Welcome to the Engadget Holiday Gift Guide! We’re well aware of the heartbreaking difficulties surrounding the seasonal shopping experience, so we’re here to help you sort out this year’s tech treasures. Below is today’s bevy of curated picks, and you can head back to the Gift Guide hub to see the rest of the product guides as they’re added throughout the holiday season.

Ah, the holiday season. That special time of year when we give our loved ones the new hotness of the video game world, and then promptly exploit their over-excited reactions to propel them into unwanted YouTube fame. Even if your familial relations don’t have the stuff to become this generation’s “N64 kid,” you can still kick a few rad toys their way just for the love of it. And if you’re having trouble finding the perfect gift for the gamer in your life, we’re here to help. Head past the break to take a peek at Engadget’s 2011 Holiday Gift Guide for video games. Not finding what you’re looking for? Skip on back to our 2011 Back to School Guide for bonus gift ideas.

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Question by Zoe: Christmas electronic gadget gift ideas for a fifteen year old girl?
Are there any new – not too expensive – electronic gadgets out?
I don’t know what I want to get for Christmas haha,
I was thinking along the lines of webcam, new phone, pay half for laptop etc.
Are there any cool gadgets out there that you like?

Best answer:

Answer by FourFangedCow
If she doesn’t have an iPod, get her one. I love mine (I have a 16gb, 1st gen. touch; I hear the new ones are better T-T) and I don’t even listen to that much music.

Half paying for a laptop would be cool. I sure wish someone would do that for me.

For phones, depends on the carrier. The iPhone is functional and fun, and the Droid is new (and I know NOTHING about it, but it looks cool ).

Webcam is a little useless unless she wants one for something in particular. Not much you can really do with one unless you want to skype with her when she goes to college or she has a long distance friend.

A small, digital point-and-shoot camera would also be fun. I know quite a few girls who own and use them frequently.

That’s all I got. Good luck! And I hope whatever you get, she likes.

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by jmatthew3

Buy gadgets and gifts from uk shops

Gadgets and gifts are no two different things. Nowadays gadgets are very often used as gifts. The reason is quite obvious as people of all age groups love to have gadgets. Culture of giving and receiving gifts is quite common everywhere. Uk is not an exception to it. Both men and women are involved in exchange of gifts on different occasions. Buying gadgets and gifts has also become easier due to the the concept of online shopping. It has led to the growth of a number of online shops everywhere in the world. Thus purchasing gadget gifts in uk is also very simple and less time taking in comparison to earlier days when there was no concept of internet shopping.

Boys love gadgets and want to make a collection of the different types of gadgets. Gadgets are so popular among them that it has become the synonym for toys. That is why people call gadgets toys for boys. When it comes to giving gifts to kids and big boys people therefore prefer to buy these toys for boys as it serves two different purposes at a time. It serves as a gift and secondly it works like a toy also. Whenever gift ideas strikes to one’s mind one rush to buy gadgets and not anything else.

People staying in uk have some advantages as they don’t have to rush to shopping malls. They can sit in their room and buy gadgets and gifts by clicking their mouse. The products they place an order for are delivered at their door step in no time. Some gadgets or toys for boys very famous among the big nd small boys include mobile phones, iPod, electronic charger, LCD TV and laptop. There is a huge demand for these gadget gifts in uk.

Searching latest gadgets and gifts is also very easy. If you check out internet you can find a number of online shops that offer latest gadgets or toys for boys at cheap prices. Sometimes you can get latest gadgets for free as it is offered by some online shops in the form of marketing strategy. If you are a regular visitor of some gadget websites you may be the one who can clinch these gadgets for free.

by limowreck666

Which Gadget Websites Have the Best Cool Gadgets for Men?

Whether you are buying for Father’s Day, father’s birthday, boyfriends birthday or just to show a man in your life how much he matters to you, gadgets are the best gift for men. Men love gadgets as they never really want to grow up and find it hard to let go of that child like fun feeling you get from playing with toys.

There are of course many gadget websites and shops online, so it is a bit of a mind blowing project when trying to find gadget gift ideas for the man in question. The best thing to do is narrow it down first so work out what the man in question enjoys the most, it might be fishing, soccer, biking, gaming or something high brow like literature or art. But believe me there are cool gadgets for men of any kind.

So once you have narrowed it down to say for example soccer, Google it as ‘soccer gadgets’ and see what you find. There are many great gadget shops and gadget websites which have search facilities but again it is still advisable to narrow down to at least two subjects before searching or you will find just too much choice and it will blow your mind and you’ll end up buying nothing.

Beware of the delivery times when buying online as they will sometimes say two weeks or ten days but once you order, it may take longer, so give yourself plenty of time. Try and avoid Chinese copies as invariably the items appear to be the same and great copies but they generally don’t last as long as the real thing and develop problems within six months of the purchase. Its false economy and you really don’t want to have to explain to your man when his gadget stops working that it’s a cheap Chinese copy.

My advice would always be, shop on the main gadget sites with established histories or online gadget shops that are backed by big organisations of which there are many. Ebay isn’t really the place for gadgets as they are mostly Chinese copies or refurbished. By the way ‘refurbished’ is the new marketing speak for ‘second hand’. It is a great way to get a bargain for yourself but not for someone very special in your life. Again you really don’t want to be explaining that it’s refurbished (second hand) if it goes wrong.

Probe a bit when chatting to find out what the man in question is missing in his gadget world. If he really wants a particular thing, by finding out you have just made your job a whole lot easier. Don’t forget men get preoccupied easily so it will be quite easy to find out what he wants without giving it away that you are buying it for him as a present. As long as you are vague in the conversation he won’t realise. Besides us men forget what you said within 10 minutes of the conversation changing.

Well… good luck and I hope you find a great gadget and make the man you are shopping for, very happy in deed. 

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