around 350 so yeah I think the slim is maybe not the the choice for right now I mean it is very cheap you can get a lot of mileage out of that but maybe you know you have a lot more to think about if you're specifically aiming for that 4-year kind of sweet spot so the VR work with the slim as well it will yeah the VR works with all the consoles and if you use it with the pro there are a couple of sort of you know fidelity improvement advantages you'll get they're less more obvious than than what you get on the actual pro with standard games so that is something to consider as well okay another gaming question oh let's do it very generic they're just like I get a gaming PC or do over my console I guess the eternal question well it depends on what you're looking for I mean if you get a if you're spending you know a couple hundred bucks on a gaming PC you have a very large and seemingly infinite library of games to be able to play at your disposal I'm more sales right now on laptops and PCs - yeah I mean I wouldn't necessarily buy a laptop for gaming but if you wanted to build like a thousand dollar PC you will probably be very well served for you know I'd say the next three to five years so you're gonna get a lot more mileage out of that when you buy a console you are locking yourself into a very kind of closed platform I think ps4 does a better job of opening its arms for for more variety and games and whatnot but yeah I mean for me I kind of play everything I and on PC so that hopefully answered the question yeah there's another question I don't know Rick if you've seen any deals on Mac books I know Black Friday Cyber Monday there was like so much but people are wondering it's now a good time to buy a mac book but MacBook desktop is what they wrote I think they know I know yeah I think I think that's what they mean yeah the MacBook desktop but even so like I don't even know if any Apple sales are hitting your it's a tough one you know anytime I write about any Apple product at all the response I get is and you call yourself a cheapskate you know true yeah they don't really go hand-in-hand yeah so the one thing I do advise people always when you're shopping for Apple anything is to look for refurbs and I mean specifically on the Apple site in there barely you can find it at the bottom and a little tiny length the clearance page where they sell refurbished gear the beauty of that from Apple is that everything you buy refurbished from them has a full one-year warranty same as new if it's a tablet or a phone they give you a new battery new outer casing the whole thing so it's literally as good as new but very often for 10 15 even 20 percent less than new so that that's almost always going to be your best bet for anything Apple all right excellent thank you very much that is mediocre acceptable it's just it's a very tough it's a very tough thing to talk about because when you talk about Apple and sale you're talking about oil and vinegar it's just not really the thing that that meshes all right we have all of our top picks in our holiday buying guide that's up on the site please go check that out for now we're gonna take another break but when we come back we'll have more exclusives from Rick we'll announce a few 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audio uh whose Spotify Spotify user Bob yeah yeah okay so what is it you know Spotify you get it for free what does that mean just because I steal doesn't mean you're gonna drag my laundry I'm a Google Play guy okay weirdo alright well most people get Spotify and pay for it yeah and if you're a Spotify user here's something you gotta have okay does this remind you of anything Oh an iPod iPod shuffle a blessed memory uh uh so this is called the mighty and this is actually a standalone disconnected although it does connect but it's a standalone Spotify player oh just Bob what do you always modify yeah only all of the music ever oh I still use Pandora oh there's Spotify now that's adorable but no for grown-ups we didn't sell euros so the mighty sinks with your with your Spotify account and all your playlists and everything I think it holds up to like a thousand songs and so you sink it over and then now you take it with you to the gym or you take it with you wherever and it's got a little clip just like the shuffle did and simple controls and bluetooth so it can pair wirelessly but it also has a headphone jack because some people like that and so the deal normally the mighty sells for 86 bucks but there's a special link that will appear somewhere hopefully right here maybe if not it's on cheapskate post you can find the link to this it is 73 bucks and you just click through to that special mighty landing page and you'll get it for 73 bucks great gift particularly roses like if you go to the gym that falls on the treadmill you don't mind that falling if I'm following you're like exactly it's the Spotify experience without your phone basically alright I have nothing bad as that sounds actually very like I'm waiting for something no I think it's good actually I've been talking about everyone's talking about gifting Spotify like gifting subscription services now because they don't know what else to give people they're like well I can enhance your life and maybe if I wants to give to me a Spotify subscription clearly it's true thoughtfulness is I'm giving you we can only give away subscription service I don't know the Spotify user who has everything yeah mighty there you go which is also the URL by the way get mighty alright what else is there okay so let's stop we were talking bout the PlayStation so let's talk about a blu-ray player because a thing still apparently and alone blu-ray player and this is an LG up8 70 and it's being