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Woot-Off 2/24: The quest for crappy bags!

TrevorTrevor Registered User regular
edited April 2011 in Games and Technology
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It's that time of the random date again! Our good friends at Woot.com are once again offloading singing Elvis heads and Roombas. Just remember the theme if there's something you don't want to buy.

Hey, what's a Woot-off?

Hey, why do people bother to sit around and hit F5 all day?

Here are some trackers so that not everyone is making Woot's servers cry.

This thread is for keeping track of what might be worth purchasing and to casually goad other PA forumers into purchasing junk you don't want.

Edit: Looks like it's time to recycle this thread again.

Edit edit: I am totally not above resurrecting this thread every month.

Edit edit edit: I think it's been four or five times.

Edit edit edit edit: Six times?

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  • MrDelishMrDelish Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    no link?

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  • Nimble CatNimble Cat Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Are the green lasers the cool ones?

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  • TrevorTrevor Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Are there lasers that aren't cool?

    More information that anyone should know about green laser pointers (bonus points because it already sold out).
    Green laser pointers appeared on the market circa 2000, and are the most common type of DPSS lasers (also called DPSSFD, diode pumped solid state frequency-doubled). They are much more complicated than standard red laser pointers, because laser diodes are not commonly available in this wavelength range. The green light is generated in an indirect process, beginning with a high-power (typically 100-300 mW) infrared AlGaAs laser diode operating at 808 nm. The 808 nm light pumps a crystal of neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum vanadate (Nd:YVO4) (or Nd:YAG or less common Nd:YLF), which lases deeper in the infrared at 1064 nm. The vanadate crystal is coated on the diode side with a dielectric mirror that reflects at 1064 nm and transmits at 808 nm. The crystal is mounted on a copper block, acting as a heatsink; its 1064 nm output is fed into a crystal of potassium titanyl phosphate (KTP), mounted on a heatsink in the laser cavity resonator. The orientation of the crystals must be matched, as they are both anisotropic and the Nd:YVO4 outputs polarized light. This unit acts as a frequency doubler, and halves the wavelength to the desired 532 nm. The resonant cavity is terminated by a dielectric mirror that reflects at 1064 nm and transmits at 532 nm. An infrared filter behind the mirror removes IR radiation from the output beam, and the assembly ends in a collimator lens.

    Nd:YVO4 is replacing Nd:YAG and Nd:YLF due to lower dependency on the exact parameters of the pump diode (therefore allowing for higher tolerances), wider absorption band, lower lasing threshold, higher slope efficiency, linear polarization of output light, and single mode output. For frequency doubling of higher power lasers, LBO is used instead of KTP. Newer lasers use a composite Nd:YVO4/KTP crystal instead of two discrete ones.

    Some green lasers operate in pulse or quasi-continuous wave (QCW) mode, to reduce cooling problems and prolong battery life.

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  • Foolish ChaosFoolish Chaos Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    All lasers are the cool ones.

    Green are especially cool though.

    Edit: Goddamn beat.

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  • Last SonLast Son Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I swear the bar actually increased when I refreshed the page just now.

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  • TrevorTrevor Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    My tracker of choice has said that it will be 10 more minutes for 40 minutes now. They either have a ton of these things or nobody wants to buy the "camel" colored ones.

    Edit: Nice, it says there's -43 seconds left on the item now.

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  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    edited February 2009
    God I wish I had money.
    Razer Diamondback 15 bucks.
    Wireless USB adapter 8 bucks.

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  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    edited February 2009
    lol a kite for a penny.

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  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Oh gosh someone buy me the keyboard I'll pay ya back honest.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    a....vaccum

    this is going to take so long

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    who the fuck buys a vacuum at 2 in the morning

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  • PMAversPMAvers Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Zombiemambo wrote: »
    who the fuck buys a vacuum at 2 in the morning

    People who got the e-mail that there's going to be a Woot-off tonight and need a vacuum, that's who.

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  • TrevorTrevor Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I probably should have ransacked my bank account in order to get that computer, mine is dying.

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  • SlicerSlicer Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    This guitar is going to stay up forever

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  • DeathPrawnDeathPrawn Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Maybe if it wasn't a total POS.

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  • IcemopperIcemopper Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Yeah... somebody should just mercy buy it.

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  • TrevorTrevor Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    $90's a little high for a mercy buy.

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  • IcemopperIcemopper Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Yeah, especially if all you get is a box with strings on it.

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  • MarvellousMMarvellousM United StatesRegistered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Last Son wrote: »
    I swear the bar actually increased when I refreshed the page just now.
    Yeah me too, but isn't this the first Woot-off since the redesign? They're probably still working out the kinks.

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  • TK-42-1TK-42-1 Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    BUY THE GOD DAMN GUITARS PEOPLE

    fuck youll buy $600 projectors in like 1 minute but this guitar lasts hours

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  • TrevorTrevor Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that there are a ton more guitars than projectors.

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  • waywardryanwaywardryan Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I dont get why this is such a big deal. The picture frame is only $2 less than what you can get it at amazon for.

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  • CronusCronus Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Trevor wrote: »
    I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that there are a ton more guitars than projectors.

    At least we are done with the guitars and onto digital picture frames. They do make good gifts.

    I hope a can get another Bag of Crap from them. They are totally worth the dollar.

    edit: The picture frames sold out as I submitted, we now have a Dazzle DVD recorder up. What the hell? DAZZLE?

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  • waywardryanwaywardryan Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    wtf is a pocket shockit? sounds dirty

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  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I need more money.

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  • algorythymalgorythym Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    My CompSci professor teaches class of that tablet PC.

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  • waywardryanwaywardryan Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I have the better version of it and I like it a lot.

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  • CronusCronus Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    This alarm clock scares me. I think it's trying to frighten me into buying it.

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  • TK-42-1TK-42-1 Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Cronus wrote: »
    This alarm clock scares me. I think it's trying to frighten me into buying it.

    i just want to know what person buys 3 of those things

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  • CronusCronus Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    TK-42-1 wrote: »
    Cronus wrote: »
    This alarm clock scares me. I think it's trying to frighten me into buying it.

    i just want to know what person buys 3 of those things

    Someone who hates both themselves and their neighbors? Or wants to give a gift and hates that person as well.

    Really just someone with a lot of hate.

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  • waywardryanwaywardryan Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    boo charades

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  • TheDissolutionTheDissolution Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Everyone hates charades

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  • TK-42-1TK-42-1 Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    the whole point of the game is that you dont need crap to play it

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  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    edited February 2009
    But it gives you ideas.

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  • TheDissolutionTheDissolution Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    what if you're charading that you're playing charades

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  • TK-42-1TK-42-1 Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    <+Slicer> looks like woot off put an end this this charade

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  • Doc HollidayDoc Holliday Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Haha... mywoot is cool. It's all "cockadoodledoo" while I'm working to tell me the item changed.

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  • ArcSynArcSyn Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Ok, external HDD enclosure. What interface is it?! Argh.. I have a spare 500GB SATA drive and I would love this for it, but they don't tell you what interface it's using other than USB or network.

    Google is my friend. IDE. :( (Though it does normally retail for $65)

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  • Foolish ChaosFoolish Chaos Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Bacon Salt. The end is here, it looks like.

    Anyone get anything cool? I have no money to spare right now, so I didn't have a chance to buy anything. Though I didn't really see much anyway.

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  • PMAversPMAvers Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    There was a wireless print server thing that I could've *really* used, but it didn't take my order when I clicked the button.

    And I missed the BoC's by a minute. D:

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