Engadget's Holiday Gift Guide!
By Ryan Block 
posted Nov 24th 2006 3:05AM
posted Nov 24th 2006 3:05AM
Our each of our guides will be broken down by price to help you shop for what you can afford. As you're well aware, when shopping on the internet, prices can vary wildly, so please remember that some listed prices may be approximated. We know tech toys often don't come cheap, but with any luck you'll swoop into 2007 with some very happy giftees and a bank account not too depleted to miss out on getting yourself a little something after CES. Enjoy, and happy holidays!
Sincerely,
Your pals Engadget
P.S. -If you have any hot suggestions we may have missed, please don't hesitate to let us know in the comments!
The guides: for him, for her, for son, for daughter, for dad, for mom, for colleague.
Excellent article and comments!
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You may also want to add as a hot holiday gift the cool yet highly productive the KeyScan KS810 world's only keyboard with built in USB2 color scanner and USB2 HUB....
"Now we have the first hybrid computer keyboard and scanner. Occupying the same footprint as a regular keyboard, KS810 is a PC keyboard and sheet-feed scanner in one. The product scans black-and-white and color documents of various sizes –- from 3.5 x 2-inch business cards all the way up to 8.5 x 30-inch paper. http://blogs.usatoday.com/technologylive/2008/09/keyscan-introdu.html
It bundles Unique NoTouch AutoScan personal interactive scanning. Scans to multiplepage PDF, Word, HTML -built in IRIS OCR engine, compressed image files and Email attchments & Fax.
Indeed powerful tool on the desktop.
i would like to see suggestions for HDTV's
One suggestion: 'miss' should be 'missed'
Heh, thanks.
You should add a PS3 in there somewhere. Just because he can turn around and sell it for oodles of cash on Ebay.
You could do with a "cheep and cheerful" gadget bit.. y'know, cool gadgets for even cooler prices?
I'd like to see that....
what holiday?
i heard that Christmas is coming up, but not the Holiday?....
PS3 and HDTVS please! I doubt if I could get the PS3, but I'll still take a look...
samsung M610!
heres an idea: how about NOT finding a sponsor for every fucking thing on this site? I come here for news on gadgets, not to have ads shoved down my face. Don't you already have enough help from corporate America, or do you need to fatten your wallet a bit more? Or, how about not doing this guide at all? Christmas is not all about gifts. Perhaps a couple more bits on your charity work, or something like it? But I guess you wont listen, as peoples opinions are always trumped by the Almighty Dollar.
I never get people who use that argument. We provide premium content 24/7 with a full staff of professional writers, and you complain that we need to advertise? We have two choices: don't advertise (and Engadget goes away), or switch to subscription (proven not to work in most online content, and Engadget goes away). Just avert your eyes if it's so painful, or use an ad blocker if you're the type.
To "iamdigitalman". . . I'm not sure where you're going with that little rant. If you come here for news on gadgets, then surely you find it difficult to be disappointed in Engadget's offering. If you want that offering to be free, then realize that advertisements are what's making it possible for us to read up-to-date, quality gadget news with this kind of frequency.
If you have a better plan for how to fund a full-time blog then by all means, share it with the world. Make your opinion somewhat useful.
The current formula is simple:
Great content generates consumers of great content. Consumers attract advertisers. Advertisers enable the development of more great content for us to consume. (And so on.)
It's a self-perpetuating cycle, and it works. The bottom line is that we (the readers) wouldn't come here if the value proposition wasn't high enough. You don't have to thank Engadget for bringing that value to the table - but criticizing them for trying to be profitable is ridiculous.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to continue empowering the system. It may not be perfect, but it's effective - and in the spirit of Thanksgiving - I'm thankful for that.
Ryan,
I would like to apologize for using Adblock on your site. I don't use it because I care about watching ads, but rather because my computer can't handle all the flash ads, and it slows to a crawl when I turn adblock off. However, I go to engadget at school all the time without adblock.
I'd like to see something on digital photo frames. That could be on the "for mom" or "for her" gift guide...
Check out the G-Pad Pro motion sensing gamepad for those of us who didn't feel like dropping $600 on a PS3. Plus this has rumble.
imdigitalman...
do YOU work for free? must be nice.
Engadget,
You guys should come up with a contest for some of the Product Red stuff. Stuff's all the rage this year, and it goes for a good cause. You got both the RAZR and the Ipod to give away.
P.S (Since I came up with the idea and u use it, how bout some credit?)
DIGITAL DESSERT
If you're gonna buy a digital camera for someone, help them to take great photos too, with Digital Art Photography for Dummies. Think of the camera as the main course and Digital Art Photography for Dummies as the dessert. Get yourself "aweing" the pictures that you take.
I wrote the beast (http://digitalartphotographyfordummies.blogspot.com
How about the Hitch, iPod-to-iPod direct sharing device you linked yesterday?
http://www.gethitch.com
How about a list for students/friends?
or even a poor man's list?
Still looking for a last second gift? Try
http://www.spaemergency.com
You can instantly email or print gift certificates for spa anywhere in the country.
Does a great holiday gift have to be high-tech? I think it would be cool to take a break from the digital world and enjoy a delicious organic fruit basket from the real world. There are several great online retailers out there. I recommend Fresh Fruit Baskets( http://www.freshfruitbaskets.com ). Good selection, decent prices.
Add iPod competitors, like the Archos 605, creative zen W, Cowon A3, etc.
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