Get a Sonos One and $50 Amazon gift card for just $199

Amazon has the Sonos One smart speaker bundled with a $50 gift card for $199, which is what the speaker normally sells for. You can opt to grab it in either black or white, depending on your preference. The gift card is delivered with the speaker, meaning you won’t be able to use it on Prime Day, but odds are you’ll be able to find something else from Amazon to buy in the near future.

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Discover things you never knew with this $100 23andMe DNA kit

Look at your insides.

Get the 23andMe Ancestry DNA Test for $99.99 this Prime Day. This is a Health and Ancestry kit, which gives you more information than the basic Ancestry kits we’ve seen on sale in the past. It normally sells for $200 and doesn’t go on sale as often as the other versions.

These kits are pretty easy. You just take a saliva test, send it off to the lab and get your results in a few weeks (6-8). This one in particular will give you more than just your Ancestry. It will also give you a rundown of your health in regards to your genetics.

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Amazon home page is back up after early Prime Day outage

What great timing.

Update: After an early stumble, Amazon’s home page seems to be working again around the world. Go forth and shop those great deals!

Well that didn’t exactly kick off how Amazon expected. Just as Prime Day kicked off, Amazon’s home page has gone down for just about everyone. In the U.S. and elsewhere around the world, when you head to Amazon’s home page to see all of the new Prime Day deals you’re going to find some sort of error.

We wouldn’t be surprised if Amazon made amends for the outage quickly.

Whether you’re greeted by one of the standard 404 pages with the great “dogs of Amazon” or are stuck in the more frustrating version where you’re simply put through a loop of broken pages, it’s pretty clear something isn’t right. We sympathize with the folks in charge of keeping the site up right now … we can only imagine the immense amount of traffic Amazon’s servers are experiencing — especially as news of it being down spreads. Amazon hasn’t had any widespread technical issues with previous iterations of Prime Day, but of course these sorts of things always come up at the most inopportune times and they’re very hard to plan for.

I wouldn’t expect this to last too long though, and given Amazon’s customer-friendly approach to the way it does business I wouldn’t count out having some sort of extension of deals in order to make up for it. There are still some amazing Prime Day deals to be had when the site comes back up, and for the time being it seems as though direct links to products, and then the shopping cart, are up and working properly. You’ll just have to follow direct links to the deals rather than browsing from the home page.

Best Amazon Prime Day Deals in 2018

Amazon’s Prime-exclusive Moto X4 is down to $200 for Prime Day

Amazon has the Prime-exclusive Moto X4 on sale for $199.99, which is $150 lower than it normally sells for. It’s an unlocked phone that is compatible with all major U.S. carriers. It has 32GB of storage inside, and Amazon’s Alexa built-in as well.

Be sure to check out the full review of the Moto X4 from Android Central and grab one for yourself now.

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Under Armour apparel is discounted by up to 40% for Prime Day

I work out.

Amazon is offering up to 40% off a wide variety of Under Armour clothing, shoes, and accessories. There are items for everyone in the family. This Prime Day deal requires a Prime membership, so click here for a free 30-day trial if you need one.

Make sure to click into each individual item if you want to see the full discount.

For example, the pictured Under Armour Men’s Raid 10-inch Shorts are down to $17.99 in a wide range of colors and sizes. That 40% off discount is the steepest this highly-rated item has ever seen.

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Amazon Prime members can save up to 40% on toys from dolls to board games

Time to start stocking the closet for Christmas.

Amazon is offering up to 40% off a wide variety of toys while supplies last. The deals in this sale are exclusively available to Prime members as part of Amazon’s Prime Day. If you’re not a member, you can still get in all of its offers by starting a free 30-day trial.

Some of the great deals include:

• When In Rome: the World’s First Alexa-Powered Board Game for $24.99
• Barbie Styling Head for $15.39
• 4D Cityscape Batman Mini Gotham City Puzzle for $23.93
• Monopoly (Amazon Exclusive) for $13.29
• Power Wheels Thomas & Friends Thomas Train with Track (Amazon Exclusive) for $76.54

Head to the sale page to see the full selection while stock lasts.

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Prime Day brings up to 30% on these popular STEM kids toys

Amazon has a bunch of STEM toys on sale for up to 30% off right now. From the Sphero Mini to wooden block sets there are a bunch of deals in here you’ll want to check out for your kids.

The sale has a number of items in it that would make great gifts, so you could get a jumpstart on your holiday shopping today and be one step ahead come this fall. Some of the discounts include:

• Thames & Kosmos TKx400i Dual-LED Microscope – $34.99 (Was $100)
• Kinetic Sand Folding Sand Box – $20.99 (Was $30)
• The Learning Journey Techno Gears – $13.99 (Was $20)
• ALEX Toys Future Coders Robot Races Coding Skills Kit – $13.27 (Was $20)

Be sure to check out the whole sale and see what else your kids may enjoy!

Best Prime Day Baby Deals: Wipes, Monitors, Formula, Swings & More

Babies grow quickly, and they need lots of clothes, toys, and things to stimulate their minds. All of that can add up super quickly, but if you’re an Amazon Prime member, you can easily reap the rewards of Prime Day and save big on tons of baby gear so that your little one can keep healthy and happy, and you don’t have to tear your hair out when you see your empty wallet.

Follow along with us all day as we bring your the best deals on everything baby-related as they go live.

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All Baby-related Deals

Prime Day has brought a ton of price drops to baby-related gear, and the Thrifter team has gone through each one to make sure that each one listed below is actually a good deal.

Graco Pack n Play Playard

$33.24


$49.48


Save $16

From a place to play to somewhere to sleep, playards are essential to just about every new parent.

Graco Baby Swing

$51.02


$99.99


Save $49

This thing is a life saver, take it from the parent of a 5-month old who would only nap in this.

Graco Baby Products Prime Day Deal

From strollers to car seats to feeding essentials, these deals are great if you have a little one (or a little bun).

These Graco baby products are discounted by 30% or more

Little prices for little ones.

Amazon is offering a selection of Graco baby items for at least 30% off. There’s a ton of variety going on in this sale, so it’s perfect if you’re a parent, expecting, or going to a baby shower any time soon. This Prime Day deal is only valid for Amazon Prime members, so grab a free 30-day trial if you are in need.

For example, the Graco Pack ‘n Play in Carnival is down to only $33.24. This parenting essential has stellar customer reviews and usually sells for around $45.

Check out the entire sale here.

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Nest Hello vs. Ring Pro: Say hello to the new best connected doorbell

Nest Hello, left, and Ring Pro.

And just like that, I have a new favorite video doorbell.

Ring has made quite the name for itself the past couple years thanks to its stable of video doorbells, DIY security cameras — and I’d say some damned good marketing. So good, in fact, that Amazon reportedly scooped up the company for something like $1 billion.

But Nest Hello is here. It’s the first doorbell from the company that brought you the world’s sexiest smart thermostat, with all the back-end power that a Google-owned organization can possibly throw at it.

The result? I now have a new favorite doorbell.

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Tale of the tape

Why Nest Hello wins

Installation is a wash. Nest Hello and Ring Pro install with nearly identical processes. You’ll need a low-voltage doorbell system already in place — because how else would you get power to the thing, right? And if you’re handy and basic home improvement wiring stuff, you can get either doorbell up and running in about 20 minutes or so. (Maybe a tad longer — I’ve installed a half-dozen of these things at this point and have gotten pretty quick about it.)

In terms of pure looks, Nest wins out. Both doorbells are the only ones I haven’t looked at with a sense of disgust — seriously, there are some bad video doorbells out there — but Nest is just a sexier piece of hardware, hands down.

But it’s in the operation where things really stand out.

Most important, it’s the camera. Nest Hello has some HDR processing, and it’s readily apparent. My covered front porch tends to be backlit a lot, and Nest Hello handles that much better than Ring Pro.

Then there are the notifications. Ring is pretty aggressive with them, though it does have an excellent (new) snooze functionality. But Nest Hello wins out with facial recognition. It sees a face, you give it a name, and then you get smart notifications, telling you who’s at the door.

Ring Pro is pretty darn good. Nest Hello is better.

Ring has optional chimes, so you can hear notifications throughout a home. Nest Hello can use any of the three Google Home speakers. That means a $29 Google Home Mini can do that much more. And if someone the doorbell recognizes rings the bell, it’ll announce them by name. Which is ridiculously cool.

Then there’s the connection. I don’t know if it’s the difference between Ring Pro being an 802.11n device and Nest Hello being 802.11ac-compatible, or if it’s some other server magic from a Google-owned company, but Nest Hello hasn’t suffered from anywhere near the lag or outright disconnections that Ring Pro has.

Ring wins out in terms of subscription service, at least as far as price is concerned. Just $3 a month (or $30 a year) stores recorded events (motion, rings, and live viewing) for 60 days. Nest Aware starts $5 a month (or $50 a year) and gives you five days of recording. That’s five days of continuous recording, though. Not just events.

The bottom line

I’ve used every doorbell Ring has produced. At the time of this writing, I’ve had Nest Hello for a week. And while I still say ecosystem wins out — if you have a bunch of Ring equipment already, stay with a Ring doorbell — Nest Hello wins the head to head competition.

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Best Amazon Prime Day Deals

Samsung SmartThings Home Monitoring Kit

$99.99


$199.99


Save $100

This kit comes with the essential SmartThings Hub, along with two Multipurpose sensors, a motion sensor and an outlet at its lowest price ever.

Harry Potter 8-film Collection 4K UHD

$79.99


$155.74


Save $76

Prepare for Fantastic Beasts 2 with over $50 off this Harry Potter set which comprises the original eight films of the series.

Asus FX503VD 15.6-inch powerful gaming laptop

$729.00


$925.00


Save $196

We’ve never seen this laptop drop this low even during last year’s Black Friday.

LifeStraw Personal Water Filter

$9.99


$16.89


Save $7

This product can filter 4,000 liters with proper use and maintenance, with the ability to remove 99.999999% of waterborne bacteria.

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