Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to all of our readers, your families and friends.

Here’s hoping that under your Christmas tree is packed with gadgets!

We’ve put together a list of gadget gifts for the gizmo-lover in your life. These aren’t just great for the Christmas holiday season but any time of year. For the most part, we’ve tried to stay away from the usual and obvious electronic gadgets like MP3 players, phones and cameras, but instead bring you a variety of neat electronic gift ideas and in most cases useful items that are still worth their salt as far as gadgets go.

Perplexus

Let’s start with some toys/puzzles/games. Perplexus is a spherical 3-D maze with a ball bearing that you to need to navigate around a maze. Simply to learn, hard to solve and master!
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Rubik 360

Professor Rubik is still inventing puzzles and games after all these years. His latest is the Rubik 360 which is also a sphere like Perplexus, but you need to get 6 balls into their correct spots. Not so easy now, is it?!
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Pet Fish Training System

Got pet fish/goldfish? Want them to do more than just swim around waiting for food? Train ‘em. Yup, train your goldfish! Get them to do tricks – fetch, go through tubes, play soccer and more!
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iTech Portable Solar Charger

Now onto something that can save you in a pinch and helps you do your part to be more environment-friendly – a portable solar charger. This portable solar charger from iTech holds 1200mAh of power and with its adapters can be used to charge up most of your electronic gizmos like your MP3 player, phone and GPS. [Our Full Review]
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Honestech VHS to DVD System

Something that most of us have to face periodically in a world of ever-changing technology is that upgrading our technology means converting from one media type to another. Now that VHS video tapes are essentially dead, how do you convert them to DVD or get them on your computer. The VHS to DVD hardware/software combo product from Honestech helps you do just that. And it’s not a 1-trick pony either! [Our Full Review]
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Auto-Loading Screwdriver

No more losing those screwdriver bits, but instead having the right tool for the job at the touch of a button. This screwdriver is autoloading. That’s right. Pull back the handle, select the bit size you want, push back down and you’re ready to go.
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Watts Up? Power Meter

Electric bill too high? Then you need a Watts Up? power meter to figure out which appliances/devices are your power-hogs. The Watts Up? meter will calculate how much these are costing you. [Our full write-up]
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Taylor Digital Measuring Cup

Our favorite kitchen gadget that we saw recently – the Taylor digital measuring cup displays how much liquid or dry ingredients are in the cup on an LCD screen embedded in the handle. Genius.
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Powerlung Lung Capacity Trainer

For the fitness gadget enthusiast in your family/friend circle, get them the Powerlung. It’s a lung capacity machine that claims to expand your lung power by providing resistance. [Our full write-up]
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CyberClean Electronics Cleaner

Inexpensive, yet so versatile. Silly Putty of course! In this case, it has been adopted for use as a computer and electronics cleaner. It can be used to lift dirt and particles away from your keyboard, cracks, grills, fans and much more.
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amazon.com‘s Kindle eReader

We’re going to close with something that is way more popular, but is most definitely a top-notch gadget and its whole industry (eBook Readers or eReaders) is gaining ground by the day. We’re choosing the amazon.com Kindle because they’ve really broken through to the average consumer with their product, not to mention the strides they’ve made in offering eBook versions of so many books in the Kindle Store. Of course, they’re not the only ones, but they’re certainly #1 right now. Choose between the Kindle and larger Kindle DX.
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In case one of these cool nerd gift ideas doesn’t strike your fancy, we have thousands more gizmos featured under the covers. Just do a quick search:

Strangely enough, drugstore.com has all kinds of stuff that would make great presents. Electric shavers, HoMedics products, bath & skincare products, even home automation stuff. They have quite a variety of deals, including free shipping going on now too.

Smarthome has a nicely organized set of gift ideas for you. Before you dismiss Smarthome as just a store for home automation goodies, think again. They have thousands of very useful gadgets for not just your home, but your pets, traveling, the garden, and for your very own personal comfort. One nice thing about Smarthome is that they personally test products before they include it for sale on their site – we know, we’ve actually seen them in action!

Order quickly (and enough!) and you’ll get free shipping, as well as discounts starting at $15 up to $60 off your total order.

More TV and DVR ideas here. Both DirecTV and Dish Network have deals this holiday season. Take a look-see, as they both have some nice receivers with DVRs built in, HD as an option, and are offering some great deals for signing up and getting new service.

Got a gamer or computing nerd in the house? Then you need to know about Newegg. They have what you need – games, accessories, every computer part you need, even TVs! Take a look at their Stocking Stuffers deals which incidentally change constantly, so you’ll always be surprised.

Here’s another great selection of gift ideas, this time hosted by Best Buy.
Time to stop procrastinating and get shopping!

Ok, so you just got a TiVo from the last suggestion, but now you’ve got to watch all of that recorded material on something good. No, something great. Something big. Something in a flat-screen: LCD or Plasma!

Both LCDs and Plasmas have come way down in price over the last few years. After all, you can find deals for 42″ screens for well under $1000 now.

We like the 52″ LCD Samsung pictured, but you can get your choice of LCD or Plasma. If you can afford it, then try to get a 1080p TV and heck if you have the room, get something that is at least 37″!

Once you start watching TV using a DVR, you know you can’t go back. It beats watching live TV by oh, at least 1 million miles!

If you’ve got a friends or family who don’t have a DVR (TiVo or built into their cable/satellite box, or a homebrew system or something similar), then this can be a great gift.

Right now TiVo is offering a deal of 3 months FREE with a subscription.

A brand new TiVo Series2â„¢ Dual Tuner DVR is $149.99 or a brand new TiVo HD DVR is $299.99.

In case you didn’t know, Dell sells way more than just their computers, primarily electronics, gadgets, and computer accessories, but as you well know, that’s a ton of stuff! Anyway, they’ve done a nice job of putting together a nice collection of gadgets sorted by price.

There are 3 price ranges: under $100, under $200, under $300 and everything else above that which they are cheekily calling “Ultimate gifts”. Products include everything from USB Flash drives, cameras, monitors, printers, MP3 players, laptops, GPS all the way to high-end big screen TVs.

Dell’s Hot Gift Ideas