Today’s deal of the day is a fantastic wireless video baby monitor that you can’t find cheaper anywhere on the Web, but it’s also so much more than that.  Sure, the product is ideal for keeping an eye on baby while you play Uno on Facebook in the living room, but that’s by no means all that you can do with it.  After all, this is a video monitor with NIGHT VISION. Think of all the spying hi-jinks you could get into with one of these! 

I’ve always felt that humans got the shaft when it came to seeing in the dark.  Our lame eyes are limited to the visible light spectrum, which more or less disappears when the sun goes down.  Many animals have a tissue layer called the tapetum lucidum in the back of their eyes that reflects light back through the retina, increasing the amount of light available for it to capture.  That’s why their eyes look all reflective in my car headlights, I guess.  Other animals can see parts of the infrared and ultraviolet spectrums, too.  Why didn’t we evolve that way?  Personally, I blame our crippling dependency on fire.

Luckily, humans are pretty great at using tools.  That’s why we’re able to develop technology to improve on our deficiencies, such as seeing babies in the dark.  You know what else is cool?  Our daily deal’s night vision feature displays in green monochrome, the perfect video setting for St. Patrick’s Day!

After consuming a few beverages today, your kids might need a night-vision video monitor to keep an eye on you!

Our deal of the day today is a cordless power drill, and yes, I’m excited.  If you have a piece of wood that you think would absolutely look a lot better with a hole in it, you really can’t do any better than a power drill.  If you’re thrifty like I am (and let’s face it, you are), your eyes have to light up when you see the price on today’s deal.  It’s pretty much impossible to find a band-new drill anywhere for less than $24.99.  

Now, we don’t feature a lot of brand names here on BuyersHQ.com.  That’s because brand names like to charge you for the privilege of having a sticker with their name on it slapped on the side of your gadgets and tools. That doesn’t sit right with us.  When you’re buying power tools, it’s not the brand that’s important—it’s the quality.  On a cordless drill like today’s daily deal, there are two pieces that you need quality construction:  The battery and the chuck.  The chuck is important because the ability to change out and secure bits quickly and smoothly is key to getting top performance out of your drill.  If you know anything about cordless drills, you know that there isn’t a more trusted name than Jacobs when it comes to drill chucks.  The PT135 also comes with a Rechargeable Ni-Cd battery and charger, ensuring you’ll always have enough juice to finish the job.

Order now, and you could be drilling holes through all sorts of stuff in a matter of days!  

In case you were wondering, the absolute worst car in the world for cross-country car trips is the 1997 Dodge Neon.  I can say this with absolute certainty because I tested the theory out about nine years ago.  Driving from Texas to California in that undersized bucket was one of the most unpleasant experiences in my life, and to this day, I still have a serious aversion to road trips. 

What made the ride so memorably awful?  Well, the driver’s seat in the old Dodge Neon was a pretty no-frills affair.  Not a lot of spring action and not a lot of padding.  By hour 14 or so on the road, my butt was so numb that I’m pretty sure it turned blue.  Pins and needles doesn’t begin to describe what I felt when I tried to get up and head inside a truck stop to use the bathroom.  More like “daggers and ice-picks.” The cassette player was also broken, but that’s another story.

That’s why if I’m ever forced to drive for hours and hours on end again, I’m bringing today’s deal of the day along. The RoadPro 12-Volt Heated & Massaging Seat/Back Cushion’s five powerful motors and ergonomic padding will keep the circulation flowing in my hind quarters no matter how long the cruise control has been set.  Not only that, but its gentle heating element will keep me nice and toasty even as I drive through the desert at 4 a.m. during Winter.      

Only next time, I swear to God I’m renting a Cadillac.

At Buyers HQ, we’re committed to the idea that more is better, especially when more is less!   The Memorex MI1003 iPod Speaker System with Remote Control was first featured on our site back in November 2009, our second month in business.  It also happened to be one of our most popular deals of the day ever, helping us to establish ourselves as THE headquarters for bargain seekers online.  When we found a new batch available from our distributors, a wave of nostalgia washed over us.  It only made sense to bring this deal back.

But here’s the kicker—today only, we’re offering the iPod Speaker System at an even lower price than we were able to originally!  The suggested retail price for these babies is $39.99, which, frankly, we find outrageous.  That’s why we sold ‘em for only $18.99 last year.  As a thank-you to our loyal buyers, we’re slashing that price even lower today, to $15.99!

All of  the features that made the Memorex MI1003 such a popular deal before are intact:  It plays any iPod, and it’s got an S-Video output to watch iPod video on your TV as well as an RCA subwoofer output to kick the bass into overdrive.  Enjoy the return of the Memorex mack, and if there’s another Buyers HQ deal you’d like to see again, head on over to our Facebook page and let us know!

I really like USB 2.0 wireless G adapters like today’s deal of the day.  Do you know why?  Because I’m completely awful at putting together computer hardware components!  I remember getting my first wireless router some years ago, and rushing out to buy a wireless card for my desktop PC.  Now, when it comes to installing PC components, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t get any easier than slapping a wireless card inside an HP Pavilion.  That's assuming you're a competent adult, of course.  After fiddling with the thing all afternoon, I ended up paying my neighbor to fix the damage with a 12-pack of Coors.

What makes USB technology so great is that it’s literally foolproof.  You just plug it in. Done!  No removing the CPU case.  No screwdrivers.  No soldering.  Using today’s deal, you can plug the USB 2.0 adapter into any relatively new computer and start surfing the Web wirelessly without even installing any drivers (even though it comes with a driver disc).  That, my friends, is progress.  If your PC is still wired to the wall, you’re pretty much holding us back as a species at this point.  I’d hate to see natural selection weed you out, so do yourself a favor and plunk down $14.99 to join us in the 21st Century.  You’ll like it here:  There’s Dippin’ Dots!

Our deal of the day today is a set of GMRS two-way radios, but come one, nobody calls them that.  They're walkie-talkies, and despite the mild silliness of the name, I happen to think it's dumb to pretend otherwise.  For as long as anyone can remember, cordless, handheld radios have always been called walkie-talkies, and they probably always will be.  But who coined the name?

After a little Internet research, I was surprised to learn that the name walkie-talkie actually predates the familiar handsets associated with it today.  The original devices nicknamed walkie-talkies were large backpack-mounted radios  developed by Motorola for use by the military in 1940.  As the war raged on, the company eventually perfected handheld radios to replace the packsets.  Motorola called these new radios “Handie Talkies,” but that name proved vastly inferior due to its lack of rhyme.  Instead, the old walkie-talkie nickname stuck, even now into the 21st Century. 

Today, the modern military still uses walkie-talkies that can communicate on a variety of bands and modulation schemes and include encryption capabilities.

Today’s 12-Volt Wet/Dry Vac with Car Adapter makes a great deal of the day and all, but does it really represent the most advanced car-cleaning technology available to us?  Don’t get me wrong, my car is going to be a lot less filthy once I plug that sucker into the cigarette lighter and go to town with the “crevice tool,” but handy as this vac is, I think humanity could be doing better.  After all, I don’t vacuum my home anymore; friendly disc-shaped robots handle that for me now.  So why haven’t they produced a Roomba for my car?

Now, regular readers of this blog know that I’m no stranger to taking our electrical engineers and, uh, roboticists to task for what I see as a critical failure to transform our world into a reality resembling “The Jetsons.”  But think about it this way:  We have robot vacuums.  We have car vacuums.  Why, then, do we not have robot car vacuums?  Are robots really too stupid to figure out how to use an upholstery brush?  Please!  Let’s give robots a little credit.  They already wash the outside of our cars at every corner gas station.  I think it’s time we turn ‘em loose on the interior, don’t you?

Thanks to today’s daily deal, you can now have the power of 2 million candles in the palm of your hand for the low, low price of only $23.99.  I think we can all agree that that’s way less than what 2 million candles would cost you, so you’re coming out way ahead on this deal.  Plus, where would you even put two million candles?  It’s not as if any fire marshal in the country is going to allow 2 million lit candles inside any building anywhere.  Outdoors, then?  How do you propose to keep them all lit?  Screw the candles.  I’m getting the cordless rechargeable spotlight instead!

I have to say, I’m having a great time thinking of all the fun things I’m going to do with a two-million-candle power spotlight once it finally arrives.  Maybe I’ll build a makeshift stage in the basement, aim the spotlight at it, and pretend I’m Ted Nugent ripping out a solo on tour with Damn Yankees.  Better yet, maybe I’ll just stop paying my light bill and just use the spotlight to light my home after dark!

Heck, maybe I’ll just bring it on by the local candle-maker’s shop just to show off how obsolete he’s become.  Then I’ll hand him a spotlight of his own, all wrapped up in holographic paper because we’re living in the future now.  Sure, he’s a complete stranger and everything, but for $23.99, I can afford to give a few away!

We've had a few daily deals here on BuyersHQ.com featuring Ed Hardy designs by Christian Audigier now, and it got me wondering... Who the hell is Ed Hardy, and why do so many remote control toys come with Ed Hardy decals?  Does Ed Hardy even drive a Lamborgini Murcielago, and if he does drive one, is it covered in decals of snakes and stuff?

Well, I did a little Googling, and here's what I found.  Ed Hardy is a tattoo artist based out of Laguna Beach, Calif.  (Yes, THAT Laguna Beach.)  Turns out he was a pupil of another famous tattoo artist back in the day, Sailor Jerry Collins.  Thanks to his association with Sailor Jerry, Ed was invited to Japan to study that country's style of tattooing under a man named Horihide, who I assume is famous in his own right over there.  In any case, Ed came back to the States and started to incorporate some of the Japanese aesthetic into his tattoo designs, and fans of tattooing were pretty impressed.

Good as old Ed was, though, he didn't really make a dent in the popular consciousness until his tattoo designs were optioned by clothing designer Christian Audigier.  Seems ol' Christian had enjoyed some success designing and marketing the Von Dutch line of apparel, and I guess he saw some appeal in Ed Hardy's work, because he started marketing the Ed Hardy line to celebrities and opeing up shops in trendy shopping districts.  Pretty soon, every trend-jocking musclehead in your hometown was rocking t-shirts with loud Ed Hardy prints of tigers, snakes, skulls, and other designs in your favorite bars.  Eventually, the line got so popular that they started making radio-controlled Lamborghinis that came with Ed Hardy decals.  That, my friends, is saturation!

Sadly, I couldn't find any info on what kind of car Ed himself drives around, but I'm pretty sure Mr. Audigier drives around an armored car to carry the huge bags of money he's made off of freaking t-shirts.  God bless the American dream!

When we think of laminators, we usually think of those giant machines in the teacher’s lounge at our elementary school that were used to preserve alphabet charts, kitten posters, and other paper decorations.  Well, either that or fake IDs.  Home laminators like our deal of the day, the GBC Creative 9 Laminator Kit, can be used for so much more, though!  That’s why I’ve taken the time to compile this list of five handy and useful laminating projects:

1.     Concert ticket collection:  If you’re like me, you probably have a bunch of old concert ticket stubs stashed in the top drawer of your dresser, just sitting there for no apparent reason.  That Bush tour in ’96 sure brings back a lot of memories.  By laminating my tickets, my kids will have the pleasure of seeing the proof that their old man caught the Spin Doctors in their prime!
2.    Create your own dry erase board:  Perfect for making little notes to yourself or your family!  Just laminate some pretty paper, attach a magnet to the back, and voila—instant dry erase board for the fridge.  There’s one in my kitchen right now—at the moment, it reads “Urologist appointment Thursday.”  Handy!
3.    Rain-proof newspaper:  Tired of your newspaper getting impossibly soggy while you walk in the rain?  The solution is simple:  Laminate it!  Thanks to its new clear plastic coating, you can stroll for hours in a torrential downpour without fear of your paper disintegrating. 
4.    Vice Presidential Photo Collection:  There are few things more precious to me than my collection of photos of Vice President Joe Biden.  Thanks to my trusty laminator, I’m content in the knowledge that these powerful pieces of history will be preserved for future generations, thousands of years after I’m gone. 
5.    Compact discs:  My old CD collection isn’t aging quite as well as I was told it would.  Even optical media can’t last forever when the stupid discs scratch so easily!  Solution:  Laminating all my CDs!  Hey, plastic is clear… lasers can beam right through it, right?  Don’t forget to poke a hole in the center.

As you can see, there are nearly limitless fun projects that you can complete using your new laminator!  Heck, I’m thinking of new ones all the time.  What are some of your favorite laminator projects?