As you spent today watching the 90th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, making pumpkin pie recipes and learning how to cook a turkey or how to deep fry a turkey safely, watching NFL games between the Minnesota Vikings and Detroit Lions, the Washington Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys, and/or the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Indianapolis Colts as you monitor your Yahoo and ESPN fantasy football leagues or your FanDuel or DraftKings daily fantasy teams, there should be some questions bouncing around in your brain.
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What are 2016's top gadgets? What is the best smartphone? And, most importantly, what are the best door buster Black Friday deals at Best Buy? What are the best Black Friday deals at Walmart? What are the best Black Friday Deals at Amazon? What are the best Black Friday deals at Target?When buying a gift for your friends and family you really want to get them something that will last. You might think that would be hard to do with consumer tech gadgets that update and make themselves obsolete every year, but you'd be wrong!The plastic that many of them are made with might end up being downcycled into a park bench somewhere or could end up in the giant swirling mess of plastic garbage in the Pacific Ocean, where it might stay long after we're all dead. The rare earth minerals that are increasingly needed for our touchscreens will be lost forever, but the holes we made to mine them will stay as a reminder of your gift. And the remnants of copper, lead, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, and zinc might leach from electronics in a junkyard in Hong Kong into the water supply of the nearby population. If you want to make a long-lasting impact, these are the best Black Friday Deals of 2016.
1 MacBook Pro - $1499 - $1,999
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2 Microsoft Surface Pro 4 ($799 at Microsoft, originally $999)
3 Fitbit Alta ($99.95 at Best Buy - regularly $129.95)
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Buy this instead: Look, you can buy a fitness tracker but make sure you or the person you're giving it to is actually going to use it. Maybe do a trial run with the fitness tracker embedded in your phone and see if it's something that's actually going to make a difference in your life. Buy one that's waterproof and has great specs, and then don't buy a new one every single year.
4 - Epson Expression Home XP-434 Wireless Small-in-One Printer ($49.99 at Target—regularly $89.99)
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You can save $40 on this one at Target though.Buy this instead: Print things at your office, or somewhere where there's already a reliable printer. Go paperless on as many things as possible.