Best Buy's 48-Hour Flash Sale has a large selection of TVs, gaming devices and laptops marked down. Get the holiday season started with a jump start on savings during Best Buy's 2024 48-Hour Flash Sale, which begins today and runs through Oct. 9. The sale features top deals on TVs, gaming devices, laptops, monitors and more. Not only are these items often the most wanted gift on a wish list, but they're also huge in helping people host and celebrate throughout the season. This HP is a workhorse laptop and its 200 off. Hewlett Packard's 15.6-inch touch-screen laptop with Intel Core i3 and 8 gigabytes of memory can handle everyday tasks smoothly and efficiently.

Given everyone's sustained interest in playing games on their phones, companies are eager to offer an experience that works better than just jabbing your fingers on a touchscreen. Razer, the maker of unapologetically robust and garish gaming devices, has a new offering that does just that. The new Razer Kishi Ultra is a souped up controller that adds pro-level thumbsticks, buttons, and triggers to just about any mobile device. It's the latest in Razer's Kishi lineup of portable gaming devices, which launched in 2020. The two handles pull apart, allowing you to slide your phone in between them.

There's nothing I love more than curling up on the couch with a handheld gaming device. Whether I'm playing an old classic like The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap or a relaxing farming sim like Stardew Valley, it's one of my favorite ways to unwind at the end of the day. Now you can do it for a lot cheaper than before. Best Buy is currently selling the Asus ROG Ally for 399.99, which is 100 off of the new 499.99 and 200 off the original 599 price. In our review of the pricier model, we were impressed with the gaming performance as well as the beautiful 120Hz display.

Valve's Steam Deck is a great way to get PC games out of your office and on to your couch, back patio, or anywhere. As we said in our review, it's worth having around even if you just play it a few times a month for a couple hours at a time. But I wound up using mine a little differently: I play the Steam Deck several times a day for just a few minutes per session. And it's almost the only reason I play video games at all anymore. I'm no less interested in games than I used to be, but since becoming a father, I've found I have a lot less time.

Every trip around the sun, we prod, poke, and test hundreds of products here at WIRED. Most of them are just fine. Not boring--few things are truly boring these days--though also not really exciting. But every so often, we get a product in our hands and it sets off that spark of joy, that rush of excitement that makes us want to tell you about it, explain why we love it, argue about why it's important. The products below are all the things that lit a fire in our imaginations during 2017.