offered by buydig it's normally 110 bucks but you can get it for let's see what do we want to be giving that away for today for 80 bucks with coupon code blu-ray Rick because why not you can got your own I got my own code and now there's another one coming so what's unique about this particular blu-ray player is that it supports 4k so you bought a 4k TV you're like we're going to get content for this thing now you can get some 4k blu-ray discs yeah it's got a Mac it's got a back it's got a front and a back and two sides what and if it needs to make a phone call it's okay my joke is you're trying to have some fun over my head you know I don't I don't still deal with physical media myself you guys do but like apparently there's a lot of people out there who still like their discs know that you know it is I think like we were having this conversation on a podcast couple days ago I think there are still enough people for whatever reason like blu-ray is kind of resonated maybe not in the same way DVD did but like people want to own like The Criterion and they want to own like their special feature the highest resolution possible and it's better than streaming quality for the most part it has two different times there's content you can't get streaming like I'm right I got the tick the 90 series on DVD is a gift and I'm like how do I play this because it's on disc and it might put it in my blu-ray player and it died gives a PlayStation 3 which I never goes oh it's that how to buy a blu-ray player that's a good deal and of course the PlayStation is a blu-ray player yeah right yes 1 X will do 4k right but if appeal gets warm not to 4k so you need a 4k blu-ray player here's a chance to get one for 80 bucks good yeah again two for two well really like six minutes yeah yeah alright one more before we uh before we got to get to toys and Bridget alright so let's talk about power everybody needs a charger when they're on the road right so this one from Ralph's power it's the Tower of Power right it kind of looks like sort of a chunky mobile charger but this one has a special feature OS outlet built in so this can actually like a twenty thousand milliamp charger which is surprisingly compact and surprisingly light and it can actually power small appliances so you really actually plug just about your refrigerator small oh it looks like a thermos yeah and so it also has a regular smart USB port of course and a USB C so if you have a type C laptop yeah and charging it from that it does quick charging does quick right just does all the things and this is actually kind of a growing category now I'm sorry I see a lot more mobile chargers that have an outlet built in because sometimes you just don't have the right cord when I heard this is like great for people who are like doing outdoor like like things or even just like like storm prep oh you know you could take a camping with you honestly and you know like you need to plug in a little fan a little light some sort of you know smart ever yeah yeah the color-changing kind it's a bit gonna like you know be out there at least make it look good yeah absolutely so normally this so this is brand new and actually normally this is this is 80 bucks which is so yeah a little pricey for a mobile charger but again outlet and with code Ric code that's just like a trick code it's $70 so it's not a huge savings but it's something and you know okay pretty cool for a gift if you know somebody who is always looking for an outlet yeah I mean that's the thing the outlet is really like the deal maker right here that is so freaking cool alright excellent bridget is it metering let's talk about toys your desk started to look like I fell short so you might as well see what you have to hear about some of the coolest gifts for kids this holiday so yeah I've been kind of digging the whole like tech toy beat I gotta say and have you seen these guys no hottest toy yeah that's not how to store the air right here that's it it's called the fingerlings it's the it's a monkey I've even seen knockoffs already at the mall just like random monkey for your finger like potato fingerlings and yeah there you have all these motion sensors in them and every kid's going crazy for them there that they retail for 15 bucks it has sensors for like set like hearing you talk to it or kiss it I just turned it off to him it doesn't go crazy but um I feel like all the tech toys now or I'll pass this along are all about sensing your sound your motion so you talk to them and I'm getting rid of like the whole iPad an iPhone connected thing yeah you can turn them on the backers will switch and I mean if I get too wild if I start yeah yeah if you flip them and I go cute does it make me to like bet that license that there's no way yeah and well there's all okay so there's another one I love Abela I don't have you seen this babydoll robot but it's a little bit on the low side I don't I mean some girl might say creepy yeah but like so many ways to move and talk so it remember how the fur bait Furby learned you know the more you played with it the same thing starts talking more English than where you play with it senses all the accessories that you're gonna lose like the baby bottle like a pacifier knows when you bring it to her lips and and I was like five different places to tickle her so yeah now it's all about like making it more and more realistic no no freaking demon bear gift for the gift you want to give somebody you hate yeah demon baby it doesn't stop talking a lot of these stories will just keep I was like at least there's an off button and I'm telling you you take the batteries out of that thing it's still working [Laughter] it's been around I don't like how it's always surprised at everything