luni, 29 noiembrie 2010

Holiday Gift Guide: Best Gadgets for Families

The frugalness haw meliorate than it was terminal year, but some families are intellection "flat screens for everyone" low the Christmastime tree this year. If you're intellection of splurging on electronics, ground not acquire something the full kinsfolk crapper enjoy? Here are a some of my suggestions.

1. Sony TV with Google TV: Google TV is essentially an cushy artefact to move on the Internet, see the web, and check online videos -- every on your high-definition television. And Sony is the prototypal consort to physique it into the company's stylish distinction up of HDTVs. 

Imagine intelligent for an program of Modern Family and uncovering results from ABC.com, Hulu.com and your possess DVR -- with the choice to check some digit of the three. You crapper garner from models ranging in filler from 24 to 46 inches and prices from $599 to $1,399. 

2. Microsoft XBOX Kinect: Nothing brings the kinsfolk unitedly same a stimulating mettlesome of living-room beach volleyball. That's meet digit of the calorie-burning games you crapper intend with Microsoft's highly addictive Kinect, a full-body recording mettlesome someone that's same an modern edition of the four-year-old Nintendo Wii. 

With the Kinect, there are no buttons to push: Your embody becomes the someone as you jump, punch, fruit and diversion your artefact crossways a wide-ranging assemble of motion-controlled games. The Kinect uses a multi-camera device that scans your embody and attaches to your underway Xbox 360. You crapper also acquire the full ordered up as a bundle, Xbox included.

3. Kodak Playtouch Video Camera: I've been a bounteous follower of Kodak's past ammo of Zi8 recording cameras, which are filled with more features than those tiny Flip cameras. Kodak has scored added impact in my aggregation with the Playtouch

Families dispense a ton of video, after every -- newborns, football games and weddings to study meet a few. This camera lets you modify your HD videos correct on the touch-screen programme and deal it straightforward onto the cyberspace via Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and more with Kodak's ultimate Share button. That effectuation you don't hit to enter the camera to a machine to do the redaction -- and let's grappling it, families never intend around to that, do we? 

4. Dell Inspiron One 2305: This is the ordinal hebdomad in a bed I've included a Dell machine in my pass heritage guide: The consort seems to hit something for everyone, especially in this PC. The Inspiron One 2305 has everything a kinsfolk needs in a bag recreation computer, every enwrapped unitedly finished a bonny touch-screen design.

The programme reminds me of those touch-screen media stations at Barnes and Noble stores, which permit you fling finished albums and start the digit you poverty to center to. From photos to games, that aforementioned contact organisation carries over to the another apps on the Inspiron One. Imagine it this way: Mom crapper achievement up to the Dell and contact the concealment to start a recipe, Junior walks by and touches the concealment to endeavor an album, or Dad stops by to aggregation a flight. 

5. Drobo FS from Data Robotics: Cloud technology is the large abstract in Silicon Valley correct now, a artefact to accumulation individualized files, photos, and aggregation absent from your concern on someone else's Internet-accessible servers. But what if you could create a darken exclusive your home? You crapper with my selection back-up drive, the Drobo FS. 

Drobo lets the whole kinsfolk backwards up to digit bicentric figure using the family's bag network. Simply inspire and modify the 60 photos you meet took of the child onto the Drobo. It's unbelievably cushy to ordered up, too, and every your individualized files are fortified because your aggregation is ransomed crossways binary hornlike drives exclusive the Drobo: If digit fails you don't hit to vexation most losing accumulation on it.

If this every sounds a lowercase technical, meet advert that the Drobo is essentially idiot-proof back-up -- which haw be the prizewinning heritage you crapper provide your whole family. 

Clayton moneyman is a Fox and Friends patron and the school mentality behindhand the Gadgets and Games show. Follow Clayton's adventures online on Twitter @ClaytonMorris (where he promises to essay to respond every your heritage questions) and by datum his regular updates at his blog.

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