Electronic Gifts for Christmas
$10 to $100 Electronic Gadgets Make Good Christmas Presents
The electronic gift ideas presented here have been compiled with this motto: The items must have utility value rather than sheer fanciness. Normal and popular electronic gift items like digital cameras, camcorders, Ipods, MP3 players, and cell phones have been intentionally excluded here. Utility, novelty and usability with a computer to the extent possible have been particularly considered.
Electronic Gifts in Price Range up to 25 Dollars:
One of the cutest and most useful computer accessories today is the pen drive (USB flash drive). Being extremely compact and portable, this accessory has proved to be the most useful one for carrying computer files and also for backing up data. Being too small, it also has its weakness because people may tend to lose it.
Thus a pen drive will prove to be one of the best gift items for any receiver. Even the person has one already, the second one as a spare will still be welcome. Just in case the receiver does not want it, it will still prove to be a great gift item to be passed on to somebody else!
Nowadays, pen drives have also started doubling as music players. That is the great advantage of merger of technologies. Here is a brief list of suggested gift items under sub $25 category.
- 1GB/ 2 GB USB pen drive with music player (~ $15 or less)
- USB pen drives from 1 GB to 8 GB (~$5 to $25)
- 1 GB wrist band USB flash drive (~$10 or less)
- Compact mini stereo speakers for PC/ laptop/ music player (Samsung or other make, size about 2” cube) (~$10 or less)
- LCD window thermometer – can be hung on the wall, shows current temperature and also day’s maximum and minimum temperatures (~$10)
- LED retro flash lights (battery lights) – bright, consumes much less power, lasts longer (less than $20 for a pair)
Electronic Gifts in Price Range Less Than 50 Dollars
A cobweb of wires at the back of the desk top computer is an irritant to most of computer users. If people have the flexibility to use the keyboard and mouse spaced some distance away from computer without cables, a lot of flexibility and convenience gets added. Thus cordless mouse and key boards will prove to be quite attractive and useful gifts for the receivers.
In the following list, there is one item which has a novelty and fun element and it is the clock on wheels (see picture).
- Cordless laser mouse for PC or laptop (~$50 or less)
- Cordless laser keyboard for PC (~$60 or less)
- Alarm clock with wheels – The clock rings, if you don’t stop it, it runs away (can drop up to 2.5 feet height) on the floor, hides somewhere and keeps ringing – to force you to get up and silence it! ($50 and less)
- Water proof, roll ‘em up keyboard (flexible) for computer – very useful under dusty and open environment (~$35 and less)
Electronic Gifts in Price Range up to 100 Dollars
In the following list, the most recommended computer accessory is the portable external Hard disk drive. The very large storage capacity is handy for storing everything in your fixed Hard disk - your data files, photos, audios, videos, movies etc. With it, you can virtually carry the essence of all computer activity wherever you go. Confidentiality and flexibility – both are in your pockets now.
- For the incurable music buff – portable hard disk (SATA/ IDE) DVD and music player (without hard disk – portable hard disk can be attached to it) (~$50)
- Water proof bathroom (shower) mirror/audio speaker – can wirelessly connect to radio, TV, music player 100 feet away (~$100 and less)
- For the energetic drummer : USB roll-up electronic drum – you can simply connect this cloth like drum to your computer and play different percussion instrument sounds like a professional electronic drummer (~$60 and less)
- Portable external hard disk drive 500GB (~$75)
- Cordless keyboard and mouse combination (~$100)
- Wireless headphone for TV, music player and computer (~$60 or less)
Please Note:
The data given above have been collected from several websites including Amazon, Ebay gifts and so on. Prices are very approximate and may cover only basic price in most cases. Delivery charges may be extra.
Go ahead and gift your dear ones with novel and useful electronic gifts in this Christmas season. Merry Christmas!
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