App - Target Cartwheel

I am a coupon queen and I love target. So when I first heard about "Target Cartwheel" I decided to check it out, since its a free app. I love the idea of having coupons right on my phone and not having to cut coupons from the paper anymore.



The cartwheel helps you save on things that you already buy at target. The app is optimized for the IPhone and requires iOS 6.0 or later but they recently came out with a Android version. The coupon offers range from 5% to 50%. You can use the offers as many times as you want before they expire.




First you can sign up with your email address or through your Facebook account. After you create your account you will be assigned your own scan bar code to redeem your Cartwheel offers.

Cartwheel is an app that includes over 700 coupons and can be used on your tablet, smartphone and desktop. When you first sign up you get 10 spots for coupons. You can get more when you use coupons in the store.

You can view all the coupons at once or you can view them in categories like: Apparel, baby, electronics and grocery...

I have found that I mostly use the food coupons!






Target's cartwheel incorporates a social aspect to shopping. You can hook the cartwheel up with your Facebook account and see what offers your friends are adding and using.





After you find a coupon offer that you want to add to your cartwheel you just hit add.







Then to redeem the offer you go to the app and go to my cartwheel and have the cashier scan your personal bar code.






Pros about Cartwheel:

* You CAN use Cartwheel with any other Target discounts or coupons, manufacturers’ coupons and your REDcard discount.


* Multi-use offers – you are able to use any offer on your list as many times as you wish until the offer expires (with the following exceptions: limit of 4 items per offer, per transaction; limit of 6 Cartwheel scans per day).

* Single scan barcode – each barcode generated by Cartwheel is unique to the guest and holds all of the offers on their Cartwheel list.


* Badges – badges are a fun way to earn more spots on your Cartwheel list. They are awarded for reaching savings milestones, interacting with Cartwheel, and via social sharing. For each badge that is earned, a new spot on your Cartwheel list is opened.

Best Device- Virtual Reality

One cool thing at the CES show this year was the Oculus Rift prototype.

Here is more information about it:






The company was founded by Plamer Kuckey and Scaleform co-founders Brendan Iribe and Michael Antonov.  The Oculus Rift is being developed by Oculus VR, which raised $2.4 million with their Kickstarter.

Convergence: With their Kickstarter anyone who pledged $300 or more was rewarded with the developers kit.  Pledges over $275 would get an un-assembled Rift prototype.  The consumer version of the product is expected it be available in late 2014 or early 2015. The developer kit costs $300 and has a resolution of 1280 x 800.  When the consumer version comes out it will be under $300 and will have a resolution of 1920 x 1080 with a 7 inch screen.

Consumerism: It is a head mounted display for gamers.   The product is aimed at hardcore video game players.  It has better resolution than the previous model.  It can be hooked up with a HDMI and USB cable, so you can use it with your PC, console or even your smartphone.

Interactivity: The new Oculus is very accurate at tracking your head movements. The new motion tracking system allows for actions such as crouching or learning, which helps to alleviate motion sickness.