Month: November 2024

Once upon a time, Black Friday — the day after Thanksgiving and the traditional apex of sales events — meant lining up in front of your favorite store along with thousands of other would-be customers, waiting for the stampede to begin. How old-fashioned! These days, many of us take the easy way out by shopping those sales from our couches. And Amazon, as might be expected, saves its best deals for members of its Prime program.

This year, Amazon’s Black Friday sale takes place on Friday, November 29th. Cyber Monday, when the deals concentrate on tech devices, will be Monday, December 2nd. If you’re interested in the goodies being offered but haven’t signed up for Amazon Prime, don’t worry — Amazon makes it very easy.

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The addition of a 4.3-inch color TFT screen makes the new Wyze Scale Ultra one of the brand’s most expensive smart scales to date, but at $43.99, it’s still considerably cheaper than offerings from companies like Withings. It’s available from Wyze directly or from Amazon in white or black.

The Wyze Scale Ultra says it can track 13 different health metrics, including your heart rate, your metabolic age (a comparison of how your body burns calories at rest to others your age), and measurements of fat, muscle, and water.

Previous versions of Wyze’s smart scales featured simple segmented LED displays to display basic information like weight, BMI, and muscle mass, leaving more detailed breakdowns of your health metrics for an accompanying…

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