7 of the best tech gifts for Christmas
Ingenious speakers, brilliant earbuds, nifty note takers - our expert picks his top tech gifts.
Ingenious speakers, brilliant earbuds, nifty note takers - our expert picks his top tech gifts.
The £29.99 Styletech LED Wireless Speaker is quite something for the price.
A Bluetooth portable stereo speaker with a really decent sound, it also puts on an unbelievably garish and amusing psychedelic lightshow, which you can synchronise to the beat.
One of my favourite buys of 2025 is the Sangean ATS909X2, £239.95.
From the garden shed where I work, I’ve heard radio hams as distant as Australia using nothing more than its built-in telescopic aerial.
Drones are easy to fly, but model helicopters are devilishly difficult – you have to control pitch, roll, yaw, and throttle. But a surge of relatively easy-to-fly models are now out.
The RC Era C138, around £79.99, is a lot of fun.
My mum bought the superb hand-operated veg chopper Zyliss Blitzhacker on holiday in Switzerland in the early 1960s. I’ve always wanted one, but originals are expensive.
Zyliss still makes them, under the name Zick-Zick.
At around £22, the 2 Food Chopper might be the most affordable Swiss product ever made.
The size of a credit card, the Plaud, £169, can record 50 hours of speech, plus transcribe it and supply you with a bullet-point summary of what was said.
Evening classes will never be the same again.
Children are generally resistant to child versions of adult tech, but you can tell them truthfully that My First Camera 50, £109, is the real thing, just a little more user-friendly.
Shoots 20Mp stills and high-resolution 1080p video. Ages 5-10/12.
These new £269 earphones from a tiny New York startup have been far and away the best I’ve heard this year: expensive, but as good as models costing twice as much.
Or try their original model, which is also fantastic, for £111.
Exoskeletons may sound a bit science fiction, but some say they’re going to get increasingly popular. They attach round your waist and upper legs and give your walking or running a gentle, but significant, boost.
I used one on a long walk in steeply sloping woodland and was as puffed at the end as I would have been without motorised assistance – but had covered far more ground than I would have done without it.
The leading maker is Hypershell, whose models start at £789 and go up to the Ultra X at £1,599.
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