15 Best Deals: Home, Health, and the Outdoors
Take a deep breath, get up, and start moving with discounts on air purifiers, fitness trackers, and electric mowers….
Ready for summer? It’s right around the corner—June 21 is the summer solstice. For our final weekend deals post of spring, we’re highlighting deals that’ll keep you and your home fresh. From breathing clean air to tracking your workouts, we’ve got WIRED-tested gear that’ll keep the breezy, refreshing vibes of spring alive as you descend into the depths of sweltering summer.
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Health and Home Deals
This is the coffee grinder I use every morning to power my brain and get the sweet caffeine flowing into my blood. As you’ll see in our Best Coffee Grinders guide, the Skerton Pro is beloved by us WIRED coffee gurus for its conical burr grinder and adjustable grind (for everything from espresso to French press). Don’t worry about the glass base. It’s unreasonably thick and has survived several bleary-eyed drops onto my wood floor without drama.
This is the Airmega for slightly smaller rooms than the Airmega 400 we love and recommend in our Best Air Purifiers guide. It’ll still cover large rooms up to 1,256 square feet, and its automatic operation means it’ll ramp up the power when it detects the air is particularly dirty. This is the “smart” version that syncs to your smartphone via an app, so that you can adjust the power settings and check your room’s air quality remotely.
Another one of our favorite air purifiers, the Wynd Plus is ideal for bringing with you when you’re away from home. It doesn’t have a HEPA filter and won’t clean, say, a large living room. But put it on a hotel room nightstand or in the cup holder of a car and it’ll purify the air in a 3-foot span. It comes with its own air quality monitor, and it runs on battery.
For its wide range of available attachments, we lauded the HyperAir in our Best Hair Dryers guide. You could say it blew us away with the included air concentrator and brush attachments. Rather than try to wield a hairbrush in one hand and a dryer in the other, our reviewers found it convenient to simply use both at the same time with the brush attachment.
Spills happen, and sometimes the spills are too enormous or nasty to wipe up with paper towels. For garages, decks, and patios, the best answer is a wet/dry vacuum that can suck up not only normal dust and particles but also pools and puddles. I’ve used this Rigid shop vac in the garage for years, and I haven’t managed to kill it yet. It’s powerful, comes with useful attachments, and the caster wheels make it easy to tug around and maneuver.
The Q5+ (9/10, WIRED Recommends) is the best overall robot vacuum out of all those we’ve tested—and man, have we tested a lot. The bin could be bigger, and we’d like to see more powerful suction, but it nails all the basics for a mid-level price. Unlike a lot of cheaper robot vacs, the Q5+ can distinguish among various types of flooring and can map multiple rooms and floors. The intuitive app is a strong point and lets you set up schedules and control the Roborock remotely.
Outdoor and Fitness Deals
We reviewed the pricier Fenix 7S Sapphire Solar (8/10, WIRED Recommends) and liked its quick, accurate satellite connection and wide range of programmable sports modes. The non-sapphire model has all those same attributes at a lower price, especially on sale.
The Fitbit Charge 5 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is our favorite fitness tracker for most people. It’s already affordable—even more so with this sale—and is attractive, accessible, and easy to use. There are tons of sensors to track everything from atrial fibrillation and heart rate to your sleep.
Don’t want to spend as much? The Inspire 3 will do the job for even less money. It’s simple to use, with a pedometer and the ability to track SpO2. Wear it to bed and it’ll track your sleep too.
We weren’t thrilled with the shorter warranty, weaker battery life, and high price of the Gen3 Oura Ring (6/10, WIRED Review), but hey, at least one of those is addressed now that it’s on sale. We were impressed by the original Oura Ring (8/10, WIRED Recommends), and the Gen3 does carry over its comfortable, easy-to-wear nature and industry-leading period and sleep tracking, while also adding new features, such as guided videos and sleep stages.
The Pixel Watch (6/10, WIRED Review) has been getting updates over the past few months, including new features that were missing when it launched. That includes fall detection, SpO2 measurements, high and low heart-rate notifications, and auto-pause for workouts. It’s still one of the best-looking smartwatches out there. Too bad it doesn’t work with iPhones.
Enter code CAMPJUNE23 to see the discount at checkout. Fresh off an enormous Memorial Day sale, most products have reverted back to full price at REI. Bummer. But if you missed out, you can grab $30 off any order that totals $100 or more with the promo code. This one’s only for members, but a lifetime REI membership for $30 is absolutely worth it. Plus, if you sign up for a membership now, REI will mail you a gift card of $30 to offset the purchase cost, but it expires 30 days from its issue date.
Almost synonymous with “action camera,” you’ve seen the GoPro mounted on everything from ski helmets to race car dashboards to drones. It’s still our favorite video camera for capturing intense, adventurous action. The Hero11 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) is the current model, which includes shooting modes like Star Trails and Vehicle Light Trails, and up to 5.3K video resolution at 60 frames per second, or 4K resolution at 120 fps. Its video quality is among the best in class.
This is for the fall 2022 version, but it’s no different from the current year’s model. The two-person DoubleNest—along with the one-person SingleNest—is my favorite casual hammock for hanging around the backyard, park, or campground. The included straps and instructions make rigging it to a tree a simple affair, and it holds up to 400 pounds. There are other colors and prints available on sale too.
Call me a converted skeptic. When electric mowers were novel, I bemoaned the low range and the fact that so many came with power cords that made mowing the lawn frustrating. Electric mowers have gotten quite good, though, and Kobalt’s cordless model impressed me with its power to chew through thick grass for up to 60 minutes on a charge. Plus, it runs so quietly that you won’t need to worry about disturbing your neighbors on a Sunday morning—or damaging your hearing.
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