that was bothering my great gift we burn that footage so another one that is like a classic 80s toy that came back this year everyone's kind of going a little crazy with this one I've seen it even sold for more on from eBay for people just trying to find it man yeah it's normally a hundred but they took the same exact stories from when I remember having Teddy and of course they made them lighter cuz there's a cassette player you don't want but in any put animated eyes on them and now everyone who you know was a kid back then and has a kid again is like I got a habit for my kid and I kind of fell in you know in that trap a little bit myself but yeah Teddy Teddy thousand dollars and Teddy's back yeah I didn't you probably presses pause and saying he's got some big eyes yeah lots of why you're scary I didn't realize just like horror toys I just turned them off out there there you go there's a little bit narrow his eyes are all done I've never had a toy with empty eyes before but there you go that's that's the future for you um a little more fun now all right last one this is one of my favorites though it is the new r2d2 from Spiro and it's normally like a hundred and eighty but like it's a hundred dollars now on the web away so what you do is you connect it with your phone and this thing if you if you can get it on the on the table here it is so realistic with all the sounds if I just kind of go on oh you're gonna go yeah and the even does one where if I think this is the one we're like he kind of has a flip-out moment yeah it's got the little leg that comes out I mean everyone everyone is gonna love this thing okay we'll be back for a sequel I bet that's fine he's seen worse he's seen much worse oh I think that was another holiday that's for sure with the movie I guess he just wasn't liking the live show that much we have to take one last break I promise it's the last break but when we get back we'll share a few more exclusive deals and announce more winners and give that little guy some CPR we'll be right back my daddy was always saying to me if you want things to change get out there and be the change if anyone can bridge the gap between that community in the police it's here we've got this together SWAT Thursdays were streaming live on demand we just saved a woman from being tortured it's okay I'd call it a good night's work you can hide you make it back home make it back home to us we got this CBS Sundays I have created the hub where people can submit and dissect evidence when it comes to crime solving we vet any evidence and then put it up with the stroke of a key Oh minimize real-time crowd-sourced crime solving are better than one to uses have you seen this man people want to be a part of something meaningful they're doing it on their own wisdom of the crowd CBS Sundays Thursday's the brains behind the Big Bang Theory boldly go where they've never gone before everybody excited to start school I am high schools a haven for higher learning no dear God when you're a nine-year-old genius oh dear yeah oh yeah this is an exact science I saw one boy with a t-shirt that said yeah that's terrible young Zelda new comedy CBS Thursdays all right thanks for sticking with us this is the last block of our live show thanks for being a part of this whole magic day my name is Jeff Bakalar along with Bridget Carey Aya's Akhtar and seen its original cheapskate the man who has literally never paid for anything his entire life mr. Rick Broyden that's a big accomplishment mr. Broder okay all right so we're gonna want to announce the potential winners soon but first we've got some deals I think let's crank the okay we got lots of bonus deal who's a big bonus deal day so let's just let's just get to these so you talked about the echo dot earlier and if you pair it with a speaker now the dot is suddenly like like a full size it's the whole smart-home thing so one speaker I have that would make a good match with the echo dot is this one from damson audio and damson is actually based in the UK and they make some of the some of the finer audio gear out there and so this is a portable Bluetooth speaker and as you can see it's kind of space-age it's it's very nice-looking I think and this would be just as home as this would be just as at home on a bookshelf is it would be like something you take with you someplace because it's portable right and the deal on the speaker normally it's $90 but you can get it for a code that is TBD I do not have the code I'm trying to say you gotta get you gonna it's Rick something I'm sure it will be that's right cnet.com slash 50 will be the price for this $90 little speaker so again a great match with the echo dot nice gift item oh speaking of code I just gotta say sorry to Lewis on Twitter at chief gut master he says and during the show we keep activating his dodge I apologize no Alexa buy everything you sell sorry cancel dad's all order angry else coming okay what else you got okay so Bridget earlier you were talking about your phone and particularly what happens to your phone over the course of a given day life with a one and a half year old is very interesting when you have a smartphone I just keep mine in a ziploc bag yeah so as we've probably all heard or at least read you know your phone picks up quite a lot of germs and other nasty stuff oh it's Philip ooh yeah everyone has poo particles in all their life they don't even realize it oh that's different than like full of food I wonder how many angry things we'll get for that I'm just saying look it up look it up it's science so what do you have on poo as you should be this is called the phone soap and actually yep best one for laughs okay so this was actually a shark tank thing actually so this is a UV coffin for your phone and put your phone in and index it in just ten minutes no your phone soap device will kill all germs on your phone I guess it's UV light just UV light and you put it on you can charge basically give it a tan it's like it's handing bed for your phone that would be so cool okay I'm gonna drain it comes out a different color all right so normally the phone slope runs $60 and with code seen at 3:00 excuse me seen at 10:00 you can get it for $42 so it's pretty substantial discount and actually that code works site-wide so it's 30% off everything that phones hope offers right now and you know if you're concerned about germs and this time of year for the flu it's going around put your phone in the phone soap and clean it no I I would use it okay yeah you would you I would well I actually disinfect my phone every day wow it sounds it sounds like I'm a germaphobe but my kid like is always putting her mouth on and grabbing it I want to make sure she doesn't get sick so I just a little spray alcohol I this is all for like a good cause right like you're getting your phone clean and whatnot I just is there like a phone germ epidemic I guess are people like getting sick the world is great I know that is all the time like your keyboard is is dirtier than your toilet seat and your phone and the same thing that's the trick it sounds gross if you have an immune system well we have immune system right no you're better off doing that than just you know leaving it in cleanse like oh maybe I'll use it on the toilet we all know like okay totally yeah I'm on board you got something that whoa where'd that come here we go all right I'm not really a tech item but you know I got I didn't use a cup of coffee right about now so if you like a single serve cup and you're not wild about the whole Couric thing with the pods and the waste and all of that this is a ninja single serve coffee maker it's the C f-111 I believe and over at where who doesn't have this sorry this is daily steals this is a hundred bucks I think it's actually priced even higher than that most other places but they have it for $70 with code ds5 and it will do just has a permanent filter you just put in a scoop of coffee put your mug down you get your coffee frapps the little man it has a milk frother Wickle you know what I had never frothed any milk before but my wife has actually made me a convert like you put some frosting really yeah it's the thing and the froth or it's cool yeah and it looks cool two knobs and buttons and which is we know indicative of a good prop of course yeah so what are we looking at how much so that's so it's just 70 bucks with the Internet hang on seven am i right seventy bucks less but for a little bit time $69.99 just for you with code ds5 over it daily steals sideways with that no pod waste no pod wave that is a huge epidemic yeah it is do we have time for one more will you tell me yes we have time for one more deal okay let's let's talk home security a little bit okay all right so these are these are going nuts right now everybody seems to want the home security camera the Wi-Fi camera and this this is one of them this is actually from a company called fuss scam and this is the amcrest Wi-Fi home security camera and it tilts and it pivots and it zooms and it does the whole thing and it can be controlled by your phone it send a live feed to your phone or your tablet or your computer or what have you and normally this guy is 60 bucks but with the code that again will appear online because it's too weird for me to see the log and lots of letters and numbers in knocks it down to 50 bucks okay so a little bit of a savings here and again the the key takeaway here is that these cameras used to cost 100 150 200 dollars and a lot of them still do but you know we can detect motion it can notify you if it senses anything it can save video to the cloud kind of does all the things it's 50 bucks so does it play them around the house you know like everyone's going crazy with how cheap Amazon made it made there the little cloud cam right this was cheaper than that cool thanks Rick we're gonna do one more check in with Twitter let's hear from the fine people in the Twitter world Leslie wants to know what's a good white elephant gift under $25 hmm you're looking at me I mean I've never played white elephant I like my friends it's like it's like that hat we were talking about earlier we're like you got you don't want to spend a lot but you know maybe you don't know if they'll like it or not and you know yeah this is the one right here Bluetooth be me yeah there's the ultimate way don't forget right wait so how does it work like the last person who gets swapped with everyone takes turns this aliquots picks the president opens it up if the next person in line next person the order likes that gift they can steal it just cuts to D so on also known as Yankee Swap and has a bunch of other names too yeah yeah I'm sure we can't say a lot of those names all right there you go thank you so much for being a part of that Twitter conversation let's toss it to ayahs who has some potential winners that's right it's time for us to announce the potential winners of our sphere robot giveaway oh no I think that was enough that was good that did it I apologize if I butcher your Twitter handle my name is aya Akhtar so I've got experience with this we've got our potential winners are at Lindo de mais junior @dp boils at X trendiest underscore t at m1 van won at shipping Flint at G privateer at PDX Oh out that's Ryan trains at my two bits and at Samson Steve Sampson Steve if we mentioned your Twitter handle congratulations one of our CNF folks will be touching base with you over Twitter's 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