Gadget Gift Ideas For Everyone

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Here are over 20 gift ideas for your tech-curious friends and family who don't know an overclocked PC from overcooked turkey. Happy Holidays!

Most of the people who read this site have strong opinions about technology. They want to learn more about cutting-edge advances, value, and performance, but they already know a lot to begin with.

Our readers have friends and family members who come to them for advice. Friends and family naturally run the gamut from clueless newbies to console gamers to shutterbugs to super-enthusiastic kids and grandparents. This guide is here to help you make inspired choices about the gifts they might want and enjoy, from the world of tech.

But, remember, only a few of these items will make sense for your particular set of loved ones.

We do a holiday gift guide every year, and every year we see the same feedback: “Well, that was a lot of stuff to look at, none of which I could possibly afford.” We get it. Tech toys are expensive, sometimes impractical, and always subjective. Why do we bother? Because the holidays are about dreaming.

Our winter-season holidays celebrate the triumph of light over dark, and good over evil. It’s a time to relish the possible and that which we hope for. When our gift-guide writers were kids, they composed epic-length holiday wish lists, with each item having its own multi-paragraph explanation and write-up. Some people called this ostentatious and greedy, but others “got it.” The wish list itself was a form of celebration. We never expected to get everything on our lists. Some years, we didn’t get anything on it. One of us is still waiting for that pony. But the act of writing these hopes down was fun in its own right.

In that same spirit, we hope you enjoy the gift guide before you now.

If you missed it, please check out our gift guide for Tech Experts.

*Photography by Andrew Hanson