We're Tracking the Best Black Friday Deals Live 2024

I am currently using this Branch Four Leg Standing Desk and testing it for an upcoming Standing Desks guide, and I like it a lot! Installation was pretty easy (there aren’t that many parts), though be prepared to screw a lot of things in. What makes this standing desk unique is the four-legged design. Most standing desks have two legs shaped like an upside-down T, but this desk looks normal. The four legs telescope, expanding as you raise the desk up and down. It looks so much nicer. The Fully Nolan desk did this too and we liked it a lot, but after Herman Miller bought Fully, it discontinued that model.

So far, this desk has been functioning perfectly, and you can see I have a lot stuffed on it. It features collision detection so it won’t crush anything underneath and includes three height presets. The only thing I will say is if you have as much gear as I do, you may want to look at the larger size. The one in the photo is the smaller 48 X 27-inch model.

And now for the first of what will surely be several posts requiring a disclaimer that my views are my views alone and do not represent the views of the WIRED Reviews team or WIRED editorial.

I really like Nespresso gadgets. I know, I know. Except maybe I'm actually right?

Anyway, our friends at Bon Appetite also like Nespresso products enough to have a guide to the best sales on them and among them is this Aeroccino frother which we use almost every day at my house, a milk frother that will make “fuzzy milk” (my daughter's term) either hot or cold on command. It's 40% off right now.

Last year I bought my gradeschooler daughter a pair of cool Kinco Axeman mittens and lovingly waterproofed them. She wore them twice and, predictably, lost them.

This year I just bought her these Carhartt quilted mittens which she helpfully reviews as “fine.” “Fine” is a grand compliment from a kid who would howl displeasure at any flaw.

If it seems like we're live blogging a lot of grooming deals today that's partly because it's what readers seem to be into right now. Our buying guides to products like beard trimmers and hair straighteners are seeing an influx of traffic. Did everyone just wake up feeling busted? Or are they gifting to people they think maybe looked a little busted at yesterday's gatherings? We don't know. We do know that the the top pick in our guide to the best hair straighteners, the Paul Mitchell Express Ion Style+, is on sale for $40 off right now.

This iron was a favorite of former flatiron reviewer Medea Giordano and remains a favorite of current flatiron reviewer Kat Merck. When two WIRED reviewers of very different tastes and persuasions agree, they're probably right!

Paul Mitchell Pro Tools: Also not entirely spurious!

We're currently re-testing for a big update to our guide to the best beard trimmers but it's worth mentioning this big sale on our defending number one pick, the Braun 9, which is $94 right now and $35 off its normal price. Braun calls this a “professional grade” trimmer and our reviewer deems this claim “not entirely spurious.”

Braun: Not entirely spurious!

I mainly use my TV to watch NFL football, YouTube shows about NFL football, and Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (over and over again). While I love going to games, I’m sort of excited for the Sphere-ification of live viewing, like that Dallas sports bar that went viral a month or two ago. In the meantime, I’ve been loving the massive and massively bright Hisense U9N I recently blurbed for our guide to the best TVs.

I keep my TV on a rolling cart (I am disclosing way too much about myself here) and if I put it in the middle of the living room, this thing is so large that I have to squeeze by it. It’s also so bright you can leave all the windows uncovered and still enjoy perfect visibility. It’s at $2,000 right now which is a full grand off the normal price. Order now and it’ll arrive in time to watch the game next weekend. (It comes on a freight pallet. This TV is, again, insanely large.)

If you're up an ambulatory you're probably headed for the coffeemaker on a cold post-holiday morning.

Is that cup of coffee all you want it to be? No? Well, we have fresh piping hot coffee deals on new grinders and brewers. including the most-talked-about drip coffee maker since Mr. Coffee was buy a boy, the Fellow Aiden + Opus Grinder for $476 ($84 off) and an all-in-one espresso maker our team loves, the Breville Barista Express for $550 ($200 off).

I first picked up an ultrawide monitor almost a decade ago, and I haven't gone back since. I love the extra screen real estate they give me while gaming, splitting it vertically for productivity, or catching the occasional 21:9 movie with no letterboxing. The Alienware AW3432DW feels like the culmination of the genre, packing basically every high-end gaming feature into a 34-inch wide, 3,440x1,440 display. Our reviewer agrees and gave it a 9/10.

A quantum dot OLED panel, 240 HZ refresh rate, and G-Sync Ultimate are all just about the best you can hope for in a screen, especially at this size and resolution. This one is at the top of my wish list, and I hope Santa brings it early.

Photograph: Pete Cottell

I like to start my Black Friday price tracking shift with like three cans of Starbucks espresso and milk then power through with a queasy stomach while looking for deals on Celcius, which we at WIRED believe to be the best energy drink and in fact such a great energy drink that it may one day soon number among the 101 best products in the entire world.

There are no sales on Celcius yet so might I interest you in some instant regret in the form of Ghost?

Reviewer Pete Cottell described it thusly:

Have you ever thrown up all night after eating too many vodka-soaked Skittles you snuck into a bar because you’re a broke college kid? This is like that, only instead of consuming it from a plastic bag hidden in a cargo short pocket, it comes from a can that looks a lot like the disposable polyester shirts worn in the movie Idiocracy.

Mmm mmmm.

Our you could just buy a flat of Celcius at regular Amazon price of $2 a can. The choice is yours.

Deluxe editions of video games often include extra junk, and most of the time I’m just not that interested. While I can see the appeal of a map or poster, that stuff is largely headed for the recycle bin or a donation box if it enters my home. In the case of the Balatro special edition, I’m thinking of paying the $20 just for the real Balatro cards that are included. Like many of you, the game has absolutely taken over first my PC, then my Steam Deck, and now my phone, and I love the idea of a real Hack or Supernova overlooking my desk as I play.

Fitness tracker rings are not new but the Oura Ring has surged in popularity this year—I now seemingly see them on about a quarter of the people I talk to via Zoom. Oura just dropped the 4th generation of their ring (we gave it a 9/10 review) which means the 3rd is getting a discount. Many color and size combos are down to $250 this Black Friday.

We've seen a lot of interest in laptop sales this Black Friday and we're happy to see a deal for $250 off the top MacBook from our guide to the best laptops. That's a savings of 20 percent and it includes all the colors so you can get black or gold instead of boring ol' silver.

We don't talk a lot about Beats headphones here at WIRED but the Solo 4 got a very favorable 7/10 Review from Ryan Waniata earlier this year in which he discussed the fact that we don't talk about them much.

“I was admittedly dismissive of the Solo 4 for their lack of firepower at first, but over multiple days of testing, the sound kept calling me back. Their warm, clean, and buttery performance stems from a redesigned acoustic architecture that proves Apple’s sonic influence on the Beats brand runs deep.”

Right now they're 50 percent off, and just $100. That's a big, big savings compared to the AirPods Max for a pair of over-the-ear headphones also made by Apple. If you just want to listen to some tuns and like a nice warm sound these could be a great buy.

If you’re going to pick up a PSVR2 headset, you might as well get Horizon: Call of the Mountain, its biggest exclusive title, along with it. The headset is technically impressive, with higher than average 4K resolution, 110-degree field of view, and HDR visuals, but it requires a PlayStation 5, or a separately sold adapter to work with your PC. If that’s not a barrier for you, this is by far the cheapest the headset has been, and brings it much more in line with its competitors price-wise.

Our reviewers generally like the AirPods Pro much better than regular AirPods and this Black Friday has brought the best price on them we've ever seen.

However, I feel that the Pros are large and fit weird so you'll find me on regular ol' AirPods anytime I'm not in my Maxes. The AirPods 4 are slightly discounted right now, $120 at Amazon. Save yourself $30 and get that classic AirPods fit and feel from the spin menu era (while giving up many valuable tech features).

One of the most popular topics every Black Friday is where to nab a deal on the Nintendo Switch—the console is certainly getting up their in years but this trend will likely continue until there's a newer Nintendo.

The best Nintendo Switch deal I'm seeing for Black Friday 2024 comes, somewhat unexpectedly, from Target where they have the Mario Kart Deluxe 8 bundle for $225. Considering the game is still priced at about $60 and you probably want the game this is like getting the console for $175.

Finally, it's here. The biggest shopping day of the year, Black Friday, has begun. Sure, there was a full month of deals dripping out but as I gaze out upon the coating of pure, fresh, light Ohio snow from my childhood bedroom I can't help but feel there's just something special about the actual Black Friday beyond the sale tags and slash-through prices.

The story I heard as a kid was that Black Friday was named as such because it's the day that retail operations finally made it out of the red on their annual budget. There are other stories, of course. None of that matters right now. All that matters is the deals, which I'll be tracking live for the next few hours and which folks from the WIRED Reviews team will be bringing you throughout the day.