Barnes&Noble Holiday Gift Guide

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Barnes&Noble (BN) published a broad gift guide.
The BN Holiday Gift Guide offers savings of up to 45% on the DVDs, Music, Toys & Games and more. BN features a Gift Finder that will help shoppers find the best gifts for everyone on their list.
Every shopper receives free shipping on orders of $25 and BN Members receive a holiday bonus of FREE shipping on orders of $10 or more. Read more

Posted on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Holiday Gift Deals: Palm Pre & Pixi Both On Sale

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You're a Palm fan. Unfortunately, just like the company you love, you're broke as hell this Christmas season. Too broke to afford one of those fancy new Palm smartphones. At least, you were before Amazon.com started offering amazing deals on both the Pre and the Pixi. If you order now you can pick up a Palm Pre up for just $79.99 with a 2-year Sprint contract.

Posted on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:49:02 CST | by Robert Evans

Geek Gift Guide Available Now From ThinkGeek

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ThinkGeek, the premier shop for gadgets and geek gear, unveiled their comprehensive Holiday Shopping Guide.
The ThinkGeek Holiday Gift Center not only features gift ideas for male geeks, but also for female geeks and the kids of geek parents.

Examples of Geeky gifts for her include: the USB Aromatherapy Oil Burner, Edible Wild Hibiscus Flowers, Dissolving Travel Toiletries and Colored Flame Tea Lights.
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Posted on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

People Want Practical Gifts This Holiday Season

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Put away those Faberge eggs! Hide the fancy jewelry! Send the $5,000 massage chair back to the factory! The holiday season, usually a time to receive expensive, impractical luxury items, is going to be a bit different this year. In light of the recession, people are starting to ask for the things they need this year, rather than the things they want. A recent survey by Black & Decker and Zogby International showed that 70% of consumers plan to ask for necessities over luxuries this season.

Considering the crappy state of the economy, that's not hard to understand. If you're unemployed and freezing, a sweater makes a better gift than a Zune HD. The survey did show that about 17% of people wanted an even split of practical and luxurious gifts. While Black & Decker used this announcement as a way to push their ReadyWrench, cordless canister vacuum, and other practical gifts, I'm more interested in what this means for the tech industry.

Posted on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:52:09 CST | by Robert Evans

Hot Early Amazon Black Friday Wii Bundle Deal With $50 Gift Card

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Amazon beats the latest Walmart Holiday Value Bundle deal on a Wii and the Wii Fit Board.
When you buy the Nintendo Wii console along with a Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board you get a free $50 Gift Card. Currently the Wii sells for 199.99 and the Wii Fit Plus with Balance board sells for only $89.99. The overall cost is $289.98. If you subtract the $50 gift card value you get this Wii bundle for $239.98 on Amazon.
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Posted on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:26:28 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Early Black Friday Walmart BlackBerry $100 Gift Card Deal Is Much Better Online

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Walmart is now offering their new early Black Friday deal on BlackBerry phones not only in stores, but also online. So you do not have to step out into the cold or miss an Amazon Gold Box deal and still can get a $100 Walmart Gift Card with the purchase of a new BlackBerry smartphone with 2-year contract.
The important thing here is that the online BlackBerry deals are different and actually much better than in stores. If you really want to make a deal on a BlackBerry buy it on Walmart online.
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Posted on Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Best Buy Deal Of The Day Apple iPod Touch With $20 Gift Card

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Best Buy published their new Deal Of The Day for Saturday, November 14th on their online shop. Today's Deal is featuring the new Apple iPod touch 8GB bundled with a $20 Gift Card.
The only little problem is that Best Buy lists as Reg. Price $219.99 for the 8GB iPod touch. Best Buy itself lists the iPod touch 8GB on another product page on sale for $189.99 and Reg. Price of $199.99.

So something a bit wrong, but you save still $10 with this deal.
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Posted on Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:01:04 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Ebay Daily Deal Features Daily Low Priced Electronics And Gifts

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Here is another place to find great deals on electronics and other gifts during the Holiday shopping season. eBay is offering several Daily Deals each day on this page.

Tomorrow the eBay Daily Deal will feature the Guitar Hero World Tour Band Kit for the Sony PS2.
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Posted on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Early Walmart Black Friday Features BlackBerry Phones With $100 Gift Card

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Walmart just announced their next round of early Black Friday deals starting this Saturday November 14th.
This time you can get a free $100 Walmart Gift card when you buy any BlackBerry phone Walmart offers with a new two-year contract.
Walmart sells BlackBerry phones from all four major carriers: AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless.
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Posted on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:37:54 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Apple Store Features Apple Holiday Gift Guide

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Apple updated their online store in time for your holiday shopping. Apple highlights their engraving option on the iPod family as well as custom configured iMacs.
Apple also offers Holiday themed iTunes gift cards. You can also choose general purpose Apple gift cards or an iPhone gift card.

The Apple Store Holiday Gift Guide features accessories and software that all come with free shipping.
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Posted on Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:19:53 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

1,000 Gifts for Under $10 Available On Entertainment Earth

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Entertainment Earth, a retailer of action figures, bobble heads, toys, gifts, and collectibles, is offering over 1,000 items, each priced under $10 in time for your holiday gift shopping.
The limited-time offer includes hand-picked toys, action figures, comic books, bobble heads, games, and more from dozens of the world's most popular brands. From Barbie to Buffy to Batman and The Beatles… Sesame Street to The Simpsons to Star Trek and Star Wars… there's something for just about everyone.
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Posted on Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Asus UL50AG-A2 And UL80Vt-A1 Notebooks With $100 Gift Card Offered On Amazon

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Gift card bundle deals seem to be a hot trend again this holiday shopping season. Walmart is offering the Xbox 360 Arcade with a $100 gift card tomorrow and Amazon just launched a gift card deal on three Asus notebooks from their UL series.
You get a free $100 Amazon gift card with the purchase of the Asus UL50AG-A2 or Asus UL80Vt-A1. If you buy the Asus UL20A-A1 you get a $75 Amazon gift card.
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Posted on Fri, 6 Nov 2009 04:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Holiday Gift Idea: The Beatles USB Discography

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Alright, so the remastered Beatles discography still isn't available on iTunes. Honestly, at this point it looks like that might never happen. Thankfully, EMI and Apple Corps have found a way to bring us digital copies of everyone's favorite British foursome. Sure, $280 for an Apple-shaped USB stick filled FLAC and MP3 versions of all the remastered CDs seems a bit pricey but, as Gizmodo notes that's only $60 more than you pay for the new CD set.

For you audiophiles out there, the FLAC quality is listed as 44.1Khz 24 bit, and the MP3s are 320 Kbps. Now, the bad news. 'Only' 30,000 of these special edition sets are being made. They go on sale November 8th, but you can pre-order now at TheBeatles.com.

Posted on Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:16:17 CST | by Robert Evans

GummyDevil Is The World's Largest Gummy Bear And A Fun Gift

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The GummyDevil is a mutant Gummy Bear and at 9-inches is apparently the world's largest gummy bear. You can actually eat the GummyDevil. The huge candy has 12,600 calories and makes the original German Gummi bear look very, very tiny.
The GummyDevil gummy bear is the equivalent of 1,400 regular sized Gummy Bears and weighs 5lbs (2.25kg).

This giant gummy bear is actually a very cool gift idea. Read more

Posted on Wed, 4 Nov 2009 01:48:43 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Michael Jackson: This Is It DVD Is The Gift For Jackson Fans

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The movie Michael Jackson: This Is It is currently still in theaters, but will soon only be available on DVD.
This Is It is not released yet, but is already #3 on the Amazon Movie bestseller list. You can pre-order Michael Jackson: This Is It on Amazon.com for $17.99 now. The shipping date is still open, but it is for sure before Christmas.
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Posted on Tue, 3 Nov 2009 10:03:26 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

$20 eGift Card With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Available On Walmart

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 launches on November 10th. Walmart has a great deal offering a $20 eGift card with the purchase of Call of Duty:Modern Warfare 2.
Which basically means you pay only $39.82 instead of the $59.82 price for the highly anticipated game for the Xbox 360 and the Sony PS3.
The eGift card can only be used online. More details about the Walmart Bonus eGift card Video game deals are available on Walmart. Read more

Posted on Sun, 1 Nov 2009 11:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Top 10 Home Electronics Holiday Gift Tips

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It is that time of the year again - the Holiday Shopping season is about to start. Like every year Black Friday will be the beginning of Holiday shopping for most people.
Just as we did last year (Top 100 Tech Gifts 2008) I4U News presents our huge Top 100 Holiday Gift Guide, featuring tons of cool electronics, gadgets and toys to give to your loved ones or treat yourself.

Like last year we have 10 categories, each featuring top 10 gifts including Notebooks and Netbooks, Gadget and Toys, Video Games, Video Game Hardware, TVs, Cameras, Video Cameras, Portable Media Players, Home Electronics, and Mobile Phones.
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Posted on Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

ToysRUs Biggest Big Book Holiday Gift Catalog Previews Today

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ToysRUs announced their highly anticipated Big Book Toy catalog for the 2009 Holidays. The 80 page ToysRUs Big book will arrive this weekend. The online version will go live on Sunday November 1st on ToysRUs.com. ToysRUs will give a special preview of the ToysRUs Biggest Big Book to fans of the official ToysRUs Facebook fan page today.
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Posted on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Cool Christmas Gift: Molecular Gastronomy Starter Set

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Finding great gifts is a hard challenge, especially if you're looking for something inexpensive, but also unique.
Think Geek has what I think is a great Holiday gift that satisfies the above requirements: The Molecular Gastronomy Starter Set.
Molecular Cuisine has been around for a while. It is merging chemistry with cooking leading to unique taste experiences. Read more

Posted on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Gift Tip 10: Brite-View BV-2500 Wireless HDTV Kit

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The Brite-view BV-2500 wireless HDTV Kit is comprised of a transmitter (BV-2500T) and a receiver (BV-2500R). The transmitter and receiver in this kit allow you to wirelessly transmit uncompressed high-definition video from any HD video device to your HDTV anywhere in your home. This unique feature of the Brite-view BV-2500 wireless HDTV kit eliminates the need for messy audio/video cable connections and offers a maximum range of 70 feet. You can connect your Blu-ray player, set-top box, game console, DVR and AV receiver into the Air HD (BV-2500) HD transmitter, and have the HDTV equipped with a matching BV-2500 receiver. This allows you to have all of your AV sources in a separate room from the actual display.
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Posted on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:46:19 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Gift Tip 9: Logitech Squeezebox Radio

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The Logitech Squeezebox Radio is designed to be simple and in sync with the user’s home network for Internet radio and DRM-free iTunes collections. The Logitech Squeezebox Radio looks to pack most of the functionality of the Boom into an even smaller package; that means you can stream your MP3 collections, plus thousands of internet radio stations and music services like Rhapsody, Napster, Pandora, Sirius, and Last.fm. It looks more appealing than the Boom with the addition of the color screen and the capability to display album art, artist/track information, and Flickr slideshows.
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Posted on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:39:37 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr