5 Deals You Need to Know Today: A Slightly Shrunken Bag at a Majorly Shrunken Price
Why is it named Berkeley? We may never know, so focused are we on this field bag's small size and smaller price. Check out this offer and more in our roundup of the five best deals we found over the last 24 hours.
Top Backpack Deal
The North Face Berkeley Field Bag
$30.99Slightly undersized anything is always a good time. It just looks moderately silly — not outrageous, but also not normal. Just enough to make you wonder if something shrunk in the wash, or maybe that person's unusually large. So this backpack will provide at least fourteen seconds of amusement just based on that, even before you get into the actual backpackiness of it all.
Things to do while Amazon Web Services are down #1: Sing that song from The LEGO Movie, but with a hesitant twist so it comes out "Everything is AWS! Um…"
Top Laptop Deal
Lenovo IdeaPad 1i 13th-Gen. i5 15.6" Touch Laptop
$320This daily deal laptop appears to come fully featured — decent processor, decent RAM, decent SSD, decent display… so where are they finding the savings, you may wonder. And for that, we must turn to this image of the laptop's keyboard. No dedicated Copilot key, which is a plus, but look at those arrow keys. Banished from their rightful place, occupying about a sixth of the width of the keyboard, and squished underneath the Left Shift key. The left and right keys emerge mostly unscathed, but up and down have not fared well. Mere shadows of their former selves. At least $4 worth of the money you save here will be repaid in sweat equity working up the muscle memory to hit the correct arrow key without consciously thinking about it.
Things to do while Amazon Web Services are down #2: Invent a new kind of liquid cheese.
Top Computer Accessory Deal
Belkin Docking Stations and Hubs at Woot
Up to 74% offDoc Thunderbolt sounds like he should have been Lightning McQueen's crazy mentor in the Cars movies, voiced by Christopher Lloyd to make up for what he inflicted upon the animated movie world in erroneous colleague N. Gosker's favorite movie of all time, Food Fight. A Thunderbolt dock, on the other hand, is just a useful way to connect some stuff to your computer. The latter is undoubtedly more useful on a day-to-day basis, so hooray that they're what's discounted at Woot (an Amazon company, lest we forget), but a shame that Lloyd remains yet unable to pay off that karmic debt.
Things to do while Amazon Web Services are down #3: Watch the full Food Fight movie on Youtube, to remind you that the internet isn't that great even when it's working.
Top Toy Deal
FAO Schwarz Big Cab Auto Hauler
$9.99I looked at this toy truck, and saw one of the Japanese capsule hotels for cars, and now you can't unsee it. They say it's for "realistic play", but you tell me how realistic it is for the cars to somehow park themselves on the middle row. Do they just hover in there? They also say the educational focus is "fine motor skills", and I can indeed guarantee that it would take fine motor skills to perfectly parallel park a car in a second-story cubby that's nigh impossible to access.
Things to do while Amazon Web Services are down #4: Gaze deep into the dark heart of boredom itself, its shadowy recesses echoing with the thoughtless emptiness of your own attention span.
Top Multitool Deal
21-in-1 Pocket Knife Multitool
$15Technically, a gimmick only needs to have two tools to qualify as a multitool. A spork is a multitool. A pencil with an eraser on the end is a multitool. Clawhammer? Multitool. So having 21 tools is basically just showing off. And while I'm not going to suggest that the tool's "scraper blade" and a "sharp knife" are exactly the same thing, I will suggest that the sentence construction of "Ideal for campers, hikers, DIYers, and makes a special gift for birthdays, Christmas, and Father's Day for men, women, and teenage boys" from the marketing bits could use some work. I don't often get women and teenage boys gifts for Father's Day.
Things to do while Amazon Web Services are down #5: Realise the secret to reversing climate change, and listen: it's actually incredibly simple, and I can't believe no one's thought of it before, all we need to do is t—oh wait, AWS is back, never mind.
