RAW DEALS: Top 9 awesome deals for the nerd in your life this holiday season
November 20, 2015
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Whether you're a Star Wars fan or a Trekkie, or you lean more toward comics or old school gaming, everyone needs something to get down and nerdy with in 2016. Maybe it's for you or the nerd that you love? Regardless, you'll want to add these inexpensive bits of genius to your shopping list this holiday season.
Your favorite Goonie might be a Mikie, a Data or a Chunk but they all have one thing in common: they fight corporate power and they never say die.
For the time traveler in your life, the Doc told us "what makes time travel possible" is the Flux Capacitor. If you've got a smartphone, Kindle, iPad and kids with gadgets of their own, making sure you've got everything charged can be a pain. This will do the trick and maybe if you reach 88 mph all your devices will be charged in the future!
Fancy HD or 3D projectors cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars, but this is a more affordable solution. This mini projector lets you plug your smartphone in and project a video on anything you want. There are a few others out there that are cheaper and made of cardboard, but the reviews for them are terrible. Spring the extra $30 and go with something that is verified to work and you don't have to spend over $100 for it.
The worst thing is waking up at 4am and you have to pee, amiright? No one wants to turn the light on because you know it'll mess up your night vision so when they are off again you'll whack your leg on the end of the bed on your way back. Not only does this fix all of that it can be a fun surprise this holiday season for houseguests!
These are one heck of a deal. If you buy a fancy Nikon or Canon camera, you're looking at anywhere from $300 to $800. But here is one clever way to get into photography the affordable way. The easy design clips over your phone camera to give you either a fisheye, wide-angle or a micro shot.
We just celebrated Back to the Future Day on October 21, 2015 and while we might not have a real hoverboard and self-lacing sneakers, you can give the nerd in your life the opportunity to be their own McFly.
It isn't just footwear when you're talking about Mr. Spock. The almost Vulcan grip holds these in place as his ears extend from your calves. A perfect deal that will encourage you to live long and prosper.
This made it on Amazon's tech deal of the day list last week and it isn't hard to see why. For the little photographer in your life, an expensive camera might be premature. Go with something durable and waterproof like this. You can shoot both photos and videos as well as stop-motion and time-lapse. It's almost like the affordable GoPro but for children. Genius!
This is the greatest thing you'll ever purchase. Compact fluorescent lights are good for the environment, but so are LED lights. The benefits with LEDs, however, is that they can change color. That's exactly what Hue does, only they don't just change color, they change it through wireless technology that allows you thousands of different lighting "scenes." They connect to apps on your smartphone and can do anything from programming your lights to go off and on, cycle through the rainbow of colors and there is even an app that changes and flashes the lights along to the music that it hears playing. If you've got Siri Voice Control or Amazon Echo, Hue syncs with both systems so you can even give voice commands to tell "Alexia, turn living room lights on" or even "Alexa, turn living room lights to 50 percent."
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