Tech Tuesday: Black Friday deals, car speakers and Biggie Smalls VR - KOIN.com

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Tech adept Greg Nibler joined AM Extra to speech astir Black Friday and Cyber Monday tech deals, caller car speakers from LG and a Metaverse performance featuring a precocious rapper.

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday approaching, Nibler gave 3 tips to people the champion tech deals.

“Number one, I would say, if you’re going into this to find a tv oregon laptop, bash immoderate probe up of clip to find retired what it is you want, what you’d beryllium consenting to sacrifice erstwhile it comes to a deal, due to the fact that there’s going to beryllium a batch of variations retired there,” Nibler said.

Next, Nibler recommends preparing your online cart up of time.

“Take a look astatine the sites you mightiness spell to, possibly it’s Best Buy, Amazon, Target,” Nibler explained. “Set up an relationship up of time, that mode you tin person a cart acceptable to go. You tin adjacent load the merchandise into your cart, you don’t person to bargain it close then. But that mode it’s determination and you tin rapidly spell and cheque it out.”

Finally, Nibler advises Black Friday shoppers to comparison prices connected antithetic sites.

“Google Shopping volition really beryllium a bully mode to spot prices for a clump of antithetic retailers each astatine 1 time, it gives you a beauteous bully scope connected there. Other ones you tin adhd onto your browser are Camel Camel Camel oregon Honey, which volition springiness you historically what the prices are for immoderate of these products,” Nibler explained.

Ahead of Black Friday, Nibler noted the debut of LG’s Thin Actuator Sound Solution car speakers.

“Instead of being a large talker that goes into your doorway panel,” Nibler said. “They created thing that is tiny that they judge tin regenerate it,” Nibler said.

He added due to the fact that of the size of the speakers, they tin acceptable anyplace successful the car noting, “this is fundamentally a talker the size of a passport, they said it’s arsenic heavy arsenic 2 coins.”

“They accidental it tin make this 3-D dependable wrong a car,” Nibler said. According to Nibler, LG said it volition beryllium rolling retired the speakers into cars successful 2023.

Nibler besides noted different innovation successful the tech satellite arsenic VR headsets determination into the performance realm with a hyper-realistic avatar.

Nibler explained the caller VR acquisition takes spot successful a satellite called “Brook” which is “basically a 1990s mentation of Brooklyn and to spell on with that, connected the 25th day of his passing away, they’re going to person a performance featuring an avatar of Biggie Smalls.”

Nibler explained the communicative takes the VR idiosyncratic done a communicative successful which they tin thrust successful a car with Biggie Smalls and spot him successful performance with different 90s artists similar Diddy.

Nibler said the VR acquisition launches connected Dec. 16.