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November 21, 2024 • 8 mins
USA Today writer and tech guru, Marc Saltzman joins Gary and Shannon for #TechTalk to share some apps top help save money on Black Friday and how Apple Watches can now track your sleep apnea.
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Speaker 5 (01:32):
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Speaker 6 (01:40):
Well, I'd like to talk to Mark Saltzman, v tech Guru,
about what's going on in the world of tech. And
obviously a big shopping day is coming up aar week
from tomorrow with Black Friday, which already brings with it
some discounts. But you have some suggestions on how to
get even the best discounts.

Speaker 5 (01:58):
Of course I do.

Speaker 7 (01:59):
Unless Shannon wants to host tech Talk today, since she's
already taking over the news.

Speaker 8 (02:04):
To the weather, you know that I am going to
be on the radio this afternoon in Regina, Saskatchewan. Come on,
so I am kind of taking your job as well.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
Yes, how come talking Charger football with a sports station.

Speaker 7 (02:17):
Oh that's fun, Yeah, that's cool. Regina the city that
rhymes with fun.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
Home of the Riders.

Speaker 7 (02:25):
Yes, Wow, you're good, You're good, amazing, Amazingly did you
know that we had two rough Riders, Ottawa and and Saskatchewan,
and so we had two teams with the same name,
so they changed Ottawa changed it. I think, I think
to the Red Blacks now. But I'm not up on
my Canadian Football League, my CFL. And that's not why

(02:45):
I'm on KFI and iHeart Radio. I'm here to talk.
I'm here to geek out with you. So, Shannon, if
you do not want to host today's segment, you know
I will keep my pocket protector on. And yes, to
answer your question, Gary, there are some great apps that
you can use all year round, but especially over Black
Friday because they have special sections in these apps to
get you an even better deal. One of them is flip,

(03:09):
which is FLI doublep It aggregates all those circulars that
you may get at home every week, but lets them.

Speaker 5 (03:17):
It'll highlight the best deals that you want. So if
you type into.

Speaker 7 (03:20):
The app, I don't know air pods or even if
it's grocery items like type in chicken breast and.

Speaker 5 (03:25):
It'll show you which retailers around you.

Speaker 7 (03:28):
It is more of a retail thing than an online thing,
but it'll show you who has the best deal, you know,
so which retailer near you has the best deal.

Speaker 5 (03:35):
So it uses your phone's GPS to identify where you are,
or you can type in your.

Speaker 7 (03:39):
Zip code and it'll show you which retailer has the
best deal. Or you can browse by circular you know,
and it'll show you the best deals. You can clip
it into your shopping cart, and you can also sign
up for deal alerts. So if you have your eye
on something, let's say seventy five inch Samsung four K TV,
if you don't want to pay whatever fourteen ninety nine

(04:01):
on it, if you say, hey, if it drops down
to eleven hundred and ninety nine, I'm in, you can say.

Speaker 5 (04:05):
You can type that so to.

Speaker 7 (04:06):
Speak in the app, and it'll push a notification in
your phone when it finds what you want is at
the price that you want. So that's flip FLI DOUBLEP.
I'm sure a lot of your listeners already use that one.
Slick Deals is one of my favorites. We've talked about
that on this program before, on this segment where again
it's a community of about twelve million shoppers all trying

(04:27):
to sniff out the best deals. They all vote on
it and they vet it to make sure that it's
a really a good deal. Is it retail, is it online?

Speaker 5 (04:34):
Is it both? Is it in one state over another only?

Speaker 7 (04:38):
And so long as it passes all these very talented
folks who devote a lot of time to this, it
can end up on the front page of the app
or website. So again, it also has a similar deal
alert thing where you type it in, like, I'm a
big Twilight Zone fan and the Blu ray discs for
the original series are about fifty or sixty bucks of
hot per season, and so I signed up for a

(05:00):
deal alert with Slick Deals, and just last week I
was told that they're down to six dollars and ninety
nine cents a sale, So yeah, grab the rest of
my collection. Another great app rakutin they used to be
called Ebates.

Speaker 5 (05:12):
This is a cash back app.

Speaker 7 (05:14):
So where you shop, you start at the website or
the app, or you install the browser extension, and it
keeps an eye on where you're going and if you
shop at one of the participating retailers that is connected
to Rakutin, and there's about two thousand or so, then
you will get a certain percentage of that purchase back
to you as a PayPal deposit or via via check.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
Quick side note, how does Rakutin make money off of that?

Speaker 7 (05:41):
If you because you know they're sharing basically that what's
the expression, there's a term for it where you it's
like an affiliate program affiliate link. So yeah, if you so,
if you sticking with that Samsung TV as an example,
they get a kickback if you buy it through Rakutin,
which is essentially what you're doing, right. If you looked
at the URL, the website address, it'll have like a

(06:03):
long alpha numeric string that basically tells the retailer, let's
say best Buy that it was brought over by Rakutin.
They get a kickback from best Buy and then they,
in turn Rakutin will share it with you up to
thirty percent cash back.

Speaker 5 (06:18):
It does vary.

Speaker 7 (06:18):
It could be as low as three four percent, but hey,
it's found money, right, and you get to a sign
up bonus as well, so those.

Speaker 5 (06:24):
Are all good as well as PayPal honey.

Speaker 7 (06:26):
Same idea as a browser extension that will before you
check out let's say at Amazon, it may say, hey,
this is this product that you're looking for, is less
money at I don't know, Walmart, so you know, don't
buy it here, or it'll automatically apply a coupon upon checkout.
So this article that I wrote, if you want to
google my name, Mark Saltzman, Marc Saltsman, you'll be able

(06:49):
to see and then type in Black Friday apps. You'll
see all the ones we've chatted about. Don't try to
jot it down, especially if you driving.

Speaker 6 (06:57):
The other one that the other article that we wanted
to talk to you about was that the Apple Watch
is now checking your sleep apnea.

Speaker 7 (07:06):
Yeah, FDA approved this, so it has provided a medical
device license for Apple Watch. If you have one of
the newer models, so it's Apple Watch ten which is
the newest one, or Ultra two, and then last year's
Apple Watch Series nine.

Speaker 5 (07:21):
So when you're wearing this to bed.

Speaker 7 (07:23):
It'll I help identify signs of moderate to severe sleep apnea,
which is of course a potentially serious yet often diagnosed
condition where your breathing stops repeatedly during sleep. And you know,
if that's left untreated, if you don't know that, you've
got apnea that could have some important health consequences, like
it increased risk of hypertension, type two diabetes, it's been

(07:46):
linked to cardiac issues.

Speaker 5 (07:48):
So what it's doing under.

Speaker 7 (07:49):
The hood of the Apple Watch is that it's got
that built in accelerometer, that sensor that will monitor teeny
movements that you make throughout the night that are associated
with interruptions in normal respy patterns. And that's again why
you need it in the new or watches. It's got
like an added sensor and software there, and then the
next day Apple Watch users will be able to view

(08:10):
their nightly breathing disturbances in the health app on their
phone or an iPad, and then you know, after thirty days,
it'll give you a diagnosis, which they of course they
have to say this legally is that you have to
share that with your physician to make an official diagnosis.
But yes, sleep apnea is very common and if I'm treated,

(08:31):
it could be an issue.

Speaker 5 (08:31):
So Apple Watch, I love that. Over the years they've
been adding more and more health features to it. So
good stuff there.

Speaker 6 (08:39):
Do you have one of those sleep tracker Aura rings
or what do you use your watch or anything like that?

Speaker 5 (08:44):
Yeah, as a journalist.

Speaker 7 (08:47):
I was sent an Aura ring, but I after I
reviewed it, I didn't wear it.

Speaker 5 (08:51):
I don't know why.

Speaker 7 (08:52):
It was a couple of years ago, and I know
they've improved and Samsung now has a ring, but no,
I don't wear a ring. And I actually put my watch.
I charge it when I go to to sleep, which
is uh. But now that I know I do want
to try. My wife is maybe because I snore a
little bit, she is asking me to wear this to
bed to see if I do have AVNA.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
She wants to it. So it shocks you exactly, I.

Speaker 5 (09:14):
Wouldn't be surprised.

Speaker 8 (09:16):
Does she try to uh? Does she assault you when
you snore when you're sleep?

Speaker 7 (09:20):
Well, yeah, So the least she'll do is tell me
to turn the f over because I'm on my back
usually yeah.

Speaker 5 (09:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (09:28):
And then the worst case is she'll, uh, you know,
most of our kids are away at college, so she'll
go and sleep in the other room and then you know,
give me.

Speaker 5 (09:34):
Heck the next morning, or she'll let me know.

Speaker 7 (09:37):
If it's if I have a big gig the next day,
like an important early TV interview, she'll let me sleep
and she'll yeah, she'll go to the one but I've
never been kicked out to go to the other room.
At least she does. It's very sweet, but no, it's uh.
If I'm on my back, it's trouble.

Speaker 5 (09:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
I thought it was going to be.

Speaker 6 (09:51):
She tells me to turn over, and then if I
don't turn over, turns my playbook.

Speaker 4 (09:57):
There you go, mark great stuff.

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