Ten Christmas Gifts Idea

Cameras: the full HD video

Digital SLRs now offer the full HD video, a big trend this season. Technologies now allow these devices to achieve good performance both in photos and video, without one being the poor relation. Thus, no need to carry two devices. The big brands are there all bets: Alpha 55 for Sony, Olympus Pen E-PL1, Canon EOS 60D, Nikon D7000.

Color
The high-tech has finally taken its liberties against the former sector codes. Exit gray and black spot colors! Some ideas to liven up his panoply: Sony CyberShot cameras or Pentax HR 1000 (and customizable faceplates with flashy colors), the new range of Vaio notebook Sony PCV-EA3 (available in black, white, pink, blue, green and purple), the range of LCD TV Haier colorful, compact and portable, but also DVD recorders (Samsung), external hard drives (Western Digital, Transcend) ...

Smartphones: big is beautiful
Side smartphones, it will be a big screen or nothing. That is to say at least 3.5 inches or 8.9 inches diagonally. According to Gfk, these phones in France represented 10% of smartphones sold in August 2010. Logical smartphones tend to resemble more and more, this leaves only the OS and the size of the screen to differentiate. A Tens of models from 4 to 5 inches should be out in H1 2011 (including a 4.8-inch Acer), but we can already find happiness: HD7 HTC, HTC Desire HD (4.3 inch), Nokia N8 ( 3.5-inch), Motorola Milestone 2 (3.7 inch) or Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 (4 inch).

Wireless is everywhere
Wireless is already well established in the homes. Customers are accustomed to surfing without unsightly cable through WiFi or CPL. But today, the trend extends to all devices in the home, who can now communicate with each other at a distance, for simplicity. One thinks of printers (HP ePrint technology lets you print directly from any terminal by sending an email to the printer. EPrint is compatible with the system Airprint Apple), but also for example in the Air Develo TV, which lets you view the contents of a computer on a TV without cable, with a range of 10m (Wireless USB Technology - USB stick plugs into the PC and communicates with the receiver on the TV connected to HDMI or VGA).

The retro design
The retro trend is affirmed in the high tech, against the tide of the ongoing race for innovation. The second series of corners Fnac of the Fnac, "Vintage lovers", presented by such a key-shaped USB audio cassette (Suck UK Mix Tape 128 MB), or iPod speaker shaped ghetto blaster (Mercury Boombox Eco Nation GD9060, i931RU Lasonic Ghetto Blaster). iRetrophone is an iPhone dock that allows you to call with his iPhone using a handset to the former. LG surprises with its Series 1 Retro Classic, a 14 inch TV to look 70's, brown or orange, which offers a color display mode, black & white and sepia. The retro is not only in design. Go see the side of the SM-4000 card, a portable game console that emulates the old Sega Mega Drive (contains 20 games).

Touch pads
The touch pads are a trend in itself, do not bother to add more. It's the gift that everyone wants to see under her tree, both adults and children (the high-tech gift most desired by Americans between 6 and 12 years according to Nielsen, at the computers and consoles game).

Toys for big kids
The technology is a good excuse to return to the pleasures of childhood. BeeWi has understood with his Mini Cooper S Remote for smartphone bluetooth. Presented at the auto show this year, the car is 1/20th scale remote controlled by the movements of the gyroscope smartphone (Android) and the touch screen. See also, a "quadricopter" remotely via WiFi on iPhone (or other terminal). Two onboard cameras broadcast the view from the cockpit on the smartphone screen. Games using augmented reality can engage in fighting between UAVs, using missiles and cannons. Want to mingle the useful and the gadget? Why not try a robot vacuum cleaner (iRobot, Samsung).

The high-tech to be like the great
If the great have their toys, too, are pampered little as future consumers of high-tech.And their parents love them buy these little gadgets that entertain as well. All values are safe to catalogs: Tablet (educational console Mobigo Vtech Touch), the MP3 player (Lego, Fisher Price), Digital Camera (Fisher Price), the camcorder (Vtech Kidizoom Video Cam, Barbie Girl Video ).

3D otherwise
Impossible to miss, 3D is now unavoidable. Only now, the 3D TV is expensive. Difficult to find at less than 1000 USD. LG offers an alternative with a polarized 3D TV (LD 950), using passive technology (the glasses do not embark electronics) while other manufacturers have adopted the 3D massively called "active". Result, a 47 inch from 1700 USD with 4 pairs of glasses. To enjoy even when the trend without investing in a TV, we may turn to the 3D camera (Sony NEX-5, Fujifilm FinePix W3 goal Panasonic Lumix for hybrids), or 3D laptops. Other products will soon join the 3D NTT will launch a smartphone running Android and 3D without glasses in Japan (Lynx 3D), and Hasbro will release next year a prop (kind of binoculars), My3D to view 3D apps on iPhone.The trend is not nearly reversed.

Geek toys
The passion for technology and gadgets has spread to the general public, even in toys: build and program robots (sets Buki, Lego Mindstorms), watch mini-robots smart reproducing the behavior of insects (Hexbug, in the top 10 sales at Toys R Us) ... anyone?