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Gallery Tour: The Ultimate Holiday Tech Gift Guide

If you can't find just the right practical, frivolous, cool, geeky, pricey, affordable tech gift from these dozen gadgets, don't worry. There's more.
By David Grober, Contributor
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The Parrot AR Drone is a frivolous, aggressive toy. But it is a frivolous, aggressive toy for the smarty-pants in your life. See more Offbeat Gadgets, Toys and Tech from ZDNet's Holiday Tech Gift Guide 2010

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The Nikon lens travel mugs and thermos has an easy-pour, spring loaded stopper as well as a cap/cup with a handle that looks like the lens tripod mount. See more Camera-lovers gifts for under $50 from ZDNet's Holiday Tech Gift Guide 2010

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What if price is no object? If you're willing to wait, you can sign up for Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, which will be offering suborbital space rides from $200,000 and up.

See more Insanely Expensive Holiday Gifts from ZDNet's Holiday Tech Gift Guide 2010

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At around $60, the Logitech C510 HD webcam is an inexpensive upgrade for laptops (or desktops) that lack an integrated Webcam or have an older VGA camera.

See more Top tech gifts under $100 from ZDNet's Holiday Tech Gift Guide 2010

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Sit your cooler next to your sofa, and with a metal bottle opener on the side of this Universal Beer Remote Control, you’ll hardly ever have to get up this winter.

See more Wacky gadget presents from ZDNet's Holiday Tech Gift Guide 2010

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Prefer a substantial-feeling camcorder that’s still pocketable? The pistol-grip style body of the Sony Bloggie MHS-CM5 is a good choice.

See more Top camcorders under $250 from ZDNet's Holiday Tech Gift Guide 2010

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It's still hard to find a better deal than the Pentax K-x.

See more Top digital SLR cameras from ZDNet's Holiday Tech Gift Guide 2010

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The first Blu-ray player with Google TV baked in, the Sony Internet TV Blu-ray Disc player costs a bundle, but for the extra $100 over a Logitech Revue Google TV box, you get Blu-ray capabilities.

See more Blu-ray & Streaming Video Players from ZDNet's Holiday Tech Gift Guide 2010

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The Garmin Forerunner 205 is a fantastic wrist-mounted GPS receiver offering all the accuracy and sensitivity of bulkier devices.

See more GPS navigation devices from ZDNet's Holiday Tech Gift Guide 2010

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Of the four models Sony just started offering, the 40-inch NSX-40GT1 may be the most intriguing of the lot in terms of price and screen size.

See more Best HDTVs from ZDNet's Holiday Tech Gift Guide 2010

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The Alienware M11X's aggressive design—complete with customizable AlienFX lighting–isn’t for everyone, but no other laptop offers this much power in such a portable package.

See more Laptop computers from ZDNet's Holiday Tech Gift Guide 2010

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The hottest phones this holiday season for a couple of carriers will be the new Microsoft Windows Phone 7 devices and the Samsung Focus is the top dog.

See more Smartphones from ZDNet's Holiday Tech Gift Guide 2010

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