Six awesome high-tech gift ideas for grads
Mon May 19, 2008 4:39PM EDT
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Ah, graduation. Your ungrateful children probably don't feel that shelling out tens of thousands of dollars for four-plus years of higher education will be reward enough for actually making it through the rigors of high school. Like it or not, you'll need to pony up for a graduation present. Got a tech fan in the household? Consider one of these snazzy gift ideas.
Still the reigning king of everyday laptops, the FZ is as powerful as anything in its class, doesn't break the bank, and looks pretty good, too. Campus will be crawling with kids and their MacBooks. Junior can make a real statement by proudly booting up his Sony instead.
Why worry about higher education when YouTube promises immediate stardom for anyone with only the barest of talents? If your kid can rock 100% on an expert-level song on Rock Band or simply knows how to fall down in epic style, he'll need a nice camera to record it all. This Canon's stills look great thanks to image stabilization, and it shoots movies in glorious widescreen.
GoldLantern VisorTalkHands-free is already the law in many states and it's about to become so in California, where the crackdown on talking on your cell phone while driving begins on July 1. If Junior's going to spend a lot of time driving to and from college this fall, best get him legal. The VisorTalk works reasonably well and simply clips to your visor, working as a Bluetooth speakerphone for his cell. It's super affordable, and it has the great advantage of ensuring your grad doesn't look like the campus idiot wandering around the quad with a headset attached to his ear.
Wait a month or two on this one. The current iPhone is set to be replaced next month by the next generation, which reportedly will offer 3G speed and real GPS. Send your kid off to college with the next-gen iPhone and he'll instantly outshine his dorm-mates who foolishly bought the first, pokey-slow version.
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Give your grad a stylish way to carry all this gear instead of forcing him into another nylon backpack. The canvas SOLO fits in stylishly in any academic or even neo-professional environment, and can be found for a mere 50 bucks.
Seriously, what else is he going to do all summer?
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2 Posted by magpagbst on Tue May 20, 2008 2:20AM EDT Report Abuse
number 6 . . . either a gun and/or a bullet-proof vest . . . the high school grad will incontrovertibly need these as he/she heads off to college . . . there is probably another nutball planning to outdo the nutball gunman at virginia tech . ..
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3 Posted by ponchoswife1104 on Tue May 20, 2008 8:36AM EDT Report Abuse
@magpagbst, that is so true. the way things operate today, you don't know what to expect when you head off to college. its a shame it has to be like that, but these are definitely the sign of the times. so, there i said i agree gift number 6 should be a bullet proof vest with .25 stuck on your waist or in your pocketbook.
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4 Posted by wanhashim on Tue May 20, 2008 9:05AM EDT Report Abuse
All of the high-tech gift ideas being mentioned allows the grads to mentally and physically prepared for college.
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5 Posted by birdman_5589 on Tue May 20, 2008 9:22AM EDT Report Abuse
Another great tech gift would be the Livescribe smart pen. It tracks your hand strokes which lets you tansfer your notes onto your computer. It also has records audio that will playback in conjuntion with the notes you were writing at that time. To really see how cool it is you must check out the products website. www.livescribe.com
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1 Posted by magpagbst on Tue May 20, 2008 2:20AM EDT Report Abuse
number 6 . . . either a gun and/or a bullet-proof vest . . . the high school grad will incontrovertibly need these as he/she heads off to college . . . there is probably another nutball planning to outdo the nutball gunman at virginia tech . ..