Most people have already purchased their holiday gifts for people. But if you're way behind on getting awesome things for the special people in your life, then you're likely scrambling at this very moment to come up with ideas for gifts just in time for 2015 to roll around. What will it be? An iTunes gift card? A big wad of cash with a note that says, "Oh well, I tried"? If you're anything like us, then occasionally you're prone to giving less-than-inspired gifts. But we have a solution to help you out with that. You see, all year we've been following the countless new tech gadgets that have been emerging with dizzying frequency. There are so many cool gizmos out there that it's hard to narrow them down to just a few. But that's what we're going to do here. So here's a roundup of some sweet tech devices that are perfect for gifts, broken down by who they should go to:
- For the "New Year's Fitness" person: You know the person (or perhaps you are them). Every year, right around mid-December, they start talking animatedly about their New Year's resolution to really commit themselves to an exercise regiment. One month and a couple gym visits later and that's about it for their fitness craze. But you can help this over-ambitious person by giving them a fitness wristband like this that tracks exercise progress. Devices like these help you with a multitude of fitness-related tasks, such as managing your movement and eating properly. What a product like this succeeds in doing is keeping motivation high all the time.
- For the cell phone dropping-prone person: If you haven't had a cracked smartphone screen yourself, then the odds are very high that you know someone who has. According to one report, right around a quarter of iPhone users have a phone with a cracked screen. Perhaps you have a relative who's always dropping their phone, no matter how many new ones they get. Wouldn't it be cool to help this person out with a helpful little tech accessory? Fortunately, you can. That's where a strong smartphone case like the Otterbox comes into play. Sure, you could always pick up one of those $10 smartphone cases available in the checkout line at Old Navy, but those will generally only protect the back of your device. What a case like the Otterbox does is provide as close to total protection as possible. The company's "Defender" series of cases, for instance, comes with a "built-in screen protector [which] shelters every inch of the 4.7" display, defending against scratches, scrapes and scuffs."
- For the person who has every tech gadget: The hardest people to buy tech gifts for are those who have everything already – like the aunt whose living room is like a miniature Apple Store, or the cousin whose entertainment center looks like it came out of a Best Buy catalog. For people like this, the challenge and the ultimate reward is to find the one thing they don't have – something they'll be impressed that you could add to their tech arsenal. That's where Grid-It from Cocoon comes into the fold. This tech organizer is the perfect gift for that tech-hungry uncle who's spent the majority of his life accumulating a rat's nest of cords, headphones, chargers and other things that just desperately need to get organized. What's great about this gadget holder is that in addition to being durable – it's guaranteed to hold your various gadgets in place – it also makes for a highly intuitive storage resource.
