Top 5 Gadget Gifts for Every Budget this Christmas
If you are wondering what gifts to buy for your family and friends this Christmas and searching for the best tech items in the market, we’ve made your work easy. We have listed the top 5 gadget gifts for you:
1. Amazon Echo Dot
Echo Dot is a hands-free device that can be controlled by your voice. Echo Dot comes with a small built-in speaker. It can also connect to your speakers or headphones using Bluetooth or a 3.5 mm audio cable. Dot connects to the Alexa Voice Service to play music, provide information, news, sports scores, weather. When you want to use Echo Dot, just say the wake word “Alexa” and Dot responds instantly. Echo Dot has got a sleek and compact design which is very convenient to handle.
With its built-in speaker, you can place Dot in the bedroom and use it as a smart alarm clock that can also turn off your lights. Tucked under the light ring is an array of seven microphones that use beam-forming technology and enhanced noise cancellation. The more you use Echo Dot, the more easily it adjusts to your speech patterns and vocabulary. You can easily setup and manage your Echo Dot with the free Alexa App on Fire OS, Android, iOS, and desktop browsers.
2. Kindle Oasis
Kindle Oasis is designed to feel as light as paper. It is over 20% lighter and 30% thinner on average than any other Kindle. The handgrip narrows down to an ultrathin 0.13-inch display so you can read comfortably for hours without feeling tired. Kindle Oasis combines the strongest cover glass and a featherweight frame instilled with metal using structural electroplating, which makes sure it is lightweight while also being resilient. Comfortably turn the page with either the touch display or dedicated page turn button located on the front of the handgrip.
The new hibernation mode on Kindle Oasis reduces power consumption when you are not using your Kindle and this way it extends battery life. The removable charging cover is made of high-quality leather and is available in three colors: black, merlot, or walnut. The cover opens like a book waking Kindle Oasis when opened and putting it to sleep when closed. Using Kindle Oasis, you can flip through books while saving your place, export and share notes, build your vocabulary, adjust text size, add in-line footnotes, flip through notables passages using the X-Ray timeline and much more.
3. Google Daydream View
Daydream View is a VR headset and controller by Google that allows you to explore new worlds, helps you create your personal VR cinema, and play games in virtual reality. Daydream View’s intuitive and expressive controller transforms with your imagination and lets you fly through space or wield a magic wand. Inspired by the clothes you wear, the headset is made from a lightweight, breathable fabric so you stay comfortable. Swing a bat, bowl a strike, and even pilot your spaceship in celestial spaces. Speed your car down the racetrack, cast your fishing line, and play a round of miniature golf using Daydream View. Daydream View is available in three colors: Slate, Snow, and Crimson.
4. Chromecast
Chromecast is a media streaming device that you can plug into the HDMI port on your TV and use your mobile device and the TV you already own to see your favorite TV shows, films, music, sport etc. Chromecast works with Android phones and tablets, iPhones and iPads, Mac and Windows laptops and Chromebooks. By using your phone, it’s easy to browse and control the TV from anywhere in the home, and still using your phone for other things without interrupting what’s playing or draining your battery.
Choose from over 200,000 TV shows & films, 30 million songs, plus radio, sport, games and more. Chromecast streams content from the cloud, so you get the highest quality 1080p HD video and surround sound. Customize your TV screen with Google Photos, Facebook, Flickr, headline news and more. Cast exactly what you see on your Android phone or tablet screen to the TV. With Chromecast, you can play games using your phone as a personal controller, while watching the action live on the big screen.
5. LINE DOCK
LINE DOCK is a complete portable battery for your laptop. LINE DOCK offers a massive 20,000mAh battery, built-in storage up to 1TB, USB-C Hub and active cooling in a 9mm aluminum alloy shell. Line Dock is a massive laptop power bank and by far the thinnest for its capacity. At 20.000mAh Line Dock offers up to 15 additional hours of autonomy for your USB-C laptop as fast as a regular charger. Whether the device is On, Off, or in Sleep mode, the Line Dock will charge your device the battery up to 100%, then stops.
Leave your charger at home and forget about power outlets for two days. The embedded SSD is 5X faster than a regular computer hard drive. And because it is embedded, it means that you always have it with you. LINE DOCK is available in three colors: Silver, Space Gray, and Matte Black.
Christmas is only weeks away, choose the best tech gift that suits your requirements.
Dhruvil is a Writer & Marketeer for Nimblechapps, joined in December 2014, based out of Sydney, Australia. He has worked briefly as a Branding and Digital Marketing Manager before moving to Australia. At Nimblechapps, he worked on Social Media Marketing, Branding, Email Marketing and Blogging. Dhruvil studies Business at University of Western Sydney, and also handles Operations for the company in Australia.