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Holiday Gift Guide 2016

With 120 picks at different prices, there's something for everybody.
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Best Tech Gifts
Cool Tech Gifts
The Entertainer
Egg Nog
Draft Beer
Glass Jug
Smart Kitchen
Pour Over Coffee
Kitchen Scale
The 12 best tech gifts for the entertainer in your life
The ability to have draft beer at home is great, but kegerators can be expensive and command a considerable amount of space. Synek’s beer system requires a good deal of room too, but at least it can rest on your kitchen counter or bar top. It also uses bags that you can take to a brewery for filling where local laws permit. Additionally, the company has a new growler adapter for those glass jugs you’ll often see used for takeout beer at breweries.
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Ice Cream Makers
The 12 best tech gifts for the entertainer in your life
Sometimes you have an ice cream craving, but can’t be bothered to leave the house. If you have the Whynter ICM-15LS in your kitchen and some cream and sugar on hand, you could be licking a sundae in just 30 minutes. That’s because, unlike cheaper ice cream makers on the market, the ICM-15LS has a built-in compressor freezer that chills creamy concoctions without having to pre-freeze a bowl for 24 hours.
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Technics Sl 1200
Cool Tech Gadgets
The 12 best tech gifts for the entertainer in your life
There are plenty of turntables out there, but few let you cue up, scratch and spin vinyl discs, while still offering an outlet into the digital world. Pioneer has stepped in, following the virtual disappearance of the Technics SL-1200 series, to offer its own affordable take on the classic deck with the PLX 500.
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Instant Camera
The 12 best tech gifts for the entertainer in your life
Take the guesswork out of home-brewing your own beer using the PicoBrew Pico. Unlike the company’s pricier Zymatic, this model uses prefilled “PicoPaks” for all the necessary ingredients. With 12 styles to choose from, you can offer your guests a range of brews that you made yourself.
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Tabletop Grill
Culinary Tips
The 12 best tech gifts for the entertainer in your life
They say all the action happens in the kitchen, and in many apartments, the counter also doubles as the main dinner table. With a smokeless tabletop grill, your hostess-with-the-mostest friend can put their cooking at the center of the action. The unique design keeps the elements off to the side, with a drip tray below the cooking surface, so grease and other detritus aren’t combusted into air-fouling smoke.
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Nature
Cute Stitch
The 12 best tech gifts for the entertainer in your life
There’s often an awkward moment when, in unfamiliar surroundings, people find themselves blindly searching for the lightswitch in a darkened room. Philips’ new addition to its Hue family of smart lighting products is a great gift for hosts, but may be an even better one for guests. Whether visitors are answering nature’s call or just poking around, they won’t have to fumble for the switch.
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Instax Wide
Halcyon Days
Instant Photos
The 12 best tech gifts for the entertainer in your life
If you have a photographer friend who’s nostalgic for the halcyon days of Polaroid, consider giving them a Lomo’Instant Wide for capturing the moments at their next party. It’ll churn out big-format instant photos just like the good ol’ days, plus it has fully programmatic shutter for just the right exposure. You can mix it up with lens attachments, a flash and even interchangeable color gels for that old-timey look.
a blender, measuring cup and other kitchen utensils
Making Drinks
The Perfect Kitchen
Perfect Kitchen
The 12 best tech gifts for the entertainer in your life
A kitchen scale comes in handy for cooking, baking and making drinks. With the Perfect Kitchen Pro kit, your favorite hosts gets not just a scale but three connected apps to guide your concoctions. The trio of apps -- Perfect Drink, Perfect Bake and Perfect Blend -- lend a hand with cocktails, baked goods and tracking nutritional stats for whatever you’re making.
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Sous Vide Cooking
Kitchen Drawer
The 12 best tech gifts for the entertainer in your life
Have a perfectionist in your life who’s also a bit of a foodie? Then there’s a good chance they’d be into sous vide cooking. This cook-in-a-bag method of food preparation ensures perfectly done meats every time. There are many sous vide cookers out there, but the Joule is the smallest and most portable of the lot. It fits easily into a kitchen drawer and you control it all via a user-friendly app.
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Slow Cooker Rice
Yogurt Maker
Kitchen Appliance
The 12 best tech gifts for the entertainer in your life
The Instant Pot is a wondrous kitchen appliance that can perform seven different functions. All told, it does the job of a pressure cooker, slow cooker, rice cooker, yogurt maker and a steamer -- and you can even saute food in it. It’s perfect for anyone who’s short on space in the kitchen and also wants to cook without having to babysit the stove.
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Shiny Objects
Typing Games
Open Minded
The 12 best tech gifts for the entertainer in your life
As long as you play with an open-minded group of people, Cards Against Humanity is an entertaining -- and affordable! -- diversion. It’s one of those fill-in-the-blanks type of games, where you apply the contents from a card in your hand to complete a selected statement, usually in dubious (but hilarious) taste. But, hey, just to prove the company isn’t actually mean-spirited, it’s doing some good with its Science Pack Expansion.
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Group Of Four
The 12 best tech gifts for the entertainer in your life
When you have your pals over for brunch or need some coffee to pair with your homemade desserts, skip the traditional automatic pot and go with a pour-over. Trust us -- it tastes way better. This Bodum model has enough capacity to fill a cup for each person in a group of four.
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Electronic Gifts
Latest Gadgets
Tech Gifts
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Engadget Holiday Gift Guide: The Entertainer - https://www.engadget.com/2016/11/28/the-12-best-tech-gifts-for-the-entertainer-in-your-life/
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Pocket Operator
Music Nerd
Teenage Engineering
Tech Innovation
Smart Speaker
Drum Machine
Vintage Drums
Making Music
Audiophile
12 gifts for music nerds
Hey, $400 is a big investment for headphones, but Sony’s latest wireless noise-canceling model make a compelling case for spending that much. In addition to touch controls on the outside of the earcup for play/pause, skipping tracks and volume adjustments, the MDR-1000X touts adjustable noise cancellation.
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Streaming Services
12 gifts for music nerds
Turntables and audiophile gear can add up quickly, but if you need a gift for the vinyl lover in your life, we suggest considering a subscription. One option is Vnyl, a service that ships out one record a month for $22 or three selections for $39. The company curates the selections based on personal music preferences from streaming services and social profiles before shipping them out.