Tag: GIFTS

Listen. If you're looking for Valentine's Day gift ideas for your significant other on this site, you're certifiably effing clueless. We're a tech blog! But we know it's hard to find Google, so get comfy and stay a while. Let us tell you exactly what not to get that girl or guy you managed to drag home without the help of Rohypnol, and perhaps you'll even cement yourself as their last-ditch ...

As writers and editors, we've got to be honest: Gift guides are one of our favorite things to do. We get to scan the Net, call in our contacts, dig through press releases, and do the shopping we've always wanted to do. However, as readers, we feel exactly the opposite. Suddenly every site is bombarding us with THE PERFECT GIFT GUIDE, 7 billion things that WE NEED TO BUY NOW, and they're ...

It's early December, the holidays are just around the corner, and you haven't even begun thinking about what gifts you're going to buy for your friends and family. Each day seems to bring a new diamond commercial and another blow-out holiday sale, but, for some reason, you can't muster up the energy to get off your couch and face the gauntlet of yuletide shopping. Before you know it, you're on a ...

In an effort to capitalize on the all-important holiday shopping season, eBay is rolling out a full slate of new features -- including a social networking-based buying option -- to its online marketplace. As the Wall Street Journal reports, a freshly redesigned eBay home page will soon offer recommendations to users based on their previous searches, as well as a new list of hot items currently ...

What's a great way to tear your child away from his PlayStation and get him outside? Why, with a giant robotic toy that will walk for him, of course! At a little over 5-feet tall and weighing over 400 lbs., the new 'Kid's Walker' 'Avatar'-esque robo suit isn't so much a toy as it is a recipe for carnage. Just plop your kid in the bot's seat, let him spend hours cruising around the neighborhood ...

Good husbands spend hours on end coming up with innovative ways to surprise their sweethearts with gifts. Stefan Magdalinski is a good husband. As Engadget reports, Stefan recently surprised his wife by giving her a frozen iPad, encased in chocolate, that he had smuggled into South Africa via London. He photo-documented the whole thing on his blog, and, judging from the snapshots, he seems to ...

Share If you're reading this, chances are it's because once again the second Sunday of May has crept up on you with nary a thought for dear old Ma, and now you're in a white-knuckled panic looking for something to show that you care more than you apparently do. But never fear, once again the trusty Internet -- that faithful refuge for poor planners and the absent-minded -- doth provide. We've ...

As my girlfriend racked her brain trying to figure out the perfect gift to give me on our five-year anniversary, she decided on two sure-fire tactics: make it kitschy, and make it by hand. The result is the mind-blowing 'Space Invaders' blanket you see after the break. Lovingly crocheted during her morning commutes over the past month or so, the blanket has surprisingly accurate representations ...

More often than not, animated GIFs are reserved for quick chuckles. Cat portals, face palms, and even the occasional girl punch, are this limited media format's bread and butter. But the current crop of digital artists are turning to this former Net-annoyance to create Web-based art. Sites like Rhizome, 8-Bit Today, and Nasty Nets dig through the deepest recesses of the Internet to find these ...

With Christmas fast approaching, we recently compiled a list of 70 Geeky Gifts Under $70, and unbelievably, we recently found a laptop that narrowly missed the cut. According to Techland, Cherrypal has released what might be the cheapest laptop on the planet. The 7-inch Cherrypal Africa costs a very frugal $99. But be aware, you're not getting the biggest, fastest, or most efficient machine ...

If your grandmother is like ours, she loves receiving Christmas cards in the mail each holiday season. She proudly displays them on the mantle until the calendar turns to January. While she loves each card, it's the ones with a special touch that she enjoys the most. But if she opened an envelope and found this card made by Chris Stevens, she truly wouldn't know what to do with it. According ...

We've all got that person on our list -- the one who's impossible to buy for. They've got everything they need and most of the stuff they want, which makes them a challenge for any gift giver. You could go the gift card route, but it's much more fun to get creative. We dug up 10 of the more unusual gifts around this year for people in all price ranges. ...

Soon, Facebook Gifts will complete its evolution from an annoying virtual trend to a legitimate shopping experience. That means bringing on third-party developers and yes, actual physical gifts. Inside Facebook reports that the social networking behemoth has decided to offer third-party gifts, which will include their respective developers' logos. More importantly, users will be able to actually ...

This Mother's Day, you could try to pick out a scarf, purse or pair of shoes that your mother would love. But Mom doesn't really need help with that. She already knows what she likes. As her nerdy child, you can best help by steering her to the tech products she doesn't know about that will make her life easier or more fun. Here are 14 gizmos that treat mothers right. Next >> ...

Proving once and for all that two totally unrelated franchises can be rolled into one gooey ball of profitable deliciousness, 'LEGO Rock Band' is a go. Set to launch this Holiday season on any console with a pulse -- PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and DS -- the game is a joint effort by TT Games, LEGO, MTV and Harmonix, the original creator of 'Rock Band.' Unsurprisingly, the games will ...