Amazon Prime Day 2024 has brought a bunch of solid tech deals on some of our favorite gadgets. The annual shopping event is a great time for Prime members to put that subscription to work and actually get some good deals on gadgets including tablets, earbuds, robot vacuum cleaners and more. This year has been, for lack of a better word, typical. Most of the best Prime Day deals have been exclusive to Prime members, with a few decent stragglers that anyone can buy. Not every Prime Day deal is worth your time or money, though, so we've scoured Amazon's site to find the best of the best when it comes to tech deals.

While plenty of gadgets cross our desks, we at Engadget also end up buying a lot of things for ourselves throughout the year. In 2021, some of us invested in smart home devices and others (re)discovered passions for things like e-books and vinyl, but there are plenty of things we bought and loved that didn't make it onto the site. Here, our staffers look back on the year that was by gushing about their favorite items they bought this year. After a few years of waffling, I finally pulled the trigger in 2021 and bought a Dyson stick vacuum. You could say I fell for the hype, but honestly it's been one of my favorite purchases of the year and arguably the most useful. Until now, we had been relying on a few-years-old Roomba (lovingly named Dale) to clean our two-bedroom apartment -- Dale did a good job, but the Dyson is even better.

We purchased a wide assortment of things, including an Aerogarden, a 4K monitor, an air purifier and Nintendo's Ring Fit Adventure. But the ones that proved the most memorable sometimes went unmentioned on our site. Here, a few of our staffers look back on at least one item that made it to their "best of 2020" list that deserve a shout-out before the year is over. I simply don't have space in my apartment for a proper home office. So ever since March my kitchen table has also served as a writing desk.

USA TODAY's Jefferson Graham reviews the 2018 year in tech, which includes the most popular apps, binge-worthy TV shows and much more USA TODAY We didn't see every product released -- but we did see, touch and feel a lot of them. Several of the ones mentioned here I went out and bought after I reviewed them -- others I lusted after. Let's work our way from 10 to 1. Unlike smartphones, which hit ridiculous prices in 2018, many topping $1,000, you've got to love what LaCie is selling you for a portable, rugged hard drive. I picked up a 4 terabyte external drive for $150. Two years ago, these drives were 1 TB at best for the same price, and now I've got four times as much room.