5 Deals You Need to Know Today: Hot Coffee is Priceless. No, Wait, It's $11
"Please, Mr. Coffee was my father — call me Derek," this mug warmer seems to say. And Amazon has Derek at a $7 price low. Check out this offer and more in our roundup of the five best deals we found over the last 24 hours.
Top Small Appliance Deal
Mr. Coffee Mug Warmer
$10.80Probably the funniest thing to do is tell someone this is a Qi charger. I'm not saying you should. Just saying that objectively, getting someone to very slightly melt their iPhone case on this coffee warmer is too great an idea to ignore. You might have to obscure the Mr. Coffee logos with a black sharpie or something — I trust you to figure it out, even though, legally speaking, I'm not saying you should do this. It's a coffee warmer, you should use it to warm coffee.
I'm just saying.
Top Apparel Deal
adidas at eBay
Up to 65% off + extra 50% offCoupon code "LASTCHANCE50" gets you this discount. It probably won't be your last chance to buy clothes and shoes, but you never know. World's a crazy place, you just never know. Someone somewhere was the last shopper to buy a toga right before they faded from fashion for good — they didn't know. You could be that person but for track jackets. But I bet that doomed toga-wearer didn't get an extra 50% off. You're so much smarter than them.
Top PC Peripheral Deal
8BitDo Retro N Edition Mechanical Keyboard w/ Joystick
$70Probably the funniest thing to do is remove the actual A and B keys from this keyboard, and only ever type those letters by smashing the two big ol' A and B buttons with terrifying gusto. You could also make them work as macro keys, so instead of laboriously typing your email address and go-to password you use on 80% of sites (we all do it, admit it) manually every time, you can just smash those two buttons. Or just figure out a way to make them play a big hooting noise when you smash them. The possibilities are endless, so long as you're happily smashing two big buttons.
Top Kitchen Deal
Kitchen Odds & Ends at Woot
Up to 60% offThe best item in this sale? This 4-piece utensil set, which looks for all the world like an early 20th century schoolteacher's starter's pack for corporal punishment. Even better, each one of those four utensils is called a "spurtle", which would obviously mean that the hypothetical evil schoolteacher could say something like "This spurtle's gonna hurtle" before they lay into a schoolchild's knuckles, in a kind of pre-Schwarzenegger "stick around" action movie quip.
"Spurtle" also sounds like a Pokemon whose power is gross excretions.
Top Toy Deal
Best Choice Products Electric Railway Train Set
$10In this world of predatory iPad apps and YouTube channels that morph Peppa Pig into a slyly subversive anarchist, you might think a train set seems quaint, even antiquated by comparison. But how about this: me, locomoting all over the place, because trains are great. Can an iPad app go around in a circle, or a slightly squashed circle, a shape we'll call "obovate"? No, but this train set can. The decals on the train tell a fun story: "Continental Express" on the cab gets things off on a strong footing, before "Limited Express" on the coal car dials back the ambition a little. And then "Super Very Luxury Train" on the open goods wagon, which seems sarcastic. Good.