Holiday Gift Guide 2011: Our 20 favorite tech gifts

by ZDNet | October 26, 2011 8:13am PDT | Image 1 of 19

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Point and shoot now, focus later

What good is it to have the world's most seasoned line-up of product and IT experts if they can’t help you pick out holiday presents? With that in mind, we tapped our crack crew to help us help you find the year’s best tech gift ideas.

Violet Blue, Pulp Tech: This slick little camera might look like just another novelty camera, but Lytro does what most people want in a point and shoot nowadays: the ability to just point and shoot, and worry about focusing and brightness later. Read more about it if you want to find out the tech behind what makes this possible (spoiler: it's Lytro's software), but it's my top pick for the grab-and-go camera fanbase. It's ultra-basic, doesn't shoot video and isn't big on megapixels. Think of it like a really slick bite-sized snack for easy-peasy lifeblogging, and you've got your toy.
See: Lytro
Price: Starts at $399
Gift Pick by: Violet Blue, Pulp Tech

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Aerowind 14th Nov

I love Razer products, but the Switchblade UI is a mistake. Sure it's shiny and nice to show off to folks, but when doing, you know, gaming, it's horrible. It acts as a touchpad, but nobody would use one for gaming. It has an LCD for information, but you can't spare to look at your keyboard while gaming. It has specially programmable hotkeys, but you can't reach them because your hand should most definitely be on a mouse.

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Netteligent 15th Nov

Too expensive thin laptops for Windows. You have to outsmart Apple, not catching up.

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Netteligent 15th Nov

No more netbook, please. Apple iPAD and tablets are much more fun and productive.

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wr230746 Updated - 16th Nov

WARNING: Avoid the Acer Aspire One! My workplace ordered over 100 of these and the quality control issues are rampant! Bad hard drives, shoddy keyboards, and even a few with bad displays (dead pixels/lines/color-issues). Couple that with Acer's WORST-in-the-industry customer support and I can't figure out why anyone would recommend these. Pick a different netbook! Try the Dell Mini, or get a tablet.

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iPod? Really?!

vancevep 19th Nov

Come on... I own an iPhone 4 and an iPad2, so I can ask this question. Why, for $199, would you recommend the iPod as a means for escaping data charges? For that price, you are tethered to a wifi connection for data... why not get a Kindle for the same price and a much larger screen is you don't mind having to rely on wifi for your data connection? The iPod's screen is just too small to be a tablet competitor. The iPhone has the same small screen, but that's much more acceptable on a TRULY mobile device such as a smartphone... especially since the retina display makes viewing things on the smaller screen much more enjoyable than its counterparts of the same dimensions.