Save on a Roomba ahead of the Black Friday shopping rush. If you make a purchase by clicking one of our links, we may earn a small share of the revenue. However, our picks and opinions are independent from USA Today's newsroom and any business incentives. The holidays are right around the corner, which means we'll all have to attend to our hosting duties for Friendsgivings, holiday parties, and fancy dinners. If you want your home looking spiffy for when the guests arrive, there's no better time to invest in a robot vacuum to keep your floors clean of dirt, pet hair, and dust bunnies.

The less busywork you have in your life, the better your life is, and robotic Roombas can cross vacuuming off your list for you. Today, you can grab one of your own at its lowest price ever. The iRobot Roomba 690 is $248 today on Amazon, a steep discount from its list price of $375. This awesome robot vacuum combines the cleaning power of Roomba with modern smarts. Once connected to Wi-Fi, the Roomba 690 becomes compatible with Amazon's Alexa for voice control.

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It's Cyber Monday, but many of the deals you're seeing today started on Black Friday. We've been adding and removing items from our categorized lists all weekend, and you should really check them out if you want to see all of the best tech deals today. We'll keep updating them till the bitter end. But below we wanted to highlight a few of the deals that are really impressing us. Whether you're treating yourself, or hunting for gifts, we think these devices will make anyone happy, and they're all on deep discount through the end of the day.

And today, you can get one for the cheapest it's ever been: The iRobot Roomba 690 is down to $249 at AmazonRemove non-product link, down from a list price of $375. This Roomba 690 smart robot vacuum connects to Wi-Fi, so you'll be able to create schedules or actively ask it to clean from anywhere via its mobile app. It's also compatible with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, so you can tell it to start or stop cleaning using just your voice. Dirt Detect technology helps the Roomba recognize areas which need a little extra attention, while a 3-stage cleaning system ensures a thorough clean. It also automatically recharges itself so it will always be ready to go.

If you make a purchase by clicking one of our links, we may earn a small share of the revenue. However, our picks and opinions are independent from USA Today's newsroom and any business incentives. Though high-end robotic cleaners can cost close to $1,000, our tests show that a host of less-expensive--and sometimes lesser-known--models will clean your house nearly as well as pricier robot vacs. No robot vacuum will clean as well as a traditional canister or upright, but they can keep floors looking fresh between cleanings without the cost of something like the Dyson 360 Eye. To find the best that won't break the bank, we rounded up the most popular robot vacuums that retail for less than $400 and spent a few weeks putting them through our robot vacuum obstacle course.

Designing a budget robot vacuum is an unenviable task. Most robot vacuums already operate within a very limited set of engineering constraints. They all have to be about the same size and make below a certain level of noise. The batteries have to operate for a certain length of time. You can buy iRobot's entry-level vacuum for $299, and you can find Neato's for a mere $200. With the iLife V8s, the most obvious addition is a mopping function.

To be honest, the Fourth of July is not the first, or even the fifth or sixth, retail holiday on our calendars. And a lot of people--both customers and retailers--are saving up their big guns for Amazon Prime Day, our real national summer shopping holiday. Nevertheless, it's still possible to save a couple bucks, especially if you're shopping for travel and outdoor gear for your summer vacaciones. In our opinion, the best deal of all is a year's subscription to WIRED for $5, which still comes with a free Yubikey. But we've rounded up a few others for you to look at on National Fireworks Day.

If you're in the mood for shopping, this is a great, great week. Especially if you're awaiting a juicy tax refund, why not treat yourself to something you probably need? Nintendo's Labo kits come out this Friday and are currently available for pre-order. You can learn more about the kits, which we love, and how to order them, here Our friends at TechBargains have also found our favorite robot vacuum, the iRobot Roomba 690, on sale. The Roomba 690 lets you enjoy iRobot's top-of-the-line navigational engineering at an accessible price point.

An independent panel of judges selected the Roomba 690 from among several Smart Home Award entries, which also had to be entered into one of the 11 core Housewares Design Awards categories. Through Wi-Fi connectivity and the iRobot home app, the Roomba 690 offers remote cleaning and scheduling for up to seven times per week, direct access to customer support, customized cleaning settings and compatibility with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant devices for easy-to-use voice commands. The app also sends push notifications to alert users to the status of each cleaning mission. The Roomba 690 uses a patented three-stage cleaning system with dual multi-surface brushes, an edge-sweeping brush, and a powerful vacuum to efficiently clean carpets, rugs and hard floors, according to the company.