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Early Black Friday Deals You CAN’T Afford to Miss

By DT Staff Published November 21, 2025

AR glasses deal — Amazon

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Black Friday is less than a week away — but some of the year’s best smart-tech savings have already landed. Skip the lines, avoid the chaos, and start your holiday shopping early with these top picks that are on sale right now.

Rokid AR Spatial Glasses (Max2)

Experience immersive visuals with a triple-screen Micro-OLED display, 120 Hz refresh rate, 600 nits brightness, and multi-tasking features built for work and play.

Oura Ring (Gen 3)

A sleek and premium wearable that tracks sleep, recovery, stress, and daily activity — now at one of the best prices we’ve seen ahead of Black Friday.

Samsung Galaxy Watch (Titanium Edition)

Premium materials, advanced coaching features, and comprehensive health tracking make this one of the standout smartwatches for Android users.

Happrun Smart Projector

This is a smart projector designed for home cinema or outdoor use, with built-in Google TV, WiFi + Bluetooth connectivity, auto-focus and keystone correction, and Dolby audio support.

Black Friday may not have officially started, but these deals already are. Lock in savings now before prices climb and inventory drops.

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Emerging Tech

Anti-surveillance clothing is getting cheaper, but don’t expect an invisibility cloak

Affordable shirts now claim to confuse facial recognition, although their protection depends heavily on the camera and software watching you

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Anti-surveillance clothing is starting to look less like an art-school experiment and more like something you could actually wear outside. Shirts designed to confuse facial recognition systems now cost about as much as ordinary streetwear, although buying one won’t make you disappear.

The Guardian reports that designers are using face-like prints, unusual cuts and infrared lights to interfere with computer vision. These techniques target specific weaknesses, so their success depends on what happens to be watching you.

Emerging Tech

This spinning drone hides in plain sight using a visual illusion

This drone doesn't turn invisible. It tricks your brain into thinking it has.

Phantom Twist

For decades, engineers have chased the dream of an invisible drone. The usual approaches have involved transparent materials, camouflage coatings, or complex optical systems that bend light around an object. Researchers at Northwestern University decided to take a completely different route. Instead of hiding the drone itself, they chose to fool the human eye.

The result is Phantom Twist, an experimental drone that spins so rapidly it almost disappears into the background. It's not technically invisible, but to anyone watching, it looks more like a faint blur than a flying machine.

Emerging Tech

This smart knitted fabric can flip switches, count your steps, and even change shape

Grandma's knitting just entered its Iron Man era

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For most of us, knitting brings to mind sweaters, scarves, and perhaps an ambitious grandmother determined to make winter more fashionable. Researchers at Harvard University, however, have a far more futuristic vision. They've transformed ordinary knitted fabric into a programmable material capable of changing shape, acting as an electrical switch, sensing movement, and potentially forming the foundation of tomorrow's wearable technology.

The research, published in Advanced Functional Materials by scientists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), demonstrates how machine-knitted textiles can "snap" between multiple stable shapes without relying on motors or rigid mechanical parts.