Here’s a couple of excellent, techy, exciting, WONDERFUL Black Friday deals for y’all to look out for!
1,
Walmart will have the 16GB Apple iPad Mini + $100 Walmart Gift Card for $299.00.
Apparently they will have stock guaranteed for 1 hour BUT you can’t use the gift card on the mini. Walmart says they will price match but you must have the ad and the store must be open with their sales starting when you try.
Walmart, opens at 6 p.m on Thanksgiving day.
2,
Target will have the iPad Air 16GB w/ WiFi + $100 Target Gift Card for $479.00 for Black Friday.
Target opens at 8 p.m on Thanksgiving day.
It also seems that both online and in-store shoppers get a 20% gift card if they spend at least $75 between Thanksgiving and end of business on Black Friday. The gift card can be used Dec. 1 to Dec. 7.
So, opening store times are like Black Friday 101 right? It seems stores are opening for their Black Friday Sales sooner and sooner these days!
So you guys can be totally on your game, below is a list of stores and their opening hours!
Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28:
Lowe’s online – 4:00 A.M.
Kmart – 6:00 AM
RiteAid – 7:00 AM
Walgreens – 8:00 AM
CVS: 9:00 AM
Michaels – 4:00 PM
Toys R Us – 5:00 PM
Best Buy – 6:00 PM
Sports Authority – 6:00 PM
Walmart – 6:00 PM
Old Navy – 7:00 PM
Bon-Ton – 8:00 PM
Dick’s Sporting Goods – 8:00 PM
JCPenney – 8:00 PM
Kohl’s – 8:00 PM
Macy’s – 8:00 PM
Modell’s Sporting Goods – 8:00 PM
Office Depot – 8:00 PM
OfficeMax – 8:00 PM
Sears – 8:00 PM
Shopko – 8:00 PM
Target – 8:00 PM
Staples – 9:00 PM
AT&T – Midnight
Bath and Body Works – Midnight
Dell – Midnight
Fry’s – Midnight
GameStop – Midnight
Friday, Nov. 29:
A.C. Moore – 5:00 AM
Bass Pro Shops- 5:00 AM
Burlington Coat Factory- 5:00 AM
Cabela’s- 5:00 AM
Fred Meyer- 5:00 AM
Home Depot- 5:00 AM
Lowe’s- 5:00 AM
Bed, Bath and Beyond- 6:00 AM
BigLots- 6:00 AM
Jo-Ann- 6:00 AM
Meijer- 6:00 AM
Menard’s- 6:00 AM
PetSmart- 6:00 AM
Ace Hardware- 7:00 AM
BJ’s Wholesale Club- 7:00 AM
Dollar General- 7:00 AM
Harbor Freight- 7:00 AM
Rite Aid- 7:00 AM
Sam’s Club- 7:00 AM
SteinMart- 7:00 AM
RadioShack- 8:00 AM
REI- 8:00 AM
Costco – 9:00 Am
Some Apple stores are opening at 6:00 AM on Black Friday, however others will be opening at their regular opening times. Click here to see when your local Apple store will be opening.
We think these guys probably already know the store opening times for Black Friday. We hope.
The Galaxy Gear, Samsung’s wearable tech effort has only sold around 50,000 units according to a report from BusinessKorea.
Launched a short time ago in September, the watch has not been received well by critics, or as it turns out, by buyers. It costs $299, it is not standalone, and this is what it looks like:
Samsung were (/are?) impressed with themselves for getting their version of wearable tech in watch form out first. Especially when the perception is that Apple usually play the role of tech innovators. This was their turn to create history with a first, but should they have waited?
The people say …mmmmmmmyeahprobably.
The customer and critical reviews of the Galaxy gear have mentioned that it is too bulky, it doesn’t sync with all of their smart-phones, and the battery life, at one day, is nowhere near good enough.
Apple is among other tech giants said to be working hard on their own version, named in the press the iWatch. A standalone gadget, it is said that a huge priority for the company is in trying to make the battery last at least four days and have a design aesthetic that will make people who don’t wear a watch currently, want to wear the iWatch.
So, kinda sucks for Samsung. But you know what this means, don’t you guys?
This can only be a fantastic thing for us, the consumers. Wearable tech, in this case specifically watches can and will only get better from here.
And if you were one of the 50,000 peeps who bought the Galaxy Gear, kudos to you! If things continue in the same vein, now you’re the proud owner of some rare tech. Rare tech is good for the wallet!
The Twitter IPO happened this morning! Lots and lots of money was made/exchanged/flurried about, and people were happy! Yay!
The bell was rung by Sir Patrick Stewart, Cheryl Fiandaca from the Boston Police department and Vivienne Harr from the charity Make A Stand Lemon-aid (An awesome charity btw, check it out here).
The stocks started selling at $26 a share but soon shot up topping out at $50.09 and closing the day at $44.94, up 73%! Way better than Facebook (although concerning less money) and better than we think some people were expecting.
Twitter is now worth about 25 billion dollars.
That’s a lot of clams, kids.
We imagine the mood at Twitter today was a little like this;
We just received our first iPhone 5S! And it was, drumroll please:
Cracked!
Even though the guy at first was like:
We gave him $$$ CASHMONEY and turned that frown upside down!
Apparently, our lovely 5S customer was using his brand new shiny iPhone 5S in a crowded area, someone came running by and hit him in the shoulder and the shiny 5S went flying ever so prettily before smacking itself onto concrete. And there you have it- a cracked screen.
If you have an unlucky cracked or broken iPhone, or a stinky old used iPhone, go to iPhone Antidoteright now!
We’ll give you CASHMONEY for those unlucky, stinky old iPhones and turn you from grumpy cat into happy, baller cat in one of the easiest, stress free transactions you’ll ever experience!
There are still more products coming our way right from the magical world of the Apple production line! Next year! That’s like only a few tomorrows away!
A couple of days ago Tim Cook confirmed to members of the press, that Apple is definitely planning on introducing new product categories in 2014. Categories baby! That’s like, things we’ve never seen before. Woop.
According to Cook, Apple believes that it can use its skills building software, hardware, and services to create “great products” in categories that Apple does not participate in today. “We’re pretty confident about that,” said Cook.
Woop!
Things to look forward to (probably) include the iWatch, the iTV and a little baby unicorn that makes all your dreams come true.
Do you guys remember a lil’ while back when a video featuring a blocky, stack together futuristic idealistic mobile phone started doing the social media rounds?
This one:
If you haven’t seen it, definitely check it out. There are some really smart ideas in there, formed by some people really thinking about how to make the future of tech better.
The phone in the video above is designed by a group called Phonebloks, and it’s a design prototype; it’s not real, yet. Turns out Motorola has been thinking along the same lines as the guys from Phonebloks, and now they’re working together on a project that is super exciting.
Over the last six months, our MAKEwithMOTO team took Sticky, a truck wrapped entirely in velcro and filled with rooted, hackable Motorola smartphones and high-end 3D printing equipment, across the country for a series of make-a-thons.
On that trip we saw the first signs of a new, open hardware ecosystem made possible by advances in additive manufacturing and access to the powerful computational capabilities of modern smartphones. These included new devices and applications that we could never have imagined from inside our own labs. Open fuels innovation. See some examples here, here, and here.
After the trip, we asked ourselves, how do we bring the benefits of an open hardware ecosystem to 6 billion people? Meet Ara.
Led by Motorola’s Advanced Technology and Projects group, Project Ara is developing a free, open hardware platform for creating highly modular smartphones. We want to do for hardware what the Android platform has done for software: create a vibrant third-party developer ecosystem, lower the barriers to entry, increase the pace of innovation, and substantially compress development timelines.
Our goal is to drive a more thoughtful, expressive, and open relationship between users, developers, and their phones. To give you the power to decide what your phone does, how it looks, where and what it’s made of, how much it costs, and how long you’ll keep it.
Here’s a sneak peek at early designs for Project Ara:
The design for Project Ara consists of what we call an endoskeleton (endo) and modules. The endo is the structural frame that holds all the modules in place. A module can be anything, from a new application processor to a new display or keyboard, an extra battery, a pulse oximeter–or something not yet thought of!
We’ve been working on Project Ara for over a year. Recently, we met Dave Hakkens, the creator of Phonebloks. Turns out we share a common vision: to develop a phone platform that is modular, open, customizable, and made for the entire world.
We’ve done deep technical work. Dave created a community. The power of open requires both. So we will be working on Project Ara in the open, engaging with the Phonebloks community throughout our development process, as well as asking questions to our Project Ara research scouts (volunteers interested in helping us learn about how people make choices).
In a few months, we will also send an invitation to developers to start creating modules for the Ara platform (to spice it up a bit, there might be prizes!). We anticipate an alpha release of the Module Developer’s Kit (MDK) sometime this winter.
So stay tuned. There will be a lot more coming from us in the next few months.
–Paul Eremenko, and the Motorola Advanced Technology and Projects group, Project Ara Team
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November 25, 2013 4:43 pm | 